Deadline: 22-Sep-2024
UN Women is looking to partner with a local NGO to provide protection services to women in Nineveh/Mosul and strengthen their resilience including vulnerable women and girls (IDPs, returnees).
This will be done by through the implementation of sustainable livelihoods, protection, social cohesion, and climate action programmes.
UN Women welcomes proposals for partnerships to achieve results under the objective listed below. Proposals should propose interventions to achieve the listed outputs and activities. Partners can add sub-activities to the below activities but need to make sure that they are linked to the main activities of this CFP when reporting.
Overall objective: “Providing livelihood and protection services to women returnees in Nineveh/ Mosul Governorate”.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be $130,000- $150,000.
Timeframe
- Expected start date and end date for completion of required services/results
- Upon signature of contract— June 2025 (9 months)
- The partnership will commence upon signature of the partnership agreement with the selected organization and will end by June 2025.
Required Services/Results
- Outcomes:
- Output 1: Improved access to protection services and enhanced well-being of vulnerable women and girls, (returnees and IDPs).
- Indicator 1: Number of women and girls receiving psychosocial support and/or legal aid.
- Indicator 2: Percentage of participants reporting improved psychological well-being.
- Indicator 3: Number of women who report enhanced awareness and knowledge on VAW (Target= 150)
- Indicator 4: Number of protection service providers who report an increase in VAW and protection knowledge and capacity for service provision (Target= 50 Service Providers)
- Output 2: Establish a literacy, basic civic understanding, cultural inclusion and empowerment initiative for adult vulnerable women and girls, leading to improved socio-economic status and overall well-being.
- Indicator 1: Number of women and girls enrolled in literacy and civic education programs.
- Indicator 2: Percentage of participants demonstrating improved literacy skills, and increased understanding of civic rights and responsibilities.
- Indicator 3: Number of women and girls completing in empowerment training sessions.
- Output 1: Improved access to protection services and enhanced well-being of vulnerable women and girls, (returnees and IDPs).
- Activities contributing to the above outputs with:
- Provide 1000 vulnerable women and girls with protection services including psychosocial support and legal aid. The activity aims to build their access to protection umbrella and services and enhance their well-being.
- Increase knowledge and capacity of 50 protection service providers in VAW.
- Provide 500 vulnerable women and girls with basic literacy, civil education, cultural inclusion, and empowerment trainings. The activity aims to enhance their literacy skills, civic understanding, and empowerment, thereby improving their socio-economic status and overall well-being.
- Community-based activities targeting 100 returnees and IDPs for fostering social cohesion and positive integration in Iraq.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required.
- In the selection of partners, the following competencies will be considered:
- Soundness of technical competency described in the approach to the project as described in the Terms of Reference for the Call for Proposals, to be demonstrated by a track record of successful programmatic interventions.
- Capacity to deliver expected results: governance and management competency, and financial and administrative competency, demonstrated by previous partnerships with UN Women or other donor organisations.
- Relevance of the mandate and the role of the organization to implement expected results and to contribute to the sustainability of said results, demonstrated by expertise in gender-related work and community outreach.
- In the selection of partners, the following competencies will be considered:
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
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