Deadline: 14-Sep-22
UN Women is seeking applications for its grants to render women’s and girls’ lives and livelihoods disaster-resilient, contributing to sustainable and secure communities.
UN Women is in the process of identifying potential responsible parties for the implementation of the “Women’s resilience to disasters programme” in Vanuatu. UN Women is seeking to partner with a civil society organization to implement national priorities, which were identified through consultative processes.
The Women’s Resilience to Disasters programme will be implemented at the country level (Fiji, Vanuatu, Kiribati) as well as the regional level, and it builds upon and leverage existing interventions. The programme will help shift the narrative away from women and girls as vulnerable victims, and instead foster women’s participation and leadership in climate action.
Aims
The aim of the programme is to render women’s and girls’ lives and livelihoods disaster-resilient, contributing to sustainable and secure communities.
Threats such as COVID-19 are further exacerbating the inequalities and hardships faced by women and girls including those with disabilities. Women and girls face greater risk and exposure to disasters, yet women remain largely ignored and their capacities unleveraged in conventional resilience building processes. As a result, women are generally absent in the development of resilience strategies and decision-making processes for prevention, preparedness, and recovery. Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) programme proposes a comprehensive package for building women’s resilience to disasters, climate change and threats (including COVID-19).
Funding & Duration Information
- The proposals are expected to cover a period of minimum 2 years (24 months) from 2022-2024 with a minimum budget of 100,000 USD and a maximum budget of 250,000 USD.
Outputs
The Expression of Interest is being issued to identify potential partners with the capacity to implement the following priority areas of the WRD programme in Vanuatu, which have been identified through a consultative process with national stakeholders. This includes organizations that are currently working in these areas and wishing to scale up current initiatives.
Registered CSOs working in Vanuatu on areas described below and are interested to work in partnership with UN Women Vanuatu Office through receiving a grant are encouraged to submit their expression of interest (EOI).
- Women’s leadership, voices, and mentoring in disaster risk reduction and climate change actions
- Identify and support pathways to raise the number of women appointees at all levels of decision making, encouraging support of the respective leaders.
- Support leadership, mentoring and coaching programmes including those targeting young women.
- Strengthen accountability mechanisms of government and partner processes to be more inclusive.
- Develop educational programmes by women for women and encourage methodologies and approaches that promote wide representation from across Vanuatu, peer to peer sharing of experiences, and intergenerational learning.
- Formalise women’s representation and decision making in all levels of government and their leadership role within the climate and disaster resilience.
- Strengthen awareness/advocacy to communities, churches, schools, and organisation on gender equality and the importance of including women as policy makers, decision makers and leaders.
- Localized capacity development and preservation of traditional knowledge
- Strengthen capacity building approaches of existing women leaders to be agents of change and engage and promote young women leaders for sustainability.
- Support gender related training at divisional and district level.
- Engage Men and Social Norm Change
- Support school and community-based programmes where boys are engaged at a young age.
- Adopt a considered and intentional approach to programming that engages men.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Expression of Interest is open to:
- Non-Government Organizations (national/local)
- International Non-Government Organizations
- Academic institutions
- UN agencies
- Inter-governmental institutions not part of the UN System.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/programme-implementation/2022/08/expression-of-interest-unw-ap-vut-eoi-2022-001-womens-resilience-to-disasters