Deadline: 26-Aug-21
UN Women has announced a call for proposals for Pathways from trauma to empowerment – fostering social norms change through storytelling and collective mobilization.
Objectives
The specific objectives are as follows:
- To address women’s practical needs and gender-based vulnerabilities through the provision of essential supplies and services to enable them to meet their immediate socio-economic needs in the COVID-19 context.
- To enhance women and excluded groups’ capacity, voice and agency to understand and internalize the issues of gender equality and social inclusion and to foster social norm change at community levels.
- To strengthen economic security of women and excluded groups, providing sustainable livelihood opportunities, with a focus on re-skilling and supporting women’s collectives.
- To support collective mobilization of women and excluded groups for leadership, movement building and advocacy for social norm change.
Strategic Approach
The proposed initiative will contribute to the UN Women’s Strategic Note 2018 – 2022 on “measuring social norms change through storytelling in Nepal and advancing the transformative shift towards gender equality.”
The initiative has three components namely:
- Storytelling research process – measuring, identifying and understanding social norms change;
- Pathways from trauma to empowerment – fostering social norms change through storytelling; and
- Collective mobilization – harnessing social norms change through creative forms of storytelling.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be NPR 100,000,000 – 110,000,000; NPR 15,000,000 for year 1 (2021-2022).
- The project will be implemented over five years from 2021 to 2025.
- The initial contract will cover the year 1 (2021-2022) only and the extension of agreement for remaining period will be subject to funding availability and satisfactory performance of the responsible party.
Project Location
- Province 2, 3 (Bagmati), 6 (Karnali) and 7 (Sudurpaschim) (Total 16 LGUs – 6 LGUs in Provinces 2 and 3; 10 LGUs in Provinces 6 and 7).
Eligibility Criteria
- Five to seven years of demonstrable organizational experience in working in humanitarian response, sustainable livelihoods and behavioural and social change.
- Sound knowledge and technical expertise on gender and intersectionality in humanitarian and development actions.
- 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 at the provincial local level.
- Demonstrable commitment to working with women, girls and gender nonconforming/ nonbinary that are economically, socially, culturally, or otherwise excluded/or marginalized
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