Deadline: 12-Mar-2023
UN Women Ethiopia Country Office is seeking to identify two (2) Responsible Parties (RP) to scale up humanitarian support and socio-economic recovery for women and girls in the conflict-affected areas of Northern Ethiopia, including the Tigray region.
Project Target
- Increase conflict-affected women and girls’, including survivors of CRSV / GBV, meaningful access to quality comprehensive services, including protection, second chance education, and livelihood opportunities.
Objectives
- Strengthen available gender data and evidence to inform and strengthen gender-equality programming in Tigray
- Strengthen GBV referral pathways and increase awareness of communities and service providers on GBV and survivor-centered support.
- Improve availability, accessibility, and quality of essential services, including livelihood support, psycho-social services and promote empowerment of women and girls’ survivors
- Improve access to sustainable economic empowerment opportunities including through formal education, vocational training, and employment pathways for women and girls affected by conflict.
Funding Information
- For SGBV Survivor Centred Response Services (result cluster one) – USD 150,000
- For Second Chance Education and entrepreneurship (result cluster two) – USD 120,000
Outcomes
- Project outcome UN Women welcomes proposals from humanitarian CSOs, NGOs and INGOs to provide services to implement the aforementioned tasks under the following results framework:
- Outcome 1. Women and girl survivors of CRSV/GBV benefit from the provision of and access to quality comprehensive services, including livelihood support
- Output 1.1 – (Result cluster One) Increased evidence-based analysis to inform and strengthen gender-equality programming in the humanitarian response and community peace-building efforts.
- Output 1.2 – (Result cluster One) CRSV/GBV survivors have increased knowledge of and access to available quality, multi-sectoral services including livelihood support
- Outcome 2 Conflict-affected women and girls have greater access to Second Chance Education (SCE), vocational skill training and other livelihood opportunities
- Output 2.1 – (Result cluster Two) Conflict affected women and girls access and benefit from high quality educational content, material and learning pathways as a result of second chance education
- Output 2.2 Technical and operational capacity of actors (legislative bodies, executive bodies, CSOs private and Community based organizations) on gender mainstreaming and capacity to support conflict affected women producers, enterprises and cooperatives improved.
- Output 2.3 Improved access to financial and non-financial services and productive resources/technologies for conflictaffected women and girls.
- Outcome 1. Women and girl survivors of CRSV/GBV benefit from the provision of and access to quality comprehensive services, including livelihood support
Competencies
- UN Women Ethiopia is looking to partner with CSOs, NGOs and INGOs registered and operating in Ethiopia to carry out the activities listed in this CFP. The implementing partner must have the following technical and functional competencies.
- Technical competencies required
- Legally constituted CSO with a valid registration in Ethiopia and in operation for at least five years
- Operational experience in Northern Ethiopia (Tigray, Amhara, Afar): the organization must have demonstrated capability to work in hard-to-reach parts of the country with a capacity to deliver tailormade, needs based activities for women community members with diverse needs and backgrounds using a conflict sensitive and do no harm approach
- Demonstrated experience in implementing gender mainstreaming programmes in humanitarian settings
- Demonstrated experience in working with humanitarian agencies and local and regional governance structures in Ethiopia
- Proven compliance and capacities to implement according to the Inter-agency standing committee (IASC) minimum standards on GBV in emergencies, protection against sexual exploitation and abuse, accountability to affected populations, and core humanitarian principles
- Proven track record of strategic partnerships with local women’s rights organisations and women’s CSOs in Northern Ethiopia
- Capacity to produce quality monitoring and reporting
- Other competencies, that can be an asset for the performance of activities
- Established strategic partnerships with key actors from Government, civil society and community organizations and groups in Northern Ethiopia
- Demonstrated experience in implementing programmes on economic empowerment, skills training and GBV is desirable
- Demonstrated experience in gender assessments is desirable
- Previous working experience with United Nations is desirable
- Technical competencies required
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