Deadline: 20-Apr-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Women is inviting applications for the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to increase the professional capacities and the number of professional staff engaged in legal aid service provision; engage law students to support lawyers in providing free legal aid (student’s law clinics) in collaboration with Law faculties and raise awareness of at least 50 lawyers and law students to work on cases of VAWG; and provide improved legal services to at least 200 women.
UN Women will support the selected CSO in establishing partnerships with law faculties to enable adequate buy-in and commitment to the process. Moreover, UN Women will support the CSO in preparing and submitting quarterly and final reports and will provide feedback to the CSO during and after each activity to ensure continuous improvement and meaningful impact.
With a view to achieving Providers of general and specialist support services for victims of all forms of violence have the capacity to implement the standards enshrined in CEDAW and the Istanbul Convention, it is expected that the responsible party will, inter alia:
- Conduct research/survey on the implementation of the Law on Free Legal Aid (in effect as of October 1, 2019) with regards to women victims of VAW and their access to free legal aid, and based on data available identify examples of good practice, key obstacles noted and provide recommendations for improving the implementation of the existing law and/or recommendations for amending it;
- Support the improvement of professional capacities/number of professional staff engaged in service provision of free legal aid to VAWG victims, through knowledge and skills building activities targeting at least 50 lawyers;
- Establish a web-based platform for legal counselling, support the engagement of lawyers and connect them with VAWG victims, making the platform also accessible to women with disabilities;
- Establish a mentoring programme for law students in cooperation with at least two Law faculties, engaging lawyers experienced in providing free legal aid to VAWG victims and raise awareness of at least 50 law students to work on cases of VAWG;
- Provide free legal aid to at least 200 women, including women from marginalized groups (women with disabilities, Roma women, rural women, etc.);
- Conduct information/awareness campaign on the provision of improved free legal aid and on the newly established web-based platform, ensuring that information on the services provided reaches women from marginalized groups (women with disabilities, Roma women, rural women, etc.)
Funding Information
- The budget for this proposal should be up to USD 85,000
- The project is expected to be carried out within the months of June 2021 and December 2022 (18 months).
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required:
- Proven experience in promoting and strengthening the general and specialist services for women in situation of violence;
- Proven experience in advocacy and capacity building engagement on the Istanbul Convention and CEDAW standards;
- Experience in directly providing services to women survivors of violence, particularly women victims of sexual violence;
- Focusing on the empowerment of women and using a gender specific approach is required.
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Being a source of information on EVAW in the Serbian context will be an asset;
- Experience in facilitating the exchange of ideas and dissemination of information on EVAW and women’s rights will be an asset.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=76584