Deadline: 30-Sep-22
UN Women is seeking a registered non-government organization (or joint application from several organizations) to support UN Women, as part of its collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, in the roll-out of the “Connect with respect” curriculum and complementary parenting sessions, as part of a whole-school approach to eliminate violence against women and children, in three municipalities in Timor-Leste.
The organization (s) will provide targeted and specific technical support and capacity development to select schools (15 schools in 3 municipalities). UN Women will support the MoEYS to provide capacity development on the CWR approach to teachers, school staff, parents, including in parent-teacher associations and student councils. This will support the implementation of the CWR toolkit, including in an adapted version for remote roll-out with consideration of the COVID-19 context and facilitate exchange and learning across key education stakeholders, including teachers, parents, students, school directors and community leaders. The project will also build evidence about the effectiveness of school-based prevention programmes and exchange good practices on preventing and addressing VAWG.
Aims
To address the global challenges of Violence against women and girls (VAWG), the European Union (EU) and the United Nations have partnered on a new multi-year programme, the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative. The Spotlight Initiative aims to support transformative change on the ground to end violence against women and girls. The overall vision of the Spotlight Initiative in Timor-Leste is that women and girls enjoy their right to a life free of violence, within an inclusive and gender equitable Timor-Leste. The programme is aligned to the Timor-Leste “National Action Plan on Gender-based violence (2017-2021) and National SDG Roadmap, particularly on SDGs 5 and 16. It will contribute to the National Strategic Development Plan and reinforce Timor-Leste’s Development Plan and reinforce Timor-Leste’s implementation of commitments under the Beijing Platform for Action, the Concluding Observations of the CEDAW Committee, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, among other international obligations.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be USD 100,000.00.
Target Audience
- School Principals.
- Teachers responsible for Student Councils.
- Teachers responsible for materials relevant to CWR (for example Educaçăo Civica no Sidadania).
- Parents of pre-secondary students enrolled in CWR.
- Parent Teachers Association.
- Representatives of the National Institute for Training Teachers and Educational Professionals (INFODEPE).
Eligibility Criteria
UN Women is soliciting proposals from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Women’s organizations or entities are highly encouraged to apply.
- Governance and management structures:
- Officially registered in Timor-Leste (in a consortium or joint proposal one organization must have this status).
- Has a Board of Directors/ managing committee or an appropriate governance structure which are politically impartial, and review key decisions affecting strategy, partnerships, programmes, finance, and procurement.
- Key decisions are subject to review by a committee of the Board.
- Has no conflict of interest between staff in the organization and UN Women.
- Has an anti-fraud and corruption policy and consistently implements the policy.
- Has in place policies and procedures regarding data privacy and data protection.
- Has gender considerations reflected by proportion of women in management and Board of Directors.
- Has the capacity to follow the UN Protocol on Allegations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, including reporting requirements to UN Women.
- Technical/functional competencies required:
- Organizational experience and credibility on programming for ending violence against women and girls, gender, and development.
- A proven commitment to delivery of results in a professional manner (able to provide records of successful projects).
- Familiar with Connect with Respect Program and Gender-Positive Parenting Curriculum.
- Relevant experience in partnerships with UN Women, other UN agencies, government of Timor-Leste, or other development actors.
- Has internal programmatic, administrative, and financial processes in place to ensure delivery of quality, cost-effective and timely programme results.
- Has adequate numbers of professional staff with adequate qualifications and experience on EVAWG.
- Previous experience with UN Women, other UN agencies or significant non-government donors.
- The Specific services required from a registered non-government organization (or joint application from several organizations) are listed below:
- Mentoring of teachers and school authorities on whole-school approaches (Connect with Respect/CWR program.
- Strengthening the CWR reference group coordination and its efforts for the institutionalization of CWR by Ministry of Education in the national school curriculum.
- Rolling out Connect with Respect to students at 15 Spotlight Initiative target schools.
- Establishing the male youth EVAW champion in 15 target schools.
- Building a gender friendly school environment in 15 targeted schools.
- Ensuring that trainers/teachers have materials needed for implementation of activities (Connect with Respect/CWR) to students who enrolled in CWR.
- Ensuring that monitoring and evaluation processes are completed and reported to UN Women and impact assessments of CWR program to students and teachers are documented.
- Conducting refresher training, particularly on monitoring and evaluation, data collection, data analysis and reporting, and CWR program to the Ministry of Education, CWR Reference Group, and INFORDEPE. The focus of this training will be agreed with UN Women.
- Assessing the change of parents of students who have participated the parenting sessions (parents of student from 15 schools).
- Conducting refresher training, particularly gender-responsive positive parenting sessions to parents of students.
- Conducting meeting sessions with parents to improve and create healthy and respectful relationship between members of family at home.
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