Deadline: 20-Aug-20
The UN Women has announced a call for proposals for responsible parties (Responsible parties) within the framework of the Project “Creating new avenues of resilience to sustain peace from Kaqchiqueles, Q’eqchi’s and mestizo women”, an institutional accompaniment component to improve the response and preventing conflict drivers and emerging and continued tactics of violence against women.
The CFP aims to strengthen security and justice sector institutions to respond to systematic and emerging tactics targeting indigenous and mestizo women peacebuilders in traditional and new terrains, such as the cyberterritories. It also addresses the need to support women’s initiatives in alliance with State institutions to prevent and respond to conflict and post-conflict sexual violence and to sustain gains in attaining justice and the strengthening of accountability.
The organization will be responsible for executing activities that contribute to the development of products to achieve the project results, as well as the scope of their corresponding indicators, ensuring the coordinated work, empowerment, and leadership of women, who are to the center of the project.
The activities of the proposal must have coverage in the departments of Chimaltenango, Alta Verapaz, and Guatemala.
Result 1: Indigenous and mestizo women, peacemakers and pioneers, are empowered as protagonists to disrupt the drivers of conflict, including hate speech, violence, and repressive tactics.
Output 1.2: Intergenerational and multicultural transformative initiatives created to disrupt the hate speech and promote urban, rural, and cyber protection strategies.
Funding Information
The budget for this proposal must range from:
- Result 1
- Product 1.2: GTQ 363,800.00 – GTQ 363,825.00
- Output 3.1: GTQ 137,214.00 – GTQ 138,600.00
- Outcome 3
- Output 3.2: GTQ 114,345.00 – GTQ 115,500.00
- Product 3.3: GTQ 457,380.00 – GTQ 502,425.00
Duration
- The proposal must be designed for a seven-month implementation, starting on 25 September 2020 and ending April 30, 2021.
Competencies
Required technical/functional skills
- International non-governmental organization or consortium of non-governmental organizations, with technical personnel, specialized in human rights, women’s rights, rights of children. With demonstrable experience in accompanying processes for implementation and management of international cooperation projects, providing training, technical assistance, and support in processes related to disappearance, cybercrime, sexual violence, exploitation, and other forms of violence against women and girls, their prevention and protection; and management of subsidies.
- Technical and multidisciplinary team for the implementation of the Project with work experience in the project intervention area, command of local languages, and knowledge of the local context.
- Experience in the articulation of alliances with international and local actors, institutions public sector security and justice, with the private sector, academia, enforcement agencies of the law, and non-governmental organizations.
- Demonstrable experience in preparing publications, systematization documents, and Knowledge product related to the project intervention area.
- Demonstrable experience in preparing financial reports, reports of the use of the funds, management of supporting accounting documentation.
- Experience in capacity building/implementation of initiatives with organizations of women.
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