Deadline: 11-Sep-22
UN Women Sudan is seeking proposals with programme interventions that will support and engender the peace process in Blue Nile state by enhancing climate resilient livelihoods options for women, youth, and other marginalized groups, improving the local governance of natural resources by ensuring the full and equal representation of women, strengthening the local conflict resolution mechanisms that underpin the development prospects of all groups, leveraging women’s key role as actors of change by facilitating their engagement with different stakeholders, and promoting their agenda on gender-based violence, peace building, natural resource management, and economic empowerment.
This project aims to support and engender the peace process in Blue Nile state by enhancing climate resilient livelihoods options for women, youth and other marginalized groups, improving the local governance of natural resources by ensuring the full and equal representation of women, and strengthening the local conflict resolution mechanisms that underpin the development prospects of all groups. The project will promote the empowerment of women change agents, capitalizing on their important roles as natural resource managers and the increased economic and care burdens women face in the post-conflict context.
Component
- Using sequenced interventions, seeking to meet immediate livelihood needs first before engaging women in governance and peacebuilding activities, to both invest in climate-resilient livelihood options and to build trust with the community,
- Supporting training and capacity building for women in conflict mediation and resolution related to natural resources at local levels and linking these efforts to the broader peace architecture, and
- leveraging women’s participation in natural resource governance and management to shift community attitudes about the capacity of women to engage in leadershipand decision-making more broadly. This project will be implemented in 3 localities of Baw (Samsur and Dearang), Kurmuk(Alkaili and Gambarda) and Geissan (Daeem Saad and Yara).
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be 300.000 – 500.000 USD (Min. – Max.).
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required
- The potential partners submitting proposals should be legally registered women-led and non-government organizations (NGOs) and NGO specialized in gender with a proven record of innovative and high-impact programmes on the advancement of gender equality and transformation of gender roles, the strengthening of the women’s movement, specifically at community and grassroot level and the enhancement the role of women in peacebuilding.
- All applicants will have to demonstrate absorptive capacity and a financial management record commensurate with the grant request amount.
- Technical/Functional competencies required:
- Extensive experience in working on the women’s movement and women’s rights issues, including in economic, political, social or legal domains
- Solid experience working on GBV prevention, protection and response and building the capacity of justice sector, security sector, communities and service providers on GBV prevention, protection and response
- Experience in developing and implementing advocacy, capacity building and strategies on strengthening women’s movement
- Experience of working on access to justice to women ad specifically survivors of GBV.
- Track record of working with and organizing women who are most excluded from development and political process at community level
- Experience and track records on applying Results Based Management and its application to key processes (e.g., planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation)
- Experience in working in the targeted selected states
- Relevant experience in partnership with UN Women or other UN Agencies, government, CSOs networks and other development actors
- Have presence (an office with staff capacityOr have a partnership with a NGO with an office in Blue Nile) in the Blue Nile Region.
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/programme-implementation/2022/06/call-for-proposals-unw-esa-sdn-cfp-2022-002-supporting-sustainable-peace-in-blue-nile-state-sudan
