Deadline: 24-Jan-25
The UN Women Türkiye invites women’s rights/women-led civil society organizations (CSOs) and other relevant rights-based CSOs legally registered and operating in Turkey to submit project proposals under this Call for Proposals.
Description of Required Services/Results
- UN Women request submission of proposals for initiatives/interventions from CSOs focusing on issues of the thematic areas, which are the “elimination of violence against women and girls”, “advancing women’s economic empowerment” and “gender responsive climate action and/or disaster risk reduction”. Proposals should focus on transformative interventions, offering solutions within the thematic areas.
Lots
- Indicative areas of intervention under each lot are provided below.
- LOT 1: Elimination of violence against women and girls
- Strengthen and implement the policy and legal framework on preventing and combating different forms of violence against women and girls, (which may also include child, early and forced marriages) in line with international norms and standards.
- Advance favorable social norms, attitudes, and behaviors to prevent violence against women and girls.
- Enhance the availability, accessibility, and quality of essential services so the impacts of violence are addressed, and perpetrators are held accountable. Essential services in general are the services that must at a minimum, secure the rights, safety and well-being of any woman or girl who experiences gender-based violence and encompasses a core set of services provided by the health care, social service (including helplines and shelters), police and justice sectors.
- Implement and improve good practice service standards for the effective provision of specialist support services for women survivors of violence.
- Provide training for local service providers to deliver quality, coordinated services, hold perpetrators accountable, and collect and use data in an ethical manner, in line with internationally accepted standards.
- Provide capacity-building support to grassroots women’s rights organizations to establish or operate counselling centers, crisis centers, helplines, etc., and to provide legal aid, referrals, and other relevant support for survivors of violence against women and girls.
- Strengthen dialogue between public service providers and CSOs at the central and local levels.
- Implement advocacy and awareness-raising activities to increase women’s understanding of their rights to quality essential services and contribute to higher rates of reporting and use of support services.
- Implement advocacy and awareness-raising activities or capacity building activities on child, early and forced marriages targeting relevant stakeholders.
- Initiatives to combat specific forms of violence, such as digital and ICT-facilitated violence against women and girls, sexual violence in public spaces, etc.
- Monitor and support data generation relating to efficient implementation of national legal framework relating to ending violence against women, by judicial, legal and administrative service providers.
- LOT 2: Advancing women’s economic empowerment
- Generate qualitative, quantitative or citizen generated data for evidence-based advocacy and decision-making with regards to women’s economic empowerment.
- Implement innovative and catalytic initiatives to address gaps in areas, including but not limited to:
- women’s employment in decent work,
- marginalized women’s access to the labor market,
- violence and harassment against women in the world of work,
- work-life balance
- Implement advocacy campaigns, dialogues and programmatic activities in cooperation with relevant stakeholders including local administrations for the transformation of care economy.
- Provide capacity development, networking support to collectives of women-led cooperatives, women-led social enterprises, networks and civil society organizations of women-led businesses in the fields of digital transformation, financial and digital inclusion to close the digital gender gap.
- Develop the capacity of policymakers and practitioners to address the 6Rs of care work in their investments and initiatives at the global, regional and national level.
- Development of models for ensuring women’s active participation and leadership in nontraditional sectors and in care economy in particular.
- LOT 3: Gender responsive climate action and/or disaster risk reduction
- Collection, analysis and dissemination of qualitative or quantitative data on the gender dimension of climate change and/or disasters or to understand the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on women’s and girls’ unpaid care, domestic and communal work to inform policies, programmes and initiatives and paid work in the context of a just transition.
- Community based actions to increase women’s resilience to risks related to climate change and/disasters, including vulnerable groups of women or women facing multiple forms of discrimination (migrant women, female heads of households, women with disabilities, young women, old women, etc.), and increasing their agency.
- Development of models for ensuring women’s active participation and leadership championing women’s increased participation and leadership in green and blue economies and climate-resilient agriculture.
- Advancing women’s representation and meaningful participation in decision and policymaking in climate change action and/or disaster risk reduction at all levels.
- Enhancing networking, mutual learning, exchange of knowledge among women’s organizations and networks, women climate activists and environmental/climate CSOs with the aim to drive a common agenda.
- Implementing innovative and catalytic actions that advance gender equality in the context of climate change and disaster risk reduction/management.
- Strengthening rural women in the field of climate change adaptation strategies and enhancing rural women’s role as maintainers of food security and source of knowledge.
- Integration of gender equality perspective into disaster risk management policies and planning; ensuring women’s meaningful participation in decision-making in those policies and planning; and promoting gender responsive capacity building to enhance resilience.
- LOT 1: Elimination of violence against women and girls
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be equivalent to minimum USD 100,000 and maximum USD 200,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- This is a call for proposals for civil society organizations. UN Women will prioritize applications from women’s rights and women-led organizations.
- The proposals are encouraged to be leveraged through partnerships or engagement with other entities.
- Partners or engaged entities may be public institutions, local authorities, CSOs, but also community-based groups/organizations, academic institutions or other. The proponents should clearly describe and define the purpose and nature of the planned partnerships and provide relevant documentation.
Competencies
- Municipalities, cooperatives, international organizations, companies, private or public universities, unions or individuals are not eligible applicants under this Call for Proposals.
- The applicant CSOs may partner or engage with other relevant organizations such as other CSOs, community-based groups/organizations, municipalities or academic institutions.
- Technical/functional competencies required
- The applicants as a civil society organization must have been in operation for at least five (5) years as of 24 January 2025.
- Track record of experience in the field of women’s human rights, gender equality, women’s empowerment.
- Specialized knowledge and expertise in the field that the proposal is submitted under (elimination of violence against women, advancing women’s economic empowerment, gender responsive climate action and/or disaster risk reduction).
- Experience in engaging with multiple stakeholders, including but not limited to governmental and non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations and advocacy networks, private sector, academia, etc.
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