Deadline: 8-Apr-25
Through this Call for Proposals, UN Women Tanzania invites applications from organizations with proven expertise in advancing women’s economic rights, gender equality, and human rights.
The goal is to implement innovative, evidence-based models that enhance women’s access to gender-responsive financial and business development services, improve market access, and promote equitable resource distribution and economic participation.
Key Results
- The envisioned CSO will contribute to the following key results:
- Conduct a mapping and needs assessment to identify 1,000 women entrepreneurs, their business growth stages, and the specific business support required. The assessment findings will inform targeted interventions.
- Equipping Women led MSMEs with financial and digital literacy skills and linkages to utilize digital solutions for business development and market linkages.
- Capacity strengthening for women led MSMEs to participate and benefit in public procurement opportunities and national, intra-regional and international market opportunities Deliver tailored business development services for women-led SMEs, including record-keeping, business formalization, and strategic linkages with government initiatives such as the Women, Youth, and People with Disabilities Fund to promote financial inclusion.
- To address women’s time poverty, provide labour saving technology such as safe cooking stoves and water storage facilities to selected women SMEs in the informal food industry through cost sharing models.
- Facilitate access to larger markets, improved food value chain through partnership with selected private sector actors.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be 100,000.00 – 120,000.00 USD
Timeframe
- The term of one-year starting date is April 2025 and completion of services is March 2026.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required
- The selected institution must demonstrate in its technical proposal that it meets the following criteria:
- Have a legal status under the laws of the United Republic of Tanzania;
- Have a mandate and experiences of working with local government in the United Republic of Tanzania on issues related to gender equality including unpaid care and domestic work and the green economy
- Have experience on providing financial and digital literacy for women-led MSMEs,
- Have experience on providing Business development services for women led MSME in rural areas;
- Have experience working with the Government and other key stakeholders in providing gender responsive services such as access to finance, addressing women’s disproportionate care roles, and access to market;
- Have experience and capacity to coordinate networks, peer-to-peer learning and mentoring groups together with women groups and leaders at local level;
- Have experience working with financial institutions on economic rights;
- Have experience in promoting rural livelihoods.
- The selected institution must demonstrate in its technical proposal that it meets the following criteria:
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Adoption of a rights-based approach in all its work;
- Establishment of strategic partnerships with key actors from the government at the local level, civil society, and community organizations including those promoting rights and perspective of women with disabilities, etc;
- Inclusive and multi-sectoral approach to transform gender norms at the community level;
- Establishment of strategic partnerships with the private sector particularly in seaweed value chain.
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