Deadline: 30/04/24
The UN Women is inviting applications to strengthen the institutional capacity of a civil society organization working in the area of increasing women’s political participation.
The grant is expected to increase the resource and capacity of an eligible CSO to address Violence Against Women in Politics and there by advance the rights of women to participate in public and political life and enable them to become agents of transformative change towards an equitable society.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be US$ 55,000.00 – 57,000.00
- Duration
- The duration of the partnership agreement is from May – June 2024
Services Required/Result
- UN Women is requiring (a) national Responsible partner(s) to carry out engagement sessions for CSOs, media practitioners, Members of Parliament (MPs), and the Women’s Parliamentary Caucus on VAWP and on mental health/wellbeing for women in politics.
Eligibility Criteria
- Technical/functional competencies required;
- The organisation must have professionals with proven records:
- In-depth technical knowledge and understanding of gender and development with some knowledge of government socio economic policies including the recently adopted National Development Strategy 1, international and regional gender equality frameworks
- Knowledge and experience in facilitating, conducting trainings and development of programme management tools to measure impact
- Experience managing and facilitating national consultative processes working with diverse groups
- Experience working with or engaging state actors in gender equality, women’s leadership and empowerment
- Programme staff with Graduate degrees in the areas of Development Studies, Social Sciences, Gender, Women’s Law, Law or any other relevant field.
- Qualified training and experience on mental health issues.
- The eligible CSOs should also meet the legal, programmatic and technical criteria defined below:
- Documented relevant programmatic experience for at least 5 years within the area of women’s political participation.
- Demonstrates experience in facilitating constructive and inclusive engagement and dialogue processes with the goal of contributing to socio-economic development.
- Proven experience facilitating high level as well as community and grass root consultative workshops for Governmental Institutions, development partners, Chapter 12 Institutions, community-based organisations and CSOs.
- Experience working on inclusive politics in a fragile context, with demonstrated ability to deliver.
- Knowledge and experience in programme design and management, community mobilization, organizational development.
- Experience with carrying out logistically complex initiatives.
- An established organizational culture of accountability and commitment to delivery of results
- Administrative and financial capacity to manage budgets of more than $50,000 annually supported with a track record of quality and timely project results and unqualified audit reports in the preceding 2 years.
- Demonstrable capacity – human, financial and technical to deliver results at national level.
- Duly registered under the laws of Zimbabwe including at the submission/close of this call.
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