Deadline: 04-Mar-22
UN Women is calling for proposals to provide services associated with the UN WOMEN requirement for Responsible Party (Non-Governmental Organization, Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and Academic Organizations).
UN Women’s goal in Liberia is to promote women’s human rights and gender equality which are key in sustaining and furthering achievements in stability and development.
In this regard, UN Women Biennial Workplan 2022-2023 is connected to five corporate priority areas: women’s leadership and political participation; enhancing women’s economic empowerment (WEE); engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes (WPS); advancing women’s rights to live free from violence (VAW) and Gender-responsive Budgeting and Governance (GRB).
GRB in recent time has emerged globally as a tool for creating a direct linkage between social and economic policies through a gender analysis of plans and budgets for an inclusive impact. Liberia’s national policy on gender responsive planning and budgeting describes the impediments to national planning and budgeting and recognizes the national budget as a powerful tool when combined with planning interventions for achieving development objectives.
Activity Target Group
The selected IP/RP will work with the following target groups;
- CSOs including women’s rights and other marginalized group institutions that are interested and committed to dedicate time for gender-responsive budget reporting in pilot ministries ;
- Research and academic institutions;
- Parliamentary Committees on gender, budget, education, agriculture and health;
- Legislative Budget Office (LBO); and
- Women Legislative Caucus.
Key Deliverables
Key deliverables shall include but are not limited to the following.
- Work plan developed within five working days after beginning the assignment.
- Gender- responsive shadow budget paper developed on three key sectors (Health, Education, and Agriculture)
- Monitor and report on the gender-responsiveness of the implementation of the national budget FY2022; and
- Gender- budget analysis of FY2023 draft national budget developed and presented to the National Legislature
- Final report submitted containing results, challenges, knowledge, skills, recommendations, and action plan to advocate for gender responsive budget.
Duration
11 Months beginning from April 01, 2022– December 30, 2022.
Criteria
- Reputation of Organization and Staff:
- Documented successful track record (for newly formed organizations, the personnel to be assigned to the UN Women project should have a proven track record of 5 years in the subject field);
- A proven commitment to results (able to provide records of successful projects);
- Proven credibility in the country or region or in the original country of location, especially credibility in terms of working towards gender responsive planning and budgeting, gender equality, women’s rights and economic empowerment.
- General Organizational Capability:
- Strength of project management on conducting successful and standard trainings to advocate for Gender Responsive Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring to address VAWG, SGBV/HP and promote Women and Girls’ SRHR;
- Track record in advocating for gender equality and strategy to address VAWG, SGBV/HP and promote Women and Girls’ SRHR
- Track record of working in transparency and accountability;
- Record and evidence of organizational culture of accountability, such as a written code of conduct, measures on anti-corruption and sexual harassment policy;
- A track record of delivering quality and timely project results.
- Organizational expertise in the area of specified programme:
- Evidence that the organization can conduct quality trainings on GRB and, handholding and other needed support to the clients of the project or previous experience and expertise of successfully managing projects of same nature.
- Accountability and Financial Control:
- A functioning internal control framework and process to deliver quality and timely project results.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=88029