Deadline: 11-Oct-23
The UN Women Indonesia is seeking one national partner to strengthen gender-responsive policy design and implementation to build social cohesion at national, sub-national (in West Java, Central Sulawesi, and West Nusa Tenggara(NTB)) and local levels.
The proponent organization will support capacity building for government institutions to develop and implement gender-responsive plans and policies on prevention of violent extremism to advance sustainable peace and resilience.
Objectives
- Promote positive social norms to strengthen women’s agency, participation, and leadership in peace and security processes, and dismantle discriminatory and harmful social norms to transform traditional gender roles and promote gender equality, by engaging all key stakeholders, including men and boys;
- Ensure a participatory approach to intervention design while fostering full ownership within the local community and enhancing its sustainability by collaborating closely with community members, particularly women and youth, in co-designing and co-implementing strategies as well as monitoring and reporting mechanism that is contextually relevant and tailored to community’s needs;
- Strengthen community resilience and reduce vulnerabilities by addressing the nexus of traditional and nontraditional security threats pertinent to women and girls in Indonesia, including violent extremism, social conflict, and climate security risks; and
- Synergize community-based initiatives with the implementation and localization of national policies related to gender equality, peace, and PVE, to ensure a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to prevention of violent extremism or conflicts with focus on gender equality and human rights.
Key Activities
- Output 1: Local governments have increased capacity to develop and implement gender-responsive local action plans to enhance social cohesion, resilience and peace
- Facilitate capacity building on gender awareness and gender equality for local government officials
- Deliver training to local government officials to increase capacity on implementing policies and designing programmes to promote gender-responsive P/CVE
- Support the design or implementation of gender-responsive local action plans for both RAN PE and RAN P3AKS, ensure its linkages and harmonization
- Output 2: National institutions and systems have increased the capacity to promote tolerance and discourage violent extremism among the children and relatives of those convicted or accused of terrorism offences
- Facilitate national dialogues on gender-responsive good practices and lessons learned from Peace Villages and implementation of RAN PE and RAN P3AKS
- Build capacity of national-level government officials on addressing WPS and its linkage to P/CVE
- Strengthen the coordination mechanism for the implementation of the gender perspective RAN PE
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be USD 100,000 to USD 120,000.
- Timeframe: January 2024 to June 2025 (18 months)
Expected Results
- Local governments have increased capacity to develop and implement gender-responsive village action plans to enhance social cohesion, resilience and peace;
- National institutions and systems have increased the capacity to promote tolerance and discourage violent extremism among the children and relatives of those convicted or accused of terrorism offences.
Project Outcome
- People living in Indonesia, especially those at risk of being left furthest behind, are empowered to fulfil their human development potential as members of a pluralistic, tolerant, inclusive, and just society, free of gender and all other forms of discrimination.
Proposed Locations and Target Groups
- The proponent organization will mainly benefit around 200 national government officials and 150 local government officials in West Java, Central Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB), focusing on providing technical, coordination and capacity building support with devising gender-responsive local action plans on P/CVE and WPS, and tailoring it for further implementation in targeted communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organization Profile
- Must be legally registered in Indonesia with strong track record in understanding the specific local context in the areas of targeted locations.
- At least 5 years of operation with minimum 3 years of specific experiences working to promote women peace and security (WPS), women’s empowerment, promoting social cohesion, and preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization.
- Strong experience in capacity-building, particularly for policy-makers and government officials on designing and implementing gender-responsive policies.
- Proven organizational experiences in working with a network of relevant civil society organisations, local and national government agencies, including key local stakeholders in Indonesia.
- Team members will be assessed on the following:
- Team Leader, the overall team leader should have:
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in International Development Studies, Social Sciences, Politics, Law, Human Rights, Gender, Women Studies, Economics, Monitoring, and Evaluation or related field. (A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.)
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience on women’s empowerment and/or building peaceful and resilient communities in Indonesia.
- Substantive experience in managing and implementing similar projects with a strong gender focus is preferred.
- Experience working in promoting peaceful and resilient communities is desirable.
- Experiences in monitoring and reporting results following the UN/UN Women’s approach on results-based management (RBM).
- Proven experience in producing coherent, clear analytic reports and knowledge products.
- Excellent communication skills and fluent in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
- Indonesia nationality.
- Team members, facilitators, and other members will be assessed on the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in International Development Studies, Social Sciences, Politics, Law, Human Rights, Gender, Women Studies, Economics, Monitoring, and Evaluation or related field is preferred. High school graduation is required as a minimum for team members.
- Experience in working with civil society and community-based organisations, including project/programme management.
- Professional experience in the area of women’s empowerment, promoting local/community-owned initiative to advance gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.
- Experience working in promoting peaceful and resilient communities is desirable.
- Fluent in English and Bahasa Indonesia and other dialects as relevant.
- Indonesia nationality.
- Team Leader, the overall team leader should have:
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