Deadline: 30-Apr-21
UN Women is looking for partnerships with NGO(s) to support Governmental Partners and CSOs in their efforts to implement the GEWE, WEE, WPP and WPS agenda.
UN Women Iraq aims to build on the results achieved to date and continue to work on developing the capacities of Iraqi women (including through organizing a training of trainers on the Women’s Political Leadership and Candidate Training Manual) to engage politically, giving voice to women in communities supporting them to run for elections and by voting, thus contributing to build more inclusive decision-making processes and governance structures.
UN Women Yemen focuses on promoting women’s leadership, including in COVID-19 response and recovery and by advancing women and youth’s participation in peacebuilding. Within this framework UN Women will continue to support women- and youth-led CSOs – including members of Tawafuq and the newly established Group of Nine (G9) Coalition – to engage in Track I and II peace efforts, in cooperation with the OSESGY and relevant national and international peace actors.
Objectives
To support Governmental Partners and CSOs in their efforts to implement the GEWE, WEE, WPP and WPS agenda. The objective falls under the following Impact Areas/SP Outcomes and Output Clusters:
- Impact Area 1 / SP Outcome 2: Women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems
- Impact Area 4 / SP Outcome 5: Women and girls contribute and have greater influence in building sustainable peace and resilience, and benefit equally from the prevention of natural disasters and conflicts and from humanitarian action.
- Impact Area 6 / SP Outcome 1: A comprehensive and dynamic set of global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is strengthened and implemented.
- OUTPUT CLUSTER 2 Increased engagement of partners in support of UN-Women’s mandate
Funding Information
The budget range for this proposal should be [Min. $400,000,000–Max. 500,000 $per NGO].
Outcomes
- Iraq
- Outcome 1.1 Gender Equality Advocates have increased influence in decision making and are better able to advance women’s rights
- Outcome 4.2 Iraqi government and stakeholders implement commitments on women, peace and security.
- Outcome 4.2.1 A conducive environment is enabled, and national institutions supported, to ensure validation, endorsement and implementation of a National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325
- Outcome 6.1 Iraqi government and civil society assess progress on implementation of normative and policy frameworks on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
- Output 2.1 Increased engagement of civil society, Governmental and youth partners in support of UN-Women’s mandate.
- Output 2.2. UN Women’s communication capacity provide a foundation for effective partnerships and engagement on gender equality and the empowerment of women
- Yemen
- Outcome 4.1 Yemeni women and Youth participate in and influence the peace and security processes in Yemen
- Outcome 6.1 Yemeni stakeholders assess progress made in implementation of norms, policies and standards on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls
Activities
- Support national and gender machineries and CSOs in planning and coordination with government and non-governmental partners.
- Support national gender machineries and CSOs in their advocacy and awareness raising efforts for the commemoration of GEWE (including National Women’s Day and 16 Days of Activism, Arab executive council meeting and others),WEE, WPP and WPS.
- Support gender machineries and relevant Ministerial bodies and CSOs in different governorates to implement their work on GEWE, WPP, WEE, and WPS including technical and capacity building support.
- Provide logistical and technical support to gender machineries to implement the work under GEWE,WEE, WPP and WPS.
- Support the gender machineries in their coordination work with other Ministries and Directorates (including organizing meetings and consultative meetings).
Note: proposed activities need to be adaptable to the evolving context, movement restrictions and available access. Selected organizations are expected to closely follow WHO and government-issued COVID-19 health guidelines, as well as including necessary sanitary supplies and disinfecting procedures in activities and budgets where appropriate.
Competencies
In the selection of partners, the following competencies will be considered:
- The soundness of technical competency described in the approach to the project as described in the Terms of Reference for the Call for Proposals, to be demonstrated by a track record of successful programmatic interventions
- Capacity to deliver expected results: governance and management competency, and financial and administrative competency, demonstrated by previous partnerships with UN Women orother donor organizations;
- The relevance of the mandate and the role of the organization to implement expected results and to contribute to the sustainability of said results, demonstrated by expertise in gender-related work and community outreach
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