Deadline: 4-Aug-22
The United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) Initiative, Trinidad and Tobago is inviting applications for Organizational Capacity building of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities with specific focus on women and other underrepresented groups the interested Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) legally registered in Trinidad and Tobago, including non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations and Civil Society organizations.
The purpose of this project is to build the organizational capacity of OPDs with specific focus on women and other underrepresented groups. Training will include change management, advocacy, budgeting, leadership, communications and proposal writing.
Objectives
- Organizational Capacity building of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities with specific focus on women and other underrepresented groups.
- Training to include change management, advocacy, budgeting, leadership, communications and proposal writing.
Focus Areas
This second phase of the project will focus on strengthening mechanisms for the effective participation and inclusion of PWDs through:
- Developing and piloting a mechanism for the inclusion of PWDs to enable their active participation in legislation development and amendment processes by the establishment of a legislative review panel and the development of guidelines and a checklist.
- Improving access to rehabilitation and assistive technology programmes by evaluating the existing system and developing a national plan aimed at improving access at the community level.
- Developing a standardised methodology for collecting reliable disability data across sectors.
- Improving disability mainstreaming within the UN’s collective response to the SDGs through the MSDF 2022-2023 Trinidad and Tobago country implementation plan.
Duration: Training should be conducted over the period September 2022 to June 2023 with a minimum of two Workshops. In the proposal, the organization should indicate their proposed means for delivering the capacity building sessions.
Competencies
Organizations wishing to apply, should meet the following requirements and competencies:
- Be a registered civil society organization including Non-Profit Organizations, Faith-Based Organizations and Civil Society Organization (Non-registered organizations can apply as an Associate Partner to a registered entity.)
- Be registered within the United Nations Partner Portal.
- Possess extensive experience in organizational capacity building. Preference will be given to those organizations who have previously engaged OPDs and persons with disabilities.
- Possess Extensive experience in organizational capacity building in the public and private sector with specific emphasis on training in proposal writing, change management, advocacy, budgeting, leadership and communications.
- Project management experience would be an asset.
- Possess a high capacity to foster partnerships and coordinate with other stakeholders
- Be registered by the relevant bodies
- Previous experience working with UN agencies and persons with disabilities is an asset but not mandatory.
- Trainers should have a strong command of the English language and be able to communicate effectively with diverse audiences. Trainers should also be equipped with the necessary tools to deliver capacity building to participants with varying disabilities e.g. Sign Language interpreter, Braille, etc.
For more information, visit https://caribbean.unfpa.org/en/vacancies/call-proposals-organizational-capacity-building-organizations-persons-disabilities