Deadline: 3-Jul-25
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the call for proposals to provide support in building the capacity and leadership of organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) on health equity.
Objectives
- Objective 1: OPDs are equipped to understand and advocate on health equity for persons with disabilities.
- Activities: develop information materials tailored to OPDs on health equity for persons with disabilities including tools that can be used at the grass roots level; (2) coordinate and deliver at least 15 webinars on health equity, targeting organizations of persons with disabilities; delivered across all 6 WHO regions, ensuring accessibility.
- Objective 2: Experiences related to health equity for persons with disabilities are better known.
- Activities: collect at least 10 case studies (testimony including video and photos) from persons with disabilities, across all six WHO regions, considering gender, ethnic, cultural, and other diversity; disseminate key information on health equity for persons with disabilities through key fora.
Eligibility Criteria
- Minimum criteria of the work or vendor:
- Vendor must be an Organization of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) working at the international level.
- Vendor must have access across its network, to a number of other OPDs, which represent both impairment-based organizations, and regional organizations, at global and regional levels.
- Vendor must have first-hand experience on working on health equity for persons with disabilities.
- Vendor must have experience and capacity for coordinating webinar activities including captioning and international sign-language (at least).
- Vendor must have experience creating advocacy messages tailored for OPDs.
- Preferable experience of the vendor:
- Experience working with WHO at the International level on health equity for persons with disabilities.
- Experience supporting Organizations of Persons with Disabilities on health equity for persons with disabilities.
- Experience supporting the activities of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities at global, regional and national level on advocacy issues.
For more information, visit WHO.