Deadline: 12-Mar-25
The UN Women is inviting applications for program insignia “Cities and public spaces safe for women and girls” to obtain information, develop and implement laws and policies, rethink services and infrastructures, and also transform social norms to prevent and respond to sexual abuse against women in the public space.
All this, in the framework of the implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda of America Latina and the Caribbean or the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development by placing Objective 5 of Gender Equality at the center of the ODS and in coordination with all the other Objectives in order to ensure an integral advance.
The project will be financed with the resources of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID), the state agency that manages the Spanish cooperation, which aims to fight poverty and promote sustainable human development. In this framework, the AECID finances projects and actions in the fight against gender violence, as is the case of the Program Insignia “Cities and public spaces safe for women and girls”. The applicant organization must consider its operational capacity and financial absorption when presenting its proposal so that it is appropriate to the project it is proposing.
The results by level of impact for each program in cities and public spaces safe with women and girls include:
- Women and girls enjoy a greater feeling of safety and greater comfort in public spaces
- Increased use of public spaces and increased autonomous mobility of women and girls in the city
- Reduction of different forms of sexual violence in public spaces, especially in intervention centers
Required Services and Results
- Strengthening the response capacity of the community and decision makers to prevent and attend cases of ASEP in San Miguel.
- Greater social awareness and awareness about ASEP as a form of sexual violence and its relationship with patriarchal culture.
- Involvement of men in the community in the prevention of ASEP in a sustained manner.
- Effective implementation of public policies on ASEP, including attention protocols and response mechanisms.
- Empowerment of women, girls and adolescents to use and intervene in public spaces with strategies of influence.
Eligibility Criteria
- Technical and functional competencies required:
- Must have experience in the implementation of local projects, desirable in the district of San Miguel.
- Must have a legal personality registration with an age of at least 5 (five) years.
- Must have certificates of financial status of the three previous fiscal years (2022, 2023, 2024).
- Must be able to confirm that no accounts with team members have been the subject of a finding of fraud or any other relevant misconduct following an investigation conducted by ONU Women or another UN entity and are not currently under investigation for fraud or any other relevant misconduct on the part of ONU Women or another UN entity.
- Must be able to confirm that no accounts have been made with team members who have been harmed or that they are currently the object of any investigation and/or have not been accused of any misconduct related to exploitation or sexual abuse.
- Must be able to confirm that the institution or organization has not been included in any list of relevant sanctions.
- Must have at least 5 (five) years of experience in the field of elimination of violence against women in their diversity.
- Must have at least 3 (three) years of relevant experience in the creation, strengthening and/or support of feminist and women’s movements in their diversity.
- Must have at least 3 (three) years of experience in sensitization campaigns and/or communication, and/or incidence actions.
- Must have demonstrated operational capacity and financial absorption to implement the project that is proposed with the objective of putting an end to violence against them.
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- Documented experience in the implementation of previous projects for amounts similar to that sought to be requested and for a period similar to that sought to be requested.
- Other competencies that, although not required, may constitute an advantage for the provision of those services:
- As an organization or institution, the applicant must demonstrate that it is governed and directed by women. This requires evidence that a minimum of 61 percent of leadership positions at different levels of decision making, including managerial, senior director and directorate boards, are occupied by women.
- An organization or institution led by and for women that represents the identities, orientations, races, ethnicities and groups of historically discriminated women and girls.
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