Deadline: 31-May-21
UN Women MCO- Caribbean is announcing Call for Proposals for Implementing Partners (For Civil Society Organizations – CSOs) to provide Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Counseling, Soft Skills Counseling, logistical support for workshops, and the development of a tool on addressing EVAW using social protection in St. Lucia.
UN Women, as one of the participating UN organisations (PUNOs) “Enhancing Resilience and Acceleration of the SDGs in the Eastern Caribbean: Universal adaptive social protection modeled at the community, national and sub-national levels” and has signed a joint programme document with the partners. As stated in the Programme Document, UN Women is responsible for the following within the Joint Programme:
- Addressing the structural inequalities that exist, and which undermine resilience to economic and climatic shocks from a gender perspective; as well as the relationships between gender, unpaid care work and resilience to climate-related and economic shocks.
- Deploying its global technical expertise on gender-responsive budgeting to assess fiscal space for physical and service delivery infrastructure for the reduction of unpaid care work in St. Lucia.
- Piloting approaches for optimizing social protection service delivery to connect the most vulnerable families with high care burdens – the majority of which are headed by women – to services and support to reduce unpaid care work.
Aims
The Joint Programme aims to achieve the following results:
- Strengthen institutional capacity for an integrated service delivery through the development of evidence based, gender responsive social and disaster risk management policy and legislation.
- Expand the knowledge base on unpaid care work in St. Lucia through the conduct of an assessment of budgets/fiscal space to increase targeted spending on physical and service delivery infrastructure for the reduction of unpaid care work.
- Strengthen service delivery capacity through the implementation of a pilot programme that will link a cohort of single women-headed households with children (beneficiaries of St. Lucia’s Public Assistance Programme (PAP)) to Housing, Day Care, Health Care including family planning, School Feeding Programme and Transportation social transfers.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be USD $10,000 – $15,000.
Services
The services required are as followed:
- A minimum of 6 group counselling sessions or 3 2-day sessions with trained and certified professionals with experience working with survivors of intimate partner violence. Participation in these sessions must be completely voluntary. Given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and physical distancing protocols that might exist, the NGO should demonstrate the capacity to deliver these sessions online.
- A minimum of 10 individual 1-hour counselling sessions with a certified professional with experience working with survivors of intimate partner violence. Participation in these sessions must be completely voluntary.
- A minimum of 6 Life Skills Sessions. These should include
- financial management;
- women and their labour rights;
- Food and nutrition support including backyard gardening as a strategy to enhance health and fight hunger and poverty;
- sexual and reproductive health (including family planning) and rights;
- entrepreneurship;
- Disaster Preparedness and Response. Given the varied nature of the topics to be covered, the CSO should demonstrate capacity to collaborate with various government departments such as Ministry of Agriculture, Public Health Bureau, Department of Labour, Ministry of Commerce, National Emergency Management Organisation and NGOs to deliver these sessions.
- COVID-19: The abovementioned sessions must be delivered in compliance with existing COVID-19 protocols and directives of the Government of St. Lucia. The proposal should include measures to be taken to comply with these directives.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required;
- A minimum of 5 years directly delivering services to survivors of gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence.
- Staff or long-term consultants/contractors that are professionally certified psychotherapists, or counsellors or social workers with direct experience of no less than 5 years directly delivering support to survivors of gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence.
- Proven capacity to collaborate with government and other CSOs and NGOs.
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Experience working with women beneficiaries of public assistance/social assistance.
- Experience working with populations with low literacy.
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