Deadline: 10-Mar-23
UN Women seeks to partner relevant women rights organisation /consortium also having expertise in the agriculture sector (including legal rights of women) to:
- Strengthen the leadership and participation (and, in so doing, voice and agency) of rural women farmers in family and community level decision-making and financial institutions, banking institutions and other referral mechanisms.
- Enable family members including men and boys and local faith and political leaders to work together to improve relationships and decision making to bring transformative change in the lives of rural women.
- Provide support to three tiers of governments on gender responsive policies and planning in the agriculture sector
Scope of Assignment
Under the overall supervision of UN Women, the selected agency will be responsible for the preparation of the implementation of the following activities:
- Outcome 2: Rural women’s income, decent work and economic autonomy are increased to secure their livelihoods and build resilience
- Output 2.2: Rural women have increased access to decent work, including off-farm work and social protection.
- Output 2.3: Rural women have increased access to gender-responsive financial and business development services, ICTs and other products and services.
- Outcome 3: Rural women’s voices and agency are increased for full and equal participation and leadership in their households, communities, organizations and governance systems
- Output 3.1: Rural women have increased skills and capacity to participate in local governance and decision-making structures.
- Output 3.2: Organizational capacities and social capital strengthened to form, participate in and sustain gender-responsive producer organizations, cooperatives and unions, savings groups and self-help groups.
- Outcome 4: Gender-responsive legal frameworks, policies and institutions are strengthened to create an enabling environment for rural women to secure their livelihoods, rights and resilience
- Output 4.1: The capacities of policymakers and other relevant stakeholders to design, implement and track gender-responsive policies, strategies, legal frameworks and budgets are enhanced.
- Output 4.2: Capacity of rural women and their organizations increased to engage in and influence relevant policy forums at national, regional and global levels.
- Output 4.3: Rural women’s economic empowerment strengthened through regional and global policy dialogues and processes.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be NPR 110,000,000.00- NPR 120,000,000.00
Target Group/Constituency
- Under the JP RWEE Phase II, the direct beneficiaries of the programme are 5,500 rural women farmers and 500 men. Indirect beneficiaries are 25,800 household members and 200 elected leaders including government officials.
- This initiative will target at least 2,000 rural women farmers and 500 men in Siraha and Saptari districts. These rural women farmers should be members of rural women farmers groups formed under the JP RWEE, Phase II. These 500 men should be the family members of rural women farmers.
- The selected agency will adopt cascading approach where the learning from 2,000 rural women farmers can be transferred to other 3,000 rural women farmers. Similarly, from 500 men to 2,000 men members (indirect participants) of rural women farmers.
Geographic Location
This initiative will be implemented in three LGUs in Siraha and two in Saptari district. In Siraha district, Sakhuwanankarkatti Rural Municipality, Laxmipur Rural Municipality and one more municipality (to be identified by the JP RWEE team) in the north part of Siraha will be covered. In Saptarai, Tilathi Koiladi Rural Municipality and Chinnamasta Rural Municipality will be covered.
Eligibility Criteria
- Proven technical competencies in application of human rights-based and feminist approaches; social inclusion and intersectionality approch to advance gender equality and for ensuring their voices and needs as rightsholders, particularly with rural women farmers.
- Eight years of demonstrable organizational experience in forming and supporting networks of excluded Groups including rural women farmers.
- Sound knowledge and technical expertise on GESI issues in the agriculture sector.
- Seven years of demonstrable experience in implementing programmes on gender equality and women’s empowerment, and in formulating result-oriented programme, monitoring programme based on indicators and quality reporting.
- Proven organizational experience in building strategic partnerships, connections and networks with relevant partners, including government agencies, community based organizations, CSOs at the provincial local level.
- Five years of working experience with rural women farmers in Madhesh Province.
- Eight years of working experience with the Government of Nepal (federal) including GESI responsive policies in the agriculture sector.
- Five years of working experience with provincial and local governments.
- Demonstrable commitment to working with women, girls, other genders that are economically, socially, culturally, or otherwise excluded, excluded and/or marginalized.
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