Deadline: 18-Apr-22
Applications are invited for the Empowering Women Living with HIV for Solidarity and Secure Livelihoods grant program.
With the HIV outbreak in 2015 which got 280 people including 40 children infected, Women (especially those who got infected by HIV) in Roka commune along with the community as a whole falls into a more vulnerable status and challenging livelihood condition.
Under the first and second phase of the project supported by UNWomen, women affected by the HIV outbreak in Roka commune have already developed mutual support groups and increasingly demonstrate capacity to identify and seek solutions to shared problems, including participating in local planning processes.
Priorities
The proposed project for 2021, builds on two previous phases of implementation, therefore the project design should describe how the proposed project will work towards the achievement of the overall objective that aims to consolidate the solidarity of the women’s groups and to support members in developing leadership and climate change resilience skills, which they have identified as a priority issue. It should also address the following:
- Climate change adaptation capacity for affected women and their family. This includes strengthening of resilience, and capacity, the support of women’s core group to work with existing members in the community to maintain momentum, solidarity and connecting them to the sub-national and national networks that aim to support the living standards and wellbeing of affected women and their families.
- Empowering affected women, in line with rights-based and gender sensitive approaches, to enable them to exercise their rights and to express their voice and demand accountability from duty bearers and service providers to develop a gender-responsive plan and budget that responds to the gender-specific needs and vulnerabilities of PLHIV and affected households specifically in time of Covid-19. There should be an emphasis on capacity development, building self-esteem and engaging with duty bearers at commune level.
- Identifying and addressing the specific need of women and community living affected by HIV to overcome the impact of Covid-19 while engaging men to address gender and power dynamics at household level to enable men to take responsibility in sharing domestic, care work, to prevent violence against women during pandemic, COVID 19, and natural disasters and to enable women’s to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights (including fertility choice, consent and HIV prevention).
Objectives
The specific project’s objectives are as below:
- To increase social accountability to implement gender-responsive actions through strengthening transformative leadership of women core group and advocacy at the grassroots.
- To strengthen community resilience as well as capacity to adapt to climate change in Roka by increased capacity and skills of Roka community members to undertake productive livelihoods activities with the understanding and skill to adapt to climate change.
- To promote feminist leadership and feminist climate change action generation among most vulnerable women group (women living with HIV, Women affected by HIV in the community).
Funding Information
Budget requests should be no more than 35,000 US$.
Eligibility Criteria
- The mandatory requirements/pre-qualification criteria have been designed to assure that, to the degree possible in the initial phase of the CFP procurement process, only those proponents with sufficient experience, the financial strength and stability, the demonstrable technical knowledge, the evident capacity to satisfy UN WOMEN requirements and superior customer references for supplying the services envisioned in this CFP will qualify for further consideration. UN WOMEN reserves the right to verify any information contained in proponent’s response or to request additional information after the proposal is received.
- Incomplete or inadequate responses, lack of response or misrepresentation in responding to any questions will affect your evaluation.
- Proponents will receive a pass/fail rating in the mandatory requirements/pre-qualification criteria section.
For more information, visit https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/CFP-KHM-2022-001-Strengthening%20Skills%20of%20HIV%20Affected%20Women-ReAdv.pdf