Deadline: 15-Sep-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking proposals for Enhancing Women Participation in the Solid Waste Management Sector to improve women’s quality of life in North of Jordan through enhancing their livelihoods and wellbeing.
The entry point of this project is women economic empowerment and equality as means to addressing barriers that are hindering women from active participation in their communities as workers, entrepreneurs and change makers, with the understanding that real women’s economic empowerment exists when women and girls have the same opportunities as men and boys to knowledge, economic opportunities, gender-sensitive policies and decision-making power and access to and control over assets and resources.
The project focuses on empowering women through improving effectiveness of women organizations to actively represent and support women voices in decision-making processes, increasing participation by women in the local economy, enhancing gender informed and responsive policy making at community and national levels, with particular focus on the solid waste management sector.
This project is designed to use the Solid Waste Management (SWM) sector to provide interventions aiming at empowering women economically, strengthening their voice and representation at the local level, and enhance the institutional capacities to accompany this process.
Within this project, a composting plant will be constructed operated, which will secure as an end-result sustainable job opportunity for women through a group community-based project in the SWM composting sector.
Objectives
- Main Objective: UNDP calls for proposals to identify a partner to implement the phase of empowering the local female involvement through generating employment opportunities for them in the solid waste sector in different levels (the composting plants, green points and the sorting station that will be located at the transfer station through creating partnership with selected CBOs and build capacities of the local community in with the designated municipalities (of Dier Abi Saeed, and Rabeiet Al Kura, in Irbid Governorate, with the ESIA approved ESMS framework.
Parameters
Targets will be accomplished within the following parameters:
- Areas: two municipalities in the Al Kura district- Governorate of Irbid.
- Beneficiaries:
- 32 women and men (majority are women) for the composting plant
- 18 women and men (majority are women) for the sorting and recycling activities
- On the ground working CBOs and local private sector that is working in the relevant fields.
- Local businesses that would interact or have partnerships with the project
- Duration: 12 months
Funding Information
- Proposals amounts should be up to a maximum of 272,000 USD.
- The amount requested in the proposal should be commensurate with the organization’s administrative and financial management capabilities.
- In principle, the contract duration will not exceed the end of the project duration in September 2022.
- The administrative cost should not exceed 10%.
Geographic Focus
- The project targets women in Kura district (Deir Abi Saied) in Irbid Governorate, specifically in Dair Abi Said where the total population is 85,283, of which women are 34,689, and men are 41,594, and where the social indicators show that male-headed households comprise 87.8% while female-headed households comprise 12.2%.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=82637