Deadline: 14-Apr-23
UN Women is pleased to announce an open call for the Women’s Resilience to Disasters Programme to render women’s and girls’ lives and livelihoods disaster-resilient, contributing to sustainable and secure communities.
UN Women is in the process of identifying potential responsible parties for the implementation of the Women’s Resilience to Disasters Programme in Solomon Islands. UN Women is seeking to partner with a civil society organization to implement national priorities, which were identified through consultative processes.
The aim of the WRD Programme is to ensure that women’s and girls’ lives and livelihoods are disaster-resilient, contributing to sustainable and secure communities, by promoting gender responsive prevention, preparedness, and recovery systems, plans and tools; and by enabling targeted action to help women and girls withstand hazards and threats, recover fully from disasters, and increase their resilience to future risks.
The Women’s Resilience to Disasters programme is being implemented at the country level (Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Kiribati) as well as the regional level, and it builds upon and leverage existing interventions. The programme will help shift the narrative away from women and girls as vulnerable victims, and instead foster women’s participation and leadership in climate action.
Priority Areas
- This Call for Proposal (CfP) is issued to the potential partners with the capacity to carry out the direct implementation and may provide sub-contracting or sub partnering work with other civil society organizations, community organizations and women’s groups and networks to jointly implement the following priority areas of the WRD programme in Solomon Islands, which have been identified through a consultative process with national stakeholders during the previous phase of the WRD program in the country. The earlier phase of the project had highlighted a few priorities which were:
- Promoting Women’s leadership, voices, and mentoring in disaster risk reduction and climate change
- Localised capacity development and preservation of traditional knowledge
- Engage Men and boys in Social Norm Change
- The CfP is aimed at building partnership with grass roots organisation representing vulnerable community to build their community and facilitate their participation meaningful in the mainstream DRR activities and decision-making process.
Funding Information
- The proposal expected to cover a period of minimum 2 years (24 months) from 2023-2025 with a budget of $100,000 to $150,000 USD.
Outputs and Outcomes
- Government, local DRR stakeholders and women’s organisations are enabled to develop inclusive and gender-responsive preparedness and early warning systems;
- Women have access to, and can shape, locally appropriate mechanisms, assets, services, and products that build resilience (e.g., self-help groups, psychosocial services, social protection services, and financial products);
- Partnerships established between WRD and new/existing livelihood and resilience programmes; and partnerships brokered between women’s organisations/agencies with livelihood and business actors and experts.
- The expected end-of-programme outcomes are:
- Prevention, preparedness and recovery systems, plans and tools are gender-responsive through women’s leadership in DRR, women’s enhanced influence in DRR decision-making, enhanced gender capacity of DRR and climate resilience stakeholders, increased access to knowledge, guidance, and expertise on gender-responsive disaster resilience, and strategic partnerships and networks for women’s agency and leadership in DRR; and
- Women and girls are prepared to withstand natural hazards, climate change and COVID-19, recover from disasters and increase their resilience to future risks, through gender-responsive early warning systems, gender targeted and mainstreamed services for women’s resilience, women’s informal and formal climate and disaster resilient businesses, women’s increased access to climate and disaster resilient livelihoods and strategic partnerships for resilient livelihoods.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required
- Civil societies organisations that have in depth understanding of the social and cultural dynamics and notably women’s organisations, faith-based organisations, and organisations representing women with disabilities. In addition, organisations that are working to ensure early warnings, preparedness, and recovery that are gender responsive.
- This WRD partnerships support strengthening of the WRD principles of localisation and ownership. The WRD programme will identify key champions and organisations that have existing relationships with communities that will be sustained beyond the life of the programme to support sustainability and continuation of the work.
- Other competencies, which, while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Building the enabling environment, including women’s leadership for gender responsive and inclusive DRR decision-making and action.
- Supporting knowledge consolidation and sharing.
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