Deadline: 4-Apr-23
UN Women now invites sealed proposals from qualified proponents for Promoting feminist action for socio-economic recovery from Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-resilient livelihoods.
The project will provide various technical support and transformative leadership development opportunities to open-up employment opportunities and expand women’s income generation options, leading to their economic autonomy and leadership. The capacity development activities should further strengthen their capability to adapt to climate change and improve their economic condition after the setbacks caused by disasters and/or COVID-19. Specifically, the project should address key components as bellow:
- Empowering most vulnerable women groups including, but limited to, women affected by HIV, migrant workers or former migrant workers especially those living in climate vulnerable, and disaster affected areas to enable them to exercise their rights and to express their voice and demand accountability from duty bearers and service providers to develop a gender-responsive plan and budget that responds to the gender-specific needs and reduce vulnerabilities. There should be an emphasis on capacity development, creating space for dialogue between right holders (especially women, girls and people identified with other genders) and duty bearers (local authorities).
- Creating space and opportunity for financial recovery. This includes providing technical capacity development which allows vulnerable women group to have better employment viability, economic autonomy and reach their leadership potential admits to post Covid-19 situation. The technical capacity development should cover but limited to, financial literacy and management and job search skill.
- Promoting women vulnerable group’s climate change adaptation and resilient livelihood activities and capacity to lead in the matter. This includes strengthening of resilience, and livelihood capacity while supporting women to take lead and engage to decision making in climate change and disaster management activities.
- Creating enabling environment to support vulnerable women group’s livelihood through community gender transformative actions including holding dialogue with men, the community and local authorities to address gender and power dynamics at household level to enable men to take responsibility in sharing domestic, care work, to prevent violence against women and create women economic autonomy.
Priorities
The UN Women Cambodia Country Office (CCO) Strategic Note (SN) 2019-2023 focuses on three key priorities to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE).
- The first priority is to strengthen government capacity and accountability to integrate international norms and commitments (CEDAW, SDGs, Beijing PfA, Sendai) into national legislative and regulatory frameworks, including supporting dialogue and CSO engagement in accountability for GEWE commitments.
- The second area of focus is Ending Violence Against Women where CCO’s focus includes creating an enabling environment to prevent, respond to and prosecute all forms of GBV as well as ensuring that marginalised women who experience violence, including women migrant workers, access services and protections.
- Thirdly, CCO works to enhance gender responsiveness in climate change action and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). A focus on empowerment, women’s leadership, challenging negative gender norms and leaving no one behind runs through the programme.
Objective
The overall objective of the project is to promote gender-responsive socio-economic recovery responding to Covid-19 impact and implement gender responsive and inclusive climate change adaptation and resilient livelihood through women leadership.
The specific project’s objectives are as below:
- To increase technical and leadership capacity among most vulnerable women in the target communities for viable employment opportunities.
- To strengthen feminist climate change action particularly promoting climate resilient and adaptive livelihood among vulnerable women groups.
- To create enabling environment for positive gender transformation in the community through men and community engagement including local authorities.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be [45,000-50,000 USD].
- The tentative project duration is 18 months which will start from 01 May 2023- 30 September 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
- At least 05 years of experience in procuring and implementation of similar activities.
- Reputed nationally registered organization with representative office in Cambodia and can conduct outreach in mentioned areas of intervention.
- Proven track record of working in women empowerment and gender equality.
- Proven track record of working in the target provinces is an advantage.
- Proven working with most vulnerable women group including women affected by HIV/AIDs, women migrant workers and former women migrant workers is preferred.
- Proven have experience working in climate change resilience-livelihood building is an advantage
- Previous working experience with UN agencies or other international development agencies is an advantage.
- Ability to communicate in local language.
- A verifiable reputation of integrity and competence.
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