Deadline: 08-Jul-21
The UN Women Somalia Country Office is seeking to engage women-led CSOs working on the promotion of positive gender norms in support of women’s leadership and protection from gender-based violence including harmful practices and women’s rights and advocacy of Sexual offense bills in Somaliland with focusing on ending sexual gender-based violence and support to disadvantaged groups and minorities with experience of networks contributing the implementation of SOB bill in Somaliland.
The project supports the capacity of women on agriculture production, savings, supply chain and business development, which will be enhanced through intervention outlined in the call for proposal. The project will support in adopting a multi-pronged approach in addressing GBV and strengthening the resilience of women in crises affected communities in Somalia.
It will help strengthen “multi-sectoral responses” to provide quality information and access to GBV services by various stakeholders specifically in the areas of health, psychosocial support, law enforcement (police, prosecutors and justice departments) and social services including shelter and livelihoods support.
The programme supports the women in their drive for realization of rights as citizens. The Civil Society Organizations (CS0s), in particular women’s organizations, play a crucial role in the promotion of women’s rights, gender equality and specifically, women rights and their protections, which are key for the provision of services that are essential in the establishment of coordinated mechanisms to adequately respond to the need’s women survivors of violence.
Additionally, women’s organizations are instrumental – in terms of their networks, outreach, and innovation – to facilitate the required behavioral and attitudinal changes that tackle structural barriers to gender equality and end of SGBV in Somaliland.
Funding Information
- For Kismayo and Baidoa (one Women led CSO): The budget range for this proposal should be $65,000-$70,000 under the Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access, and Protection (LEAP) project in Somalia.
- For Somaliland (one Women led CSO): The budget range for this proposal should be $40,000 (Maximum) under the Joint Rule of law Programme, Somaliland-Law Value Grant.
- The project is to last tentatively from 1 August 2021— 31 December 2021.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required.
- The Call for Implementing Partners is open to Women led CSOs in Somalia/Somaliland. Applications are encouraged particularly from women’s organizations which focus on:
- Evidence-based programming, building on lessons learned and recommended practices, to ensure optimal results and use of resources.
- Human rights-based and gender-responsive approaches that place first priority on promoting, protecting and fulfilling the human rights of women and girls as well as strengthening institutional capacities at local levels to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women.
- Focus on disadvantaged groups, including those living in poverty or otherwise especially excluded, and ensuring responsiveness to diversity.
- Coordination and multi-sectorial partnerships, including among government organizations, nongovernmental organizations, women’s and other civil society groups.
- Commitment to sharing knowledge, by documenting, evaluating and disseminating results, and working with UN Women staff.
- Priority placed on sustainability of results.
- Experience in working with the rule of law institutions in the area of strengthening women capacity in justice, security, legal aid, protections and advocacy on women and girls rights, ending violence against Women, harmful practices and as well as support to development of laws and strengthening legal systems programme or related fields.
- Applying partners must introduce a section for knowledge management to showcase how they will mobilize, disseminate and ensure action from knowledge generated from this project.
- The Call for Implementing Partners is open to Women led CSOs in Somalia/Somaliland. Applications are encouraged particularly from women’s organizations which focus on:
- Other competencies, which can be an asset for the performance of services:
- Transformation of inequitable gender norms and power disparities between women and men, and empowerment of women and girls to thrive as equals through women associations in Somaliland regions.
- Holistic responses that address women and girls’ inter-related rights and needs, including safety, access to justice and promotion and protection of the women girl’s rights through formal justice system and informal mechanisms.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2021/06/call-for-proposals—implementing-leap-in–somalia-and-jrol-project-activities-in-somaliland