Deadline: 12-Jan-23
UN Women Lebanon Office welcomes proposals for partnerships to achieve results under the Women’s Political Participation (WPP) programme.
UN Women in Lebanon works across the humanitarian‐development‐peace and security nexus to support national efforts for the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. To create an enabling environment for the realization of gender equality and women’s empowerment, UN Women advocates and supports social mobilization for legislative reform, works with partners to build gender responsive institutions, and delivers essential services to women and girls in need, both host government nationals and refugees. This is complemented by work that seeks to engage communities, women and men, on issues of gender equality with the objective of addressing discriminatory gender norms.
Focus Areas
This work is done through the following focus areas:
- Women’s Economic Empowerment and Protection from Gender Based Violence.
- Women’s Political Participation
- Women, Peace and Security
- Social Norms work – to engage men and women in issues of gender equality
Funding Information
- The budget range for this call for proposals varies by component and can range from CFPs: Partners for Elements of UN Women Lebanon’s Thematic Area Women’s Political Participation. Proposals should be in USD.
- Timeframe: 1 March 2023 – 31 March 2025
Outcomes and Outputs
- Outcome 1: More women across political and civic spaces participate in decision‐making spaces in Lebanon
- Output: Emerging female leaders across civic spaces (including universities and syndicates) are better able to occupy positions of leadership within their sectors, including in elected bodies
- Indicative Activities:
- Identify which sectors to work in within civic spaces (university clubs, syndicates, etc), with a rational as to why each sector is chosen. Within the sector, chose 6 bodies with which to focus on women’s increased leadership (e.g. university clubs, or 6 syndicates, etc).
- Identify tailored initiatives to address barriers to women’s leadership in each chosen sector.
- Target: 300 women to be supported. 6 bodies to supported.
- Outcome 2: Enhanced advancement of key gender reforms and accountability measures on women’s rights and feminist leadership by feminist coalitions and national women rights machinery
- Output: System established for long term monitoring and documentation of women’s experiences of violence and their access to justice.
- Indicative Activities:
- Establish framework for a report card/system to monitor and log gender violations.
- Develop a mechanism for the regular dissemination of this monitoring/analysis, for use in advocacy and policy reform. This could be an online portal or other methods are welcome.
Competencies
- UN‐Women is soliciting proposals from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Women’s organizations or entities are highly encouraged to apply
- Technical/functional competencies required
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- In the selection of partners, the following competencies will be considered:
- Soundness of technical competency described in the approach to the outcome/outputs as described in the Terms of Reference for the Call for Proposals.
- Organisations with a track record of working on women’s rights and gender equality and
- delivering results for women’s rights in Lebanon.
- Capacity to deliver expected results: governance and management competency, and financial and administrative competency.
- Relevance of the mandate and the role of the organization to implement expected results and to contribute to the sustainability of said results.
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