Deadline: 12-Mar-23
UN Women is soliciting proposals from civil society organizations (CSOs) and women’s organizations to enhance their capacities to respond to gender based violence (GBV).
The programme intends to increase upstream policy interventions and maximize impact by capitalising on existing collaborations with UN agencies, national and international humanitarian actors. The programme is aimed at developing synergies across the humanitarian-development nexus, ensuring that women and girls protection needs are met through coordinated multi-sectoral response based on survivor centered approach and by strengthening government leadership and ownership role in addressing GBV and Gender inequality.
Under this joint programme, policy and technical advice will be provided to the Kurdistan Regional Government to strengthen its policy framework for combating violence against women and improve its multi-sectoral GBV services for women survivors of GBV.
The joint programme directly contributes to:
- Iraq’s national priorities as articulated in Iraq’s vision in the Sustainable Development Plan 2030,
- Iraq’s National Action Plan 1325,
- KRI National Strategy to Confront Violence Against Women in Kurdistan 2017-2027 and
- the National Strategy for the Development of Women in Kurdistan region 2016-2027.
The joint programme overarching results seek to demonstrate linkages between mutually reinforcing results and their contribution to the protection of women and girls from GBV. The programme, grounded on human rights and gender equality principles, also contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2019-2024 priorities. The results and their related indicators capture the full range of support in the achievement of the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In particular, the contribution will be made towards SDG 3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages), SDG 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls), and SDG 17 (strengthen global partnerships to support and achieve the ambitious targets of the 2030 Agenda, bringing together national governments, the international community, civil society, the private sector and other actors).
The programme will deploy a three-fold strategy:
- Capacity development of targeted institutions and duty bearers;
- Policy advocacy at institutional level to mobilize institutions for the coordinated multi sectoral response to GBV and at the policy level to support policy environment for the integration of GBV in policies, strategies, and Government programs;
- Knowledge management to generate evidence for better planning and programing, through baseline surveys, GBV data collection, monitoring, and evaluation.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be (Min. $70,000 – Max. $80,000) per partner.
- Timeframe: Start date and end date for completion of required services/results
- Upon signature of contract – 31 August 2023
Key Activities
Key activities to be conducted, include:
- Develop an assessment of the institutional capacity needs/gaps assessment to respond to GBV of Ministry of Justice and Council of Judges in the KRI in relation to GBV cases;
- Provide Ministry of Justice (MOJ) with technical advice and support to address protection gaps in laws in the KRI related to SGBV;
- Provide orientation sessions for 100 justice sector professionals in the KRI region to promote women’s legal rights, and the rights of GBV survivors.
- Any additional innovative suggestions or activities that fall under the scope of each output will be considered as optional but are welcomed.
Competencies
In the selection of partners, the following competencies will be considered:
- Soundness of technical competency described in the approach to the outcome/outputs.
- Organizations with a track record of working on women’s rights and gender equality and delivering results for women’s rights.
- Capacity to deliver expected results: governance and management competency, and financial and administrative competency.
- Relevance of the mandate and the role of the organization to implement expected results and to contribute to the sustainability of said results.
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