Deadline: 20-May-22
UN Women is calling for proposals to support and empower women-led civil society in promoting women’s role in peacebuilding efforts on all levels of the political process in Syria.
Priorities
The priorities of this partnership call are:
- Engage with Syrian women leaders inside and outside the country working on political participation and local peacebuilding efforts and identify areas of influence on all levels of the political process;
- Offer capacity-building, networking and exchange programmes for women-led CSOs in all areas of Syria;
- Develop and support pilots that would promote innovative ways to advance the WPS agenda in the context of Syria, particularly on women’s participation and leadership, use of technology to enhance inclusivity, and community empowerment;
- Production of knowledge products document and highlight lessons learned, and contribution of women in local mediation and peacebuilding efforts.
Funding Information
The budget range for this proposal should be USD 150,000 – USD 350,000
Competencies
All local and international non-profit organizations, including NGOs, foundations, think-tanks, are eligible to apply to this CfP.
- Technical/functional competencies required
- Demonstrated focus on women’s rights and gender equality for Syria;
- Track record on using peacebuilding frameworks;
- Demonstrated experience in one of the four workstream areas;
- Experience in implementing programming that draws on peacebuilding frameworks and conflict sensitive approaches;
- Ability to work across Syria’s diversity, including women from different political backgrounds, religious beliefs, ages, geographies, abilities etc.;
- Capacity to deliver expected results (governance and management competency, and financial and administrative competency);
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Syrian-led NGOs and platforms,
- Syrian women-led NGOs.
For more information, visit https://arabstates.unwomen.org/en/stories/news/2022/04/call-for-proposals-promoting-womens-role-in-peacebuilding-efforts-in-syria