Deadline: 29-Sep-21
The UN Women is seeking proposals from women-led NGOs, women’s coalitions and NGOs with strong track record in advancing Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and young women specifically at community and grassroot level.
NGOs will have proven capacity to develop and implement innovative interventions with the strategic objective of transforming the environment that reinforces unequal power relations in the household, community, and in the civil society domain (amongst CSOs, women groups and coalitions) that contributes to poor accountability to gender equality and human rights of women in economical, social, legal and political domains.
The Call for Proposals encourages innovative initiatives aimed strategically at achieving transformational change in environment that reinforces poor accountability to gender equality, women’s empowerment, and human rights of women strengthening women’s movement as a key strategy.
Such initiatives should consider state-society relations, strengthening women movement specifically targeting the most excluded women at community level as well as root causes of inequalities between men and women in their different inter sectionalities as structural barriers that hinders accountability to GEEW.
The Call for Proposals encourages NGOs that have proven capacity to develop and implement a program to gender equality, women’s empowerment, and human rights of women including at community level.
The submitted projects should contribute to National priorities as well as Sudan’s International and Regional obligations in the human rights and gender equality domains.
Components
- The Program envisages any of the two key components to be implemented by either a single organization or jointly in partnership with other NGO/CSO in which case they will have to show proof of the partnership at the time of submitting the proposal. The implementation period and budget are for a period from October to 15th December 2021 and interested CSOs/NGOs are expected to submit technical and budget proposals covering this period.
- With the outcome of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (GEEW) commitments in political, economic, legal and social domains implemented with more involvement of women movement and CSOs working on gender equality advocates influencing the processes. Each proposal should consider one or two of the following components:
- Component 1: Strengthening the women movement by supporting their organization, structuring across 3 states of Kordofan, Khartoum, the 5 Darfur states and the 3 Eastern states to draw their strategic way forward, common agenda and program of action.
- Component 2: Policy dialogue in the Khartoum, Eastern region and Darfur Region aimed at understanding addresses the constraints patriarchy causes to promoting women’s rights in the legal, political, economic, and social domains and adopting plans to address it.
- The budget range for this proposal should be (15,000 USD – 30,000 USD).
- A term of 3 months starting date being September 2021 and completion of services/results by end of November 2021 and narrative and financial report to be submitted not later than 20th December 2021.
Geographic Area
- Khartoum State, 5 states of Darfur, 3 states of the East and 3 states of Kordofan. Across the target regions projects are also considered
Competencies
- UN-Women is soliciting proposals from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).Women’s organizations or entities are highly encouraged to apply.
- Through this Call for Proposals, UN Women seeks proposals from women-led NGOs, women’s coalitions and NGOs with strong track record in advancing Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and young women specifically at community and grassroot level. NGOs will have proven capacity to develop and implement innovative interventions with the strategic objective of transforming the environment that reinforces unequal power relations in the household, community, and in the civil society domain (amongst CSOs, women groups and coalitions) that contributes to poor accountability to gender equality and human rights of women in economical, social, legal and political domains.
- All applicants will have to demonstrate absorptive capacity and a financial management record commensurate with the grant request amount.
- Technical/functional competencies required;
- Extensive experience in working on women’s rights issues, in economic, political, social or legal domains;
- Experience in developing and implementing advocacy, capacity building and strategies on strengthening women’s movement;
- Track record of working with and organizing women who are most excluded from development and political process at community level;
- Experience and track records on applying Results Based Management and its application to key processes (e.g. planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation);
- Experience in working in the targeted selected states;
- Relevant experience in partnership with UN Women or other UN Agencies, government, CSOs Networks and other development actors;
- Have presence (an office with staff capacity) in the target state-locality in the selected region/state. Alternatively, applicants should demonstrate that they have existing partnerships or will establish partnerships, such as with Key Women’s rights Organizations (CBOs/CSOs/NGOs) based in the target districts. In such cases, applicants will indicate potential partnerships and will subsequently need to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding as part of this engagement.
- Technical/functional competencies required;
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2021/09/call-for-proposal-strengthening-the-gender-architecture-in-sudan