Deadline: 17-Mar-23
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) Moldova Office plans to contract an organization (Civil Society Organizations, registered in Moldova) or a Consortium of organizations to assure that refugee women and girls at risk benefit from timely, accessible, quality GBV prevention and response services and gender-responsive humanitarian action.
Over the next period UN Women will continue contributing to increasing resilience and agency of women and girls in all their diversity, both refugee and local, especially the most vulnerable and affected by the crisis, through access to gender-responsive humanitarian assistance and tailored livelihood programs and benefiting from integrated gender responsive, localized and women-cantered protection and development opportunities.
With the respect to leaving no one behind approach, the Responsible Party, will contribute to direct services provision to women and girls, GBV survivors and those fleeing from the war in Ukraine, to assure that they benefit from timely, accessible, quality GBV prevention and response services and gender-responsive humanitarian action. All activities will be coordinated with other responsible partners to be selected under the project mentioned above in order to ensure synergetic approach towards the overall intervention.
Interventions will be carried out in five locations around Moldova, in areas with limited coverage of such services and will target women refugees and local women and girls from underrepresented groups including but not limited to minority women, female single-headed households, women with disability, women leaving with HIV, GBV survivors, LGBTQUIA+, expectant and nursing mothers, elderly women.
Funding Information
- The total budget available for this call for proposal is of up to USD 100,000.
- Timeframe:
- The proposals are expected to start from April 2023 and be implemented within a period of maximum 9 months and to be completed not later than end of December 2023.
Expected Results
- Project Outcome: Women and girls in all their diversity, both refugee and local, especially the most vulnerable and affected by the crisis, have increased resilience and agency due to access to gender-responsive humanitarian assistance and tailored livelihood programs and benefit from integrated gender-responsive, localized and women-centred protection and development opportunities.
- Project Output (3): Refugee women and girls at risk benefit from timely, accessible, quality GBV prevention and response services and gender-responsive humanitarian action.
- Through this Call for Proposal, UN Women Moldova is seeking to contract an organization (Civil Society Organizations, registered in Moldova) or a Consortium of organizations to fulfil the following suggested activities, but not limiting to:
- Strengthen the case management by applying intersectoral Protocols and referral pathways based on national legal framework for refugees and host communities through mentorship, peer support among NGOs and service providers, including final beneficiaries
- Provide structured group and individual psychosocial and legal assistance, to GBV survivors in all their diversity, especially the most vulnerable and affected by the crisis
- Provide gender-responsive humanitarian assistance to women and girls in the 5 districts, based on vulnerability and needs assessment conducted in project inception phase
- Provide institutional support to local women-led and women rights organizations to support their capacity building and strengthen organizational development, enabling them to provide timely and quality services to women and girls in all their diversity, especially the most vulnerable and affected by the crisis
- Carry out awareness raising activities targeting frontline workers on referral pathways and existent livelihoods opportunities in the selected communities
Competencies
- Proponents must meet all mandatory requirements/pre-qualification criteria.
- Proponents will receive a pass/fail rating on this section. UN WOMEN reserves the right to verify any information contained in proponent’s response or to request additional information after the proposal is received. Incomplete or inadequate responses, lack of response or misrepresentation in responding to any questions will result in disqualification.
- Technical/functional competencies required:
- Knowledge and experience of for at least 3 years in implementing activities on the direct support to survivors of gender-based violence in Moldova. Experience in managing and implementing direct support/humanitarian area projects will be considered an advantage;
- Team of experts (team leader, direct support specialists, trainers, consultants, coachers, and/or other relevant staff) with at least two years of experience in the areas of expertise for which they were contracted;
- Proven in-house experience in rehabilitation/(re)integration of survivors of violence/abuse and women/girls empowerment programmes;
- Experience of supporting refugees, migrants, vulnerable and/or underrepresented groups will be considered an advantage;
- Presence in the region and/or experience of working at local and community level, in partnership with community-based organisations from different regions of the country;
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services:
- Previous experience managing grants/partner agreements from UN agencies, INGOs or international organizations.
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