Deadline: 30-May-22
UN Women is seeking an implementing partner to conduct mapping of one-stop centres and institutions delivering essential gender-based violence (GBV) services in the three states and their role in provisioning of services especially during COVID-19, to develop guidelines on essential GBV service provisions during COVID-19, and to equip 1000 frontline functionaries across three select states.
UN Women seeks the services of an organisation to support in equipping One Stop Centres and related service providers in select states in India with sufficient knowledge and capacity to enhance the provision of response operating in a highly sensitive and complex environment during COVID-19.
Funding Information
The budget range for this proposal should be INR 29,00,000 to INR 31,00,000.
Outcome: Enhanced institutional capacities of governance institutions to prevent and respond to all forms of violence against women.
Activities
- Mapping of OSCs and institutions delivering essential GBV services in the three states and their role in provisioning of services especially during COVID-19.
- Develop a framework of model OSCs and create monitoring and evaluation for these institutions after a process of validation from experts. The selected organization will share a potential list of experts in the field of gender-based violence/ violence against women with the UN Women ending violence against women (EVAW) unit and after finalization of the list will hold a deliberation for the experts to finalize the monitoring and evaluation framework draft created by the organization.
- Develop state-specific training manual/guide for first responders/staff of OSCs/others on survivor-centric response in the context of COVID-19 in English and local languages (Tamil, Hindi, and Punjabi)
- Develop guidelines in English and local languages (Tamil, Hindi, and Punjabi) on how to provide services safely during the pandemic, including COVID-safe women’s spaces, shelters for GBV survivors, and client counselling through virtual mediums suitable to the Indian context.
- Equip existing OSCs and strengthen the capacity of OSC and other stakeholders ( including but not limited to Institutions such as 181 Helpline/state-specific helplines, Special Cells, Family Counselling Centers (FCC), Shelter Homes, DPOs, as well as State-specific scheme personnel) and safe spaces for women, through training to address needs of Women and Girls at risk and/or Survivors of GBV to approach such frontline government personnel/staff
Geographical Focus
The programme will implement activities in the states of Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh in India.
Competencies
- Organizational experience and competencies:
- The organization must have a minimum 7 years of experience in training and capacity building.
- Substantial experience of working with Central Ministries, State Departments, and other government agencies for implementing training and capacity building programs across any of the 3 project states -Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh
- It is desirable that the organization has prior experience of working in two out of the three states or if they have had partnerships with grassroots organizations in the specified states working on the issue of SGBV and survivor centric approaches.
- Substantial experience in delivering high quality training to professionals and functionaries, especially OSCs.
- Evidence of implementation of training and capacity building programs with frontline functionaries in at least two of the project states in last 3 years is desired.
- The organization should have trained minimum 2000 individuals across sectors in the last 3 years under various Govt./Corporate funding and at least 1000 individuals on issues related to Gender based violence.
- Qualifications and Competencies of Team Leader:
- The team manager must have 7 years of experience at National level working with development and implementation of Training and Capacity Building projects including leading research, hands-on experience of design, implementation and monitoring/evaluation of projects, training coordination and management, for sectors including women frontline functionaries.
- Qualifications and Competencies of Team Leader:
- Team members must have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in coordinating projects and/or capacity building through training, preferably on Violence against women, Gender Equality and Women Empowerment projects is desirable.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2022/05/call-for-proposals-unw-ap-ind-cfp-2022-005-training-and-capacity-building-india