Deadline: 9 August 2016
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) is seeking proposals from international organisations for a program entitled “Strengthening the Capacity of Women’s Organizations on Community Mobilization and Women’s Empowerment” that focuses on supporting the government and civil society in advancing gender equality and implementation of the national and international commitments.
The objective is to support the capacity building of the UN Women local partner Civil Society Organization and share the community mobilization experience of other one of the conflict‐affected countries of Eastern Europe.
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of:
- discrimination against women and girls;
- the empowerment of women;
- the achievement of equality between women and men as partners beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
Objectives
- To improve regional and local government capacity in gender‐sensitive recovery planning and service delivery;
- To enhance community security for women and men in conflict‐affected areas
- To enhance the capacity of gender equality advocates and women affected by conflict through community/social mobilization to demand accountability and transparency in local decision‐making processes.
Strategic Goals
- Women’s leadership and participation;
- Implementation of women,
- Peace and security agenda, including a humanitarian response
- Gender responsive governance.
Duties and Responsibilities
- The organization will help with adjusting the methodology of the community mobilization for empowerment, provide the series of in‐depth capacity building training of the national partner in Ukraine through country visits, field trainings and study tour in the countries of the region, which were affected by the conflict with the experience of community mobilization targeting women affected by the conflict in order to arrange the learning meetings with already existing community based women’s organization working with IDP and conflict‐affected groups.
- The task of the organization will be to facilitate the sharing and learning exchange experience of the Ukrainian organization that will apply the community mobilization for empowerment methodology throughout the implementation of UN Women and UNDP project.
- The organization will strengthen the skills and knowledge of UN Women national partner in community mobilization for empowerment work and share the best practices and lessons learned of the similar conflict‐affected country context.
- This capacity building training and study tour will prepare the national CSO in the community based methodology with women’s groups in order to deliver the tangible results and contribute to achieve the final objectives of the project.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit UN Women.