Deadline: 20 July 2019
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)/Bangladesh has launched a call for proposals for its program entitled “Combating Gender Based Violence (CGBV)”.
The Combating Gender Based Violence in Bangladesh (CGBV) project recognizes that prevention of violence requires sustained and comprehensive action at individual, family, organizations and societal levels. The project will focus on primary prevention, stopping violence before it occurs, as it is a strategic approach to ending violence against women and girls.
CGBV intends to create a holistic framework of integrated and mutually reinforcing interventions to address the underlying causes and drivers of violence against women and girls; make duty bearers accountable to comply with international and national obligations addressing violence against women and promote their equal status in the society.
Outcomes
- National and local laws and policies to prevent violence against women are strengthened, if needed, and implemented
- Favourable social norms, attitudes and behaviours are promoted to prevent violence against women and enhance women’s economic empowerment.
- Policy and programming is increasingly informed by an expanded knowledge base on effective approaches to prevention of violence against women
Eligibility Criteria
- Proposals can only be submitted by non-governmental organizations registered in Bangladesh. Organizations can submit proposal as individual entity or as a consortium. For a consortium, there must be a lead agency and all participating agencies must comply with eligibility criteria. The Lead agency will submit the proposal on behalf of the consortium.
- Technical/functional competencies required
- Proven technical competencies in rule of law, advocacy, gender based violence (GBV) and women’s empowerment.
- Demonstrated experiences in implementing programmes on law reform, GBV, gender equality and women’s empowerment; and in formulating result oriented programmes, monitoring programme based on indicators and quality reporting
- Proven organizational experiences in building partnerships with women led organisations, other CSOs, government agencies and other non-traditional partners.
- Proven organizational experience in law reform advocacy, partnership and coordination.
- Demonstrates commitment to working with women and girls that are economically, politically, socially, culturally, or otherwise excluded, marginalized, and/or disempowered.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=56989