Deadline: 18-Jun-22
The UN Women Somalia Office is seeking applications to engage a Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working on strengthening the protection, leadership and empowerment of vulnerable women, men and youth affected by COVID-19 in IDP camps of Somalia.
UN Women Somalia calls for proposals for a project to be implemented in Mogadishu, Baidoa, Kismayo, and Garowe that seeks to promote COVID-19 prevention and mitigation measures, targeting women and girls in internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugee camps.
It will enhance leadership skills of internally displaced women and girls and develop their capacities for promoting gender responsive COVID-19 prevention and recovery support among crisis-affected women in Somalia.
The overall goal of this project is to ensure that women and girl refugees, IDPs are directly empowered to mitigate the impact of multiple crises on their livelihoods, protect themselves from exposure to GBV, and participate in decision-making processes within their communities.
Funding Information
- Slot1: The budget range for this proposal should be $170,000-$175,000.
- Slot2: The budget range for this proposal should be $85,000-$90,000.
Outcomes
- Slot 1: 8800 vulnerable women, men and youth lead and participate in COVID-19 prevention, response and recovery interventions in Somalia
- Slot 2: Improved leadership of 600 women and girls in COVID-19 prevention, response and recovery interventions in Somalia.
Competencies
The Call for Implementing Partners is open to CSOs and organization that has capacities to deliver and experts to the above required interventions. Applications are encouraged particularly from organizations which focus on:
- Evidence-based programming, building on lessons learned and recommended practices, to ensure optimal results and use of resources.
- COVID-19 preventions, protection, leadership and empowerment of vulnerable women, men and youth affected by COVID-19.
- Gender-responsive approaches that place first priority on vulnerable women, men and youth lead and participate in COVID-19 prevention, response and recovery interventions in Somalia.
- Focus on disadvantaged groups, including those living in IDPs, refugee camps or otherwise especially excluded, and ensuring responsiveness to diversity.
- Coordination and multi-sectorial partnerships, including among government organizations, nongovernmental organizations, women, and other civil society groups.
- Commitment to sharing knowledge, by documenting, evaluating, and disseminating results, and working with UN Women staff.
- The CSOs/organizations must clearly state the slot they are requesting. CSOs/organizations must submit separate proposals if the proponent requests more than one slot.
- Priority placed on sustainability of results.
- Experience in working on COVID-19 prevention and mitigation measures, targeting women and girls in IDP and refugee camps.
- Experience in working on leadership skills of IDP women and girls, capacity development to promote gender responsive COVID-19 prevention and recovery support among crisis affected women in Somalia.
- Applying partners must introduce a section for knowledge management to showcase how they will mobilize, linkages/synergy with ongoing similar interventions within or outside of the organization, disseminate and ensure action from knowledge generated from this project.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2022/06/call-for-proposals-unw-esa-som-cfp-2022-005-prevention-of-covid-19
