Deadline: 15-Jun-22
UN Women Nigeria has announced a calls for proposals to facilitate and promote access to COVID-19 prevention and mitigation opportunities for women and girls, particularly in the humanitarian settings within North East Nigeria.
The project’s ultimate goal is to reduce the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on women and girls by promoting gender-responsive COVID-19 prevention and mitigation measures.
Objectives
UN Women will focus on the following mutually reinforcing strands of work, including:
- Increasing awareness and access to information on COVID-19 prevention and mitigation among women most affected by the COVID-19 resurgence and humanitarian emergencies.
- Promoting women’s participation in decision-making to inform the COVID-19 response plans.
- Enhancing women’s access to the COVID-19 prevention and mitigation tools, including PCR and/or rapid antigen test kits, vaccines and personal protective equipment; and
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be $200,000-250,000.
- Project is for a period of 8 month starting from July 2022-February 2023.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required.
- Reputation of Organisation and Staff
- Documented successful track record (for newly formed organizations, the personnel to be assigned to the UN Women project should have a proven track record of 5 years in the subject field);
- A proven commitment to results (able to provide records of successful projects);
- Proven credibility in the Northeast region, especially credibility in terms of working towards gender equality, Gender Based-Violence, Women Economic Empowerment, women’s rights, women, peace and security, Covid 19 response including prevention and response and/or Preventing Violent Extremism
- Reputation of Organisation and Staff
- General Organizational Capability:
- Strength of project management on creating or managing knowledge networks, convening a wide range of stakeholders, and generating policy advice.
- Track record of working with governments, civil society, UN, and other major multilateral or bilateral actors, other networks on Covid 19 prevention and response, strengthening women’s livelihood and leadership skills and preventing violent extremism.
- Record and evidence of the organizational culture of accountability, such as a written code of conduct, measures on anti-corruption and sexual harassment policy and accountability to the affected population.
- A track record of delivering quality and timely project results.
- Organizational expertise in specified programme Area:
- Evidence that the organization has previous experience and expertise of successfully managing projects of the same nature, related to GBV, capacitating women civil society networks, livelihood, women, peace and security, and prevention of violent extremism.
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services.
- Accountability and Financial Control:
- A functioning internal control framework and process to deliver quality and timely project results against budget.
- Accountability and Financial Control:
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