Deadline: 11-Oct-23
UN Women Indonesia is seeking one national partner to support women-led initiatives to promote peaceful and resilient communities in West Java, Central Sulawesi, and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB).
The proponent organization will mainly support capacity-building activities of women, youths, and community members to become agents of change to promote social cohesion and prevent conflict, contributing to community peace and harmony.
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: Women and women-led working groups are able to influence and benefit from local policy/decisionmaking processes for conflict prevention, resolution and recovery
- Build capacity of women and women-led groups on addressing the nexus between the livelihood opportunities and P/CVE
- Deliver training for women to enhance leadership skills to influence policy/decision-making processes on conflict prevention
- Support women’s groups to build a mechanism to identify early warning signs of intolerance and radicalization
- Strengthen working group’s coordination with local governing structure and law enforcement agency to design and implement the Peace Village action plans
- Output 2: Communities have enhanced capacities to promote social cohesion, conflict prevention (including preventing violent extremism) and resilience
- Conduct capacity assessment of communities on their coping mechanism to conflict and violent extremism
- Facilitate workshop and community dialogues to enhance the understanding of linkage of economic empowerment and relevance to P/CVE
- Develop tailored communications interventions with women’s groups, schools, families, and religious leaders to increase their awareness and capacity on P/CVE and promote social cohesion
- Establish and implement communications and advocacy strategy to promote attitude and behaviour change and support positive social norms towards gender equality and social cohesion
- Build a knowledge sharing platform and facilitate knowledge exchange sessions among villages on lessons learned and best practices of PVE and deradicalization with women at the centre
- Output 3: Youths (including young women and men) have skills to generate alternative narratives for the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism.
- Develop training and workshop for youths in the project communities to equip their skills on promoting peace and tolerance values to prevent or counter violent extremism narratives
- Support local-level youth campaigns on peace activism, gender equality, and youth civic participation to build the capacity of youth organizations and young women activists
- Support youth groups to create spaces or platforms to facilitate community dialogues on peace and security
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be USD 220,000 to USD 250,000.
- Timeframe: January 2024 to June 2025 (18 months)
Expected Results
- Women and women-led working groups are able to influence and benefit from local policy/decision-making processes for conflict prevention, resolution and recovery;
- Communities have enhanced capacities to promote social cohesion, conflict prevention (including preventing violent extremism) and resilience;
- Youths (including young women and men) have skills to generate alternative narratives for the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism.
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 strengthen the existing Peace Villages in West Java and expand the model (to be refined and contextualized) in 10 villages in Central Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB), focusing on supporting women to achieve meaningful participation and leadership in conflict prevention, resolution and recovery to promote social cohesion and sustainable peace.
- The total number of the beneficiaries is approximately 177,500 people. This includes the direct beneficiaries of 11,500 people, including targeted leaders (men and women at the village level) who will be directly involved with the project through capacity building and community organization. Indirect beneficiaries include 160,000 people at the community/village level. These indirect beneficiaries include the broader community members, and households within the communities that will benefit from the programme and the decision making/changes that are driven by the direct beneficiaries through the local action plans.
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.
- Demonstrated a strong track record in development of gender-responsive tools and guidelines at the community level, with a focus on conflict prevention, including P/CVE.
- Strong experience in programme management and implementation particularly on capacity-building of women’s leadership, integration and protection.
- 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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