Deadline: 7 January 2017
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) is seeking proposals from qualified proposers for a program entitled “Economic Empowerment of Women Survivors of Violence”.
UN Women firmly believes that addressing violence against women requires a multipronged approach of access to protection and justice, economic and social empowerment of women, creating enabling environment for women and girls through prevention of violence, and sound policy actions, and therefore, UN Women through its flagship programme Survivors’ Empowerment Journey (SEJ) seeks to address these approaches through the survivor-centered approach in the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) under its Development Result Framework (DRF).
The EVAW SEJ programme focuses on strengthening the quality of delivery of entry point services, including mechanisms for early mediation and reconciliation through Women Protection Centers (WPCs) and Family Guidance Centers (FGCs), access to improved protection, and economic empowerment support for successful and safe reintegration of survivors of Violence against Women (VAW) into communities, including families.
Objective
The objective of the program is to support women survivors of violence and women vulnerable to violence to enhance their capacities to earn income, provide them with capacities of leadership, finance management skills and help them access economic opportunities and livelihoods. One of the options is to achieve this goal through the Livelihood Resource Centre (LRC).
Activities/Tasks
- Develop a technical and sound approach for project implementation that is gender, age and culturally appropriate.
- The responsible party will be responsible for designing and delivering all project tasks in close consultation with UN women.
- Assess the need for and assist the graduates in post-training support such as business plan/proposal preparation, access to credit, product development, marketing, product promotion and other services related to the establishment of micro- and small-scale businesses with the assistance of programme partners as appropriate.
- Ensure that gender issues, disability and other relevant diversity issues are properly addressed in all aspects of the EVAW SEJ programme and provide or organize the necessary training for other staff on these issues.
- Supervise the delivery of training and post-training support and ensure prompt and adequate provision of resources and inputs necessary to undertake such activities;
- Establish and maintain close working relationship (at grassroots, sub-national and national levels) with Government Offices, donors, NGOs and even community members that are active in the promotion of women’s economic empowerment in general and skills training and related activities (credit in particular).
- Prepare monthly, quarterly progress as well as final reports and other monitoring reports as required; and ensure that the experiences of the EVAW SEJ programme are properly documented.
- Provide a sustainability plan of the activities being undertaken.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Applicant should provide the full CVs of its staff that will be deployed to this assignment.
- The Applicant must explain the experience of all key staff members that will be assigned, their specific areas of responsibilities and the extent to which the proposed staff member will remain engaged in this assignment.
- It is very important for the Applicant to have technical persons with experience on women’s economic empowerment and livelihoods in the context of Afghanistan.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must download the proposal form via given website.
Eligible Country: Afghanistan
For more information, please visit Economic Empowerment of Women Survivors of Violence.