UN Women: Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment through Decentralization Reform of Ukraine

Deadline: 09-Aug-21

The UN Women has announced a call for proposals for non-governmental organization in cooperation with the associations of local self-governments of Ukraine to support the local self-governments in integration of gender equality and human rights-based approach to their local planning and budgeting processes.

The Government of Ukraine has declared decentralization reform as one of the main reforms. The reform goal is to establish effective local self-governments and territorial organization of power to create and maintain a beneficial living environment for citizens, provide them with high quality and affordable public services, establish institutions of direct democracy and harmonize the interests of the state and municipalities. This means that people and their rights in general, and vulnerable groups in particular, should be the focus of reform.

With the purpose to address the issues, UN Women developed the following recommendations and methodological products:

Gender recommendation to the legislation on decentralization and regional development
Rapid Gender Assessment (RGA) of COVID-19 implications in Ukraine
Policy research on implications of decentralization reform to gender equality and rights of women facing multiple forms of discrimination
Methodological recommendation on implementation of gender mainstreaming and HRBA at the level of local communities
Institutional capacity assessment of pilot local communities on implementation of gender mainstreaming and HRBA
Standard Gender Profile of local communities

Funding Information

The budget range for this proposal should be max. 30 000 USD.
Start date and end date for completion of required services/results: August 2021 – December 2022

Competencies

Technical/functional competencies required:
- The organization has a well-developed framework through which to deliver its vision and strategy and ensure effective business processes;
- Previous experience in conducting similar works/projects relevant to the scope and size of the current project;
- Previous experience of work with local self-governments institutions, line ministries, state agencies and Parliament of Ukraine;
- Previous experience in conducting gender/human rights advocacy and awareness raising campaigns at national, regional and local levels;
- Precious experience of organizing open dialogue platforms (national conferences) between LSGs, line ministries, Parliament and CSOs;
- Previous experience of work at the regional and local level and coordination of cooperation between different groups and organizations, including groups working on advocating of rights of vulnerable women;
- Previous experience of advocating integration of gender equality and human rights-based approach to decentralization reform and sustainable local development legislation and policy formulation.
- Reference letters on at least two relevant projects implemented in the past three years.
Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services:
- Previous experience of advocacy campaigns for the right of women from vulnerable groups.