Deadline: 27-Jul-22
UN Women is seeking applications for the Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Programme.
The aim of the WRD Programme is to ensure that women’s and girls’ lives and livelihoods are disaster-resilient, contributing to sustainable and secure communities, by promoting gender responsive prevention, preparedness and recovery systems, plans and tools; and by enabling targeted action to help women and girls withstand hazards and threats, recover fully from disasters and increase their resilience to future risks.
The Women’s Resilience to Disasters programme will be implemented at the country level (Fiji, Vanuatu, and Kiribati) as well as the regional level, and it builds upon and leverage existing interventions. The programme will help shift the narrative away from women and girls as vulnerable victims, and instead foster women’s participation and leadership in climate action.
This call is for expressions of interest from partners who wish to work in the implementation of the Women’s Resilience to Disasters Programme in Fiji between 2022 to 2025.
Focus Areas
- Strengthen women’s livelihoods and women’s economic empowerment
- Strengthen climate-smart agriculture, fishery and marine resource management skills and enhance links to value chains for women to ensure food, water, marine resource, and land security.
- Identify options for cash-for-work initiatives for recovery to ensure they are available to disaster affected women and marginalized groups including persons with disability and survivors of gender-based violence.
- Support options for maintaining resources on which women depend for income and food security.
- Strengthening early warning systems, disaster preparedness and management
- Develop communication products on evacuation centres, prioritising marginalised groups to ensure everyone knows when and where to move.
- Develop safeguard guidelines for evacuation centres to ensure women, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are protected
- Support capacity development on safeguarding (psycho-social support) during and after events/disasters and as climate change impacts worsen.
- Undertake gender analysis of existing and/or planned early warning systems to strengthen coverage and reach.
- Support and harness the use of traditional knowledge
- Capacity building in knowledge and skills on use of internet/social media to access information regarding early warning for women, girls and at-risk groups
Funding Information
The proposals are expected to cover a period of minimum 2 years (24 months) with a minimum budget of 100,000 USD and a maximum budget of 250,000 USD.
Outcomes
The expected end-of-programme outcomes are:
- Prevention, preparedness and recovery systems, plans and tools are gender-responsive through women’s leadership in DRR, women’s enhanced influence in DRR decision-making, enhanced gender capacity of DRR and climate resilience stakeholders, increased access to knowledge, guidance and expertise on gender-responsive disaster resilience, and strategic partnerships and networks for women’s agency and leadership in DRR; and
- Women and girls are prepared to withstand natural hazards, climate change and COVID-19, recover from disasters and increase their resilience to future risks, through gender-responsive early warning systems, gender targeted and mainstreamed services for women’s resilience, women’s informal and formal climate and disaster resilient businesses, women’s increased access to climate and disaster resilient livelihoods and strategic partnerships for resilient livelihoods.
Eligibility Criteria
The Expression of Interest is open to:
- Non-Government Organizations (national/local)
- International Non-Government Organizations
- Academic institutions
- UN agencies
- Inter-governmental institutions not part of the UN System
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2022/07/expression-of-interest-unw-ap-fji-eoi-2022-001-womens-resilience-to-disasters
