Deadline: 3-Oct-22
UN Women NCO seeks to partner with a civil society organization/consortium to provide support to Women living with HIV (WLHIV) and LGBTIQ+ community to challenge social stigma and facilitate access to quality services, including health.
This initiative is supported by UNAIDS Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF) global allocation and country envelope funding to protect and advance the rights of WLHIV and the LGBTIQ+ communities, a human rights-based approach must be adopted that prevents and protects them from GBV, stigma, and discrimination and ensure quality health services in a friendly environment.
Objectives
The overall objective of the initiative is to strengthen government response at local level to address gender-based violence, stigma, and discrimination faced by vulnerable women, women living with HIV/AIDs, and LGBTQI+ communities and to strengthen their access to quality essential health and other services through policy advocacy.
The specific objectives include the following.
- Strengthen the knowledge of WLHIV networks and LGBTIQ+ communities to challenge stigma, discrimination and GBV against women affected/living with HIV and LGBTIQ+ and access HIV prevention, care services and referral support.
- Strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders and first responders (e.g., selected government officials and Health care workers) to design and roll out gender responsive services to WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ community including GBV survivors.
Scope of Work
To achieve the objectives, the responsible party (RP) is expected to carry out the below activities in close collaboration with UN Women Nepal.
- Objective 1: Strengthen the knowledge of WLHIV networks and LGBTIQ+ communities to challenge stigma, discrimination and GBV against women affected / living with HIV and LGBTIQ+ and access HIV prevention, care services and referral support.
- Activity 1.1: Training and accompaniment support to WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ communities on protection and prevention of HIV and fighting stigma
- The responsible party will enhance the knowledge of members of WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ communities’ members on caring for themselves, ways of tackling their health problems (such as opportunistic infection), building their self-esteem, confidence, and power to fight back against stigma and the virus itself. This will be facilitated through 3-day training to 150 representatives from networks of WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ communities. This training session will leverage the intervention made under leadership and advocacy training by UN Women partner in 2022 where applicable and invest further to strengthen the knowledge of network members on protection/prevention as well as ways and approaches to fight stigmas.
- Deliverables:
- A detail plan of three-day training sessions.
- Delivery of training to 150 representatives from WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ community.
- Formation of five support groups and support for 10 monthly meetings for each group.
- Activity 1.2: Provide direct /referral support on health and other essential services
- The responsible party will support the network members with information on essential health services including psycho-social support, trauma counselling, GBV related support and legal aid and referral services to at least 250 members from the network of WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ community. For psycho-social counselling, the responsible party will recruit four certified psycho-social counsellors and mobilize them for tele-counselling or in person counselling in line with WHO ethical guidelines.
- Activity 1.3: Organize sensitization/awareness programmes to address harmful social norms that stigmatize WLHIV and the LGBTIQ+ communities.
- The responsible party will sensitize a group of 300 family and community members on harmful social norms and stigma related to WLHIV and the LGBTIQ + community. For community mobilization, the responsible party will design 36 community sessions (at least three community sessions for each groups 12 groups of 25 members in each).
- Deliverables:
- Adapt/develop reference guide for the community sessions.
- 36 community sessions organized for 300 community members, in a batch of 25 members in each group.
- Activity 1.1: Training and accompaniment support to WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ communities on protection and prevention of HIV and fighting stigma
- Objective 2: Strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders and first responders (e.g.selected government officials and Health care workers) to design and roll out gender responsive services to WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ community including GBV survivors.
- Conduct capacity development training of key stakeholders to design and roll out gender responsive services to WLHIV, LGBTIQ+ including response to GBV against the key population inclusive of WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ communities
- Interventions to address gender inequalities in some components of HIV treatment and care services will be taken forward that will promote both gender equality and health equity. Health care workers must be educated about the fair treatment towards WLHIV and the LGBTIQ+, so they do not perpetuate negative attitudes towards persons living with HIV. For this, health care workers will be trained through learning workshops which will be led by master trainer trained under UN Women previous work on WLHIV and LGBTIQ+.
- Deliverables:
- Capacity development training delivered to 100 health care personnel
- A multi-stakeholder dialogue to advocate for gender-responsive health policies
- The responsible party will organize two multi-stakeholder dialogues (at federal and provincial level) to advocate for the gender responsive health policies. The dialogue will bring together government stakeholders, service providers, right holders and other key stakeholders working on the issue of HIV/AIDS and LGBTIQ+ and lobby on the need to promote gender responsive health policies, including measures to ensure to prevent discrimination to WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ while accessing health services. This dialogue will build on the report/policy brief of the review exercise of health protocols and guidelines carried out of UN Women partner as a part of Country level joint workplan on HIV/AIDs work.
- Deliverables:
- Review and update of the policy brief on health protocols and guidelines/policies from gender lens.
- Two dialogue sessions conducted at federal and provincial level.
- Conduct capacity development training of key stakeholders to design and roll out gender responsive services to WLHIV, LGBTIQ+ including response to GBV against the key population inclusive of WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ communities
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be [USD 55,000- USD 65,000].
Eligibility Criteria
- UN Women is soliciting proposals from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).Women’s organizations or entities are highly encouraged to apply.
- A minimum of five years of demonstrable organizational experience in organizing WLHIV and LGBTIQ+ communities to challenge social stigmas, attitude and promoting their rights and dignity.
- Proven technical competencies in the application of human rights-based and feminist approaches to advance gender equality and for ensuring their voices and needs as rights-holders.
- Demonstrable experience in implementing programmes on gender equality, inclusion, and women’s empowerment, and in formulating result-oriented programme, monitoring programme based on indicators and quality reporting.
- Proven organizational experience inworking with women, girls, other genders that are economically, socially, culturally, or otherwise excludedand/or marginalized and building strategic partnerships, connections and networks with relevant partners, including government agencies, community-based organizations, CSOs at the provincial and local level.
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