Deadline: 17-Jul-25
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is accepting applications for the Community Strengthening and Gender-Based Violence Program.
Sectors and Areas of Specialization
- Protection
- Access to asylum
- Gender based violence
- Legal assistance and access to justice
- Protection – general
Geographic Focus
- To Guatemala
- a Department of Suchitepequez
- Department of Chiquimula
- Department of Peten
- Department of Chimaltenango
- Department of Izabal
- Department of Escuintla
- Department of Quetzaltenango
- Department of Quiché
- Department of Alta Verapaz
- Department of Jutiapa
- Department of Santa Rosa
- Department of San Marcos
- Department of Alta Verapaz
- Department of Huehuetenango
- Department of Sacatepequez
Selection Criteria
- Local experience and presence
- Project management
- Cost effectiveness
- Accountability to communities and community relationsÿ
- Access/security considerations
Expected Results
- Outcome 1: Community Strengthening
- General Objective:
- The project’s objective is to strengthen community outreach through actions that enable the inclusion of refugee claimants, refugees, deportees/returnees, and internally displaced persons in host communities, enabling them to become active members of decision-making and eradicating segregation and discrimination.
- Main actions:
- Strengthen community liaison mechanisms so that refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons/returnees can access information about their rights, responsibilities, and available services.
- Develop a mechanism for community participation and peaceful coexistence.
- Promote empowerment and active participation, in coordination with local communities, to achieve peaceful coexistence and full integration.
- Strengthen local protection systems and access to services through coordination and articulation with relevant public, private, and civil society institutions.
- General Objective:
- Outcome 2: Gender-based violence
- General Objective:
- Strengthen mechanisms for prevention, mitigation, and specialized response to violence gender (VG) as a cross-cutting axis for all protection actions towards the people they serve.
- Main actions:
- Provide specialized services for survivors of gender-based violence:
- legal psychosocial assistance, health services or referral to these
- Implement actions to strengthen existing comprehensive protection responses and access to services, from an intersectoral approach.
- Implement strategies for the prevention of gender-based violence.
- Provide specialized services for survivors of gender-based violence:
- General Objective:
For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.
