UN Women Nepal: Call for Proposals for NGOs to Support the Gender-sensitive Transitional Justice Programme

Deadline: 12 July 2017

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) is currently inviting legally registered Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) to submit proposals to provide technical expertise to the gender-sensitive transitional justice programme through digital storytelling, artistic engagement, art exhibitions, skills trainings and consultative meetings and workshops.

Activities

• Advocate to address the needs of women survivors of gender based violence (GBV) including conflict related sexual violence (CRSV) through participatory documentation of their stories through digital storytelling as a truth telling tool.
• Develop and implement a skills training package targeting 20 identified women survivors of GBV including CRSV.
• Address the harms suffered by women survivors of CRSV victims through artistic memorialization of shared experiences using artistic engagement and an art exhibition as the medium.
• Roundtable launch of a digital story telling platform in Kathmandu with survivors, representatives of UN entities and the European Union in Nepal who are working on transitional justice and CRSV in Nepal including a dialogue on memorialization, and non-judicial reparations.

Duration

The tentative duration of the assignment is from 10 August to 30 November 2017

Eligibility Criteria

• A proposal can be submitted by a legally registered non-government organization or jointly by two or more registered NGOs.
• Proposal can be submitted by an NGO/ CSO which satisfy the following eligibility criteria:
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in developing and implementing programmes using storytelling to work toward the goal of women’s empowerment;
  • Experience in working with UN/ development agencies through programmes in areas of violence against women including gender based violence and conflict related sexual violence, and peacebuilding;
  • Experience working with survivors of gender based violence and conflict related sexual violence;
  • Expertise in the advocacy of survivors of conflict including conflict related sexual violence through storytelling via digital platforms;
  • Possess quality resources in the form of case stories of survivors of gender based violence and conflict related sexual violence;
  • Expertise to conduct quality meetings and workshops;
  • Prior experience of working with UN/development agencies.

How to Apply

Proposals must be submitted either via personal delivery or email at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit UN Women Nepal.