Deadline: 6-Apr-22
The UN Women Multi-Country Office (MCO) – Caribbean, seeks to partner with a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to provide support to women’s rights groups, CSOs, and relevant stakeholders to share knowledge, network, partner and jointly advocate for GEWE and ending VAWG, including family violence, with relevant stakeholders at sub-national, national, regional and global levels.
The overall goal of the Spotlight Initiative in Jamaica is to reduce Family Violence. Guided by the ecological theory that underpins the connections between family and society, the ecological model is used to address the causes, consequences, and response to family violence, as well as the issue of normalization of violence in Jamaica, so that family violence is seen and treated as a public issue.
The initiative will focus its intervention in four parishes exposed to high level of violence: St. Thomas, Clarendon, Westmoreland and the Kingston and St. Andrew Metropolitan Area.
The key pillars of the Spotlight Initiative include:
- Pillar 1: Laws and Policies
- Pillar 2: Institutional Capacities
- Pillar 3: Social Norms and Behaviors
- Pillar 4: Services
- Pillar 5: Data Availability and Usage
- Pillar 6: Women’s Rights Groups, Autonomous Social Movements and CSOs
In Jamaica, UN Women will lead on Pillars 5 and 6; UNDP will lead on Pillars 1 and 2; UNICEF will lead on Pillar 3; and UNFPA will lead on Pillar 4.
Funding Information
Resources are being made available within the SI, for a CSO to facilitate connectivity to create a “Spotlight CSO Community of Practice” in the Caribbean through South-South exchanges within the Caribbean for Women’s Rights Organizations and Social Justice Organisations. CSOs are invited to:
- Host hybrid sessions (virtual and in-person) between gender equality and social justice organizations in Jamaica with counterpart organizations in other Caribbean Spotlight countries to share joint strategies, lessons learned, best practice and advocacy tools. (1 OSC: USD 34,000)
- Support the integration of grassroots organizations, rural CSOs and CBOs in South-South discourse (USD 35,500)
Skills
- Technical/functional competencies required ;
- Responsible Party must be a Registered Non-Governmental Organization.
- At least 3 years’ experience implementing initiatives on human rights, community development, gender equality and women’s rights, including the elimination of violence against women and girls.
- At least 3 years’ experience working within communities and with key and vulnerable stakeholders.
- At least 3 years’ experience hosting conferences, sensitization or capacity strengthening sessions on human rights issues, gender equality and violence against women.
- At least 3 years’ experience working in Jamaica
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Previous experience working with the United Nations.
Eligible Criteria
- UN-WOMEN invites qualified parties to submit Technical and Financial Proposals to provide services associated with the UN-WOMEN requirement for Responsible Party.
- UN-Women is soliciting proposals from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Women’s organizations or entities are highly encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit https://caribbean.unwomen.org/en/stories/news/2022/03/spotlight-jamaica-call-for-proposal-cfp-001-for-civil-society-organizations-csos