CFPs to Promote & Accelerate Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in Tanzania

Deadline: 30-Nov-22

UN Women seeks a partnership with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) with a track record in human and women’s rights and gender equality, and community and grassroots sensitization, especially through various community engagement approaches, to implement a set of interventions in a joint manner with other UN Agencies in Dodoma.

The UN Joint programme “Accelerating Progress Towards Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment” will be implemented by UN Women and other UN Agencies (WFP, IFAD, and FAO) in collaboration with the national Government and respective local government authorities. The CFP is to secure partnership with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) with a track record in human and women’s rights, gender equality, community and grassroots sensitization; especially through various community engagement approaches.

Goals

• The overall goal is to secure rural women’s livelihoods, rights and resilience in the context of sustainable development, Agenda 2030 and the SDGs.
• This call for proposal will predominantly focus on achieving the programme results through working with rural women, men, and girls in the sunflower, maize, beans, sorghum, orange fleshed sweet potatoes and horticulture value chains in collaboration with local government authorities and private sector institutions in Chamwino District of the Dodoma Region.
• To secure rural women’s livelihoods, rights, and resilience in the context of sustainable development, Agenda 2030 and the SDGs.

Funding Information

• The budget range for this proposal should be 120,000.00 – 150,000.00 USD.
• Duration: A term of two-years with the starting date in January 2023 and completion of services in December 2024.

Required Results

• Sensitize the community, including male and family gender champions, using various sensitisation tools to prevent economic violence and promote women’s access and ownership of productive resources to be able to engage in climate smart agriculture.
• Promote interventions and strategies that address women’s disproportionate unpaid care work burden and the 5Rs (reduce, redistribute, recognize, reward and represent unpaid care work).
• Establish mentoring services and an exchange programme between women’s groups and model women entrepreneurs.
• Provide rural women with TVET to develop off-farm skills for new employment opportunities and linkages to economic empowerment opportunities.
• Increased access to gender-responsive financial and business development.
• Establishment and promotion of a network of women leaders in various socio-economic committees to provide peer-to-peer support and learning exchange, and act as role models for other rural women in the in the sunflower, maize, beans, sorghum, orange fleshed sweet potatoes, and horticulture value chains in the sunflower, maize, beans, sorghum, orange fleshed sweet potatoes and horticulture value chains.
• Promote positive masculinity by engaging men as religious and traditional leaders, chiefs, local authorities, and community members in general to build collaborative gender partnerships in the communities.

Target Beneficiaries

The programme targets 3500 people as direct beneficiaries and 14000 as indirect beneficiaries, including rural women, men and youth beneficiaries in sunflower, maize, beans, sorghum, orange fleshed sweet potatoes, and horticulture value chains in Dodoma.

Competencies

• Technical/functional competencies required:
  • The selected institution must demonstrate in its technical proposal that it meets the following criteria:
    • Having a legal status under the laws of the United Republic of Tanzania;
    • Having a mandate and experiences of working with local government in the United Republic of Tanzania on issues related to gender equality, including unpaid care and domestic work, the Green and Green Economies;
    • Have experience on advocacy and community sensitization with government officials and LGA members, as well as men and boys and traditional leaders;
    • Having experience implementing interventions that address women’s unpaid care burden in the agriculture sector;
    • Having experience and capacity to coordinate networks, peer-to-peer learning, and mentoring groups together with women groups and leaders at local level;
    • Having experience working with financial institutions on economic rights;
    • Having experience in promoting rural livelihoods, particularly in the sunflower, maize, beans, sorghum, orange fleshed sweet potatoes, and horticulture value chains;
    • Having experience in social work and community development;
    • Administrative capacity to handle and manage the financial and programme aspects of the expected assignments.
• Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services:
• Adoption of a rights-based approach in all its work;
  • Establishment of strategic partnerships with key actors from the government at the local level, civil society, and community organizations, including those promoting rights and perspective of women with disabilities;
  • Experience using inclusive and multi-sectoral approach to transform gender norms at the community level;
  • Establishment of strategic partnerships with the private sector, particularly in the sunflower, maize, beans, sorghum, orange fleshed sweet potatoes, and horticulture value chains.

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