Deadline: 10-Apr-24
UN Women has announced a call for proposals to provide capacity building and support development activities directed towards women in the rural areas of Delta (Gharbeya governorate) to enable them to sustain their basic needs through decent employment opportunities and income generating activities.
Under the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2023-2027), UN Women Egypt Country Office (ECO) implements its triple mandate of supporting normative standard-setting to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, working with the Government of Egypt, civil society and the private sector on implementing international and national commitments and best practices, and strengthening UN system coordination in this regard.
With so many development activities directed toward rural Egypt, UN Women Egypt Country Office is also seeking to support local level community organisations in the Delta region. Since 2019, UN Women Egypt started on-ground activities that resulted in building the capacity of around 375 women villagers in Gharbia governorate providing them with training on entrepreneurship to establish and run income generating activities of their own (i.e., sewing and poultry raising activities). These efforts had a direct impact on improving the economic and social lives of the target audience and their families. Now, UN Women aims to replicate the said interventions and support more women in the mentioned area.
Required Services/Results
- UN Women will support a local organisation to engage in community mobilization to target and support income generating activities for women in rural areas in Delta namely, Gharbia governorate with a focus on poultry raising and related vet services. This will be materialized through the achievement of the below outcome and relevant outputs by the selected organization.
- Outcome: Women, in rural areas in Delta (Gharbia governorate), are economically empowered
- Output 1: Women in Delta (Gharbia governorate), are better equipped with capacity building skills and vocational training that respond to the needs of their communities.
- Output 2: Economically led initiatives for women are supported through seed funds for their scalability and access to the relevant markets.
- For the purpose of this call for proposal, UN Women seeks collaboration with community-based organization to deliver on the above outputs through the below indicative activities that include but not limited to the following:
- Build on the available simple database (excel sheet) of women beneficiaries with all the required socio-economic data in the targeted villages of Gharbia governorate.
- Build the capacity of 100 women beneficiaries to run businesses of their own and access the market.
- Channel seed funds in the format of in-kind support as raw materials and support services (inputs for production) to women beneficiaries to support their delivery of marketable products.
Indicative Indicators for Outreach
- Number of women and girls with capacity built for business opportunities. Indicative target: 100
- Geographical area: Gharbia governorate
Expected Deliverables
- Submit work plan for the implementation of the proposed activities. The work plan has to reflect the expected outputs, activities and indicators. The work plan needs to factor in government approval procedures (if required). The work plan needs to be complemented by a sustainability plan reflecting the mechanisms that will be put in place for continuation of the activities as the proposed project phases out.
- Develop capacity building plan for the target group of women and girls on poultry raising.
- Facilitate knowledge and peer to peer learning among the selected target group through rolling out of in-class trainings on poultry raising and further on-the-job training to the proposed project beneficiaries. Moreover, all the beneficiaries enrolled in the proposed project must receive training on how to start their own business to ensure sustainability of the intervention.
- Compile knowledge products used/produced during the implementation of the proposed project.
- Hold dialogue and community events in the selected governorates to highlight and disseminate the proposed project’s achievements, as well as, opening the space for learning exchanges and networking.
- Facilitate field visits from UN Women to the project’s activities.
- Provide proper documentation of good practices, human stories etc. for the beneficiaries.
- Agree with UN Women’s team on the monitoring framework and provide relevant data on a regular basis (deadlines will be agreed upon).
- Submit quality quarterly reports detailing progress against outputs, lessons learned, human success stories and next steps, along with the financial reports as per UN Women’s rules and regulations.
Timeframe
- Start date and end date for completion of required services/results
- The intervention should cover the duration of 10 months. Expected Starting Date: 01 May 2024
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required
- The organization has a well-developed framework through which to deliver its vision and strategy and ensure effective business processes.
- Previous experience in conducting similar works/projects relevant to the scope and size of the current project.
- Previous experience of work with different vulnerable groups on their capacity building and empowerment.
- Previous experience in conducting gender/human rights advocacy and awareness raising at a local level is a plus.
- Previous experience of work at the local level and coordination of cooperation between different groups and organizations.
- Capacity to be fully operational and perform the Terms of Reference (TOR) in Egypt.
- Other competencies, while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Previous experience of development of training materials on gender equality and women’s empowerment and women’s rights.
- Previous experience of provisions of tailored services for vulnerable groups.
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