Deadline: 07-Aug-2020
The UN Women has announced a call for proposals for Delivery of Cash for Work Opportunities and Messages on COVID-19 Awareness to support cash-for-work opportunities for women and link these essential goods and services to organizations producing hygiene kits or providing health services in communities.
Alongside this, dissemination of COVID-19 prevention messages, including addressing misogyny, hate speech and shared care burden and engaging women as community health ambassadors.
Contribution to the UN Women Output: Women have access to life-saving information, resources, services and skills that will reduce the spread and the negative socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in communities at risk.
- Support cash-for-work opportunities for women such as the production of essential goods and provision of essential services to stem the spread of COVID-19, including masks, hand sanitizer, personal protective equipment, food production, and secure a basic income at the same time, and link these essential services to organizations producing hygiene kits or providing health services in communities;
- Develop and disseminate messages on COVID-19 awareness and prevention including through virtual capacity strengthening workshops to women advocates to acts as community health ambassadors; and,
- Develop storytelling, radio and digital campaigns with prevention messages on COVID-19 from the perspective of women and girls, including to address misogyny and hate speech and advocate for shared care burdens.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be not greater than USD 85,000.
Competencies
In the selection of partners, the following competencies will be considered:
- Legally constituted organization with a valid registration in the Philippines.
- Minimum 5 years in the field of addressing gender issues such as women’s economic empowerment, gender advocacy or gender-responsive humanitarian response.
- Previous experience in delivering humanitarian response; experience in livelihoods, economic empowerment, cash for work is desired.
- Previous experience in constructive collaboration with local/ sub-national/ national governments is required.
- Active presence in digital platforms such as websites, social media, is desired.
- Working experience with the United Nations or other international development organizations is desired.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/how-we-work/programme-implementation/2020/07/cfp-for-delivery-of-cash-for-work-opportunities-and-messages-on-covid-19-awareness