UNDP-UN Women Grant Opportunity for Women subject to Violence among Minority Women in BiH

Deadline: 22-Apr-21

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Women is seeking applications for its 2021 Pilot at least one initiative to offer economic reintegration opportunities for women subject to violence among minority women.

The UN Women Country Office in Bill is seeking to engage a CSO or a group of CSOs working on ending VAWG, gender-based discrimination and women’s rights, and/or organizations working on women’s rights issues and economic empowerment of women that will contribute to achieving the following result: Better access to and improved service provision for women from minority and disadvantaged groups.

It is expected that the responsible party will, inter alia, focus on the following areas of work:

Design an economic empowerment model for survivors of domestic violence, based on existing community resources and tackling the problems/barriers identified above in collaboration with a local and/or entity institution in charge of labor and employment;
Implement an economic empowerment program including at least 10 women survivors of domestic violence and other forms of violence against women, including those belonging to marginalized groups;
Build partnerships with private and/or public sector actors to contribute to the sustainability of the economic empowerment model;
Implement a raising-awareness campaign for victims of violence on existing state-supported economic empowerment programs, in collaboration with local/entity institution in charge of employment and employment programs;
Identify and address barriers in the multi-sectoral coordination when it comes to economic empowerment of survivors of domestic violence (inter-agency information exchange, collaboration, provision of information to survivors, referral pathways etc.);
Document and evaluate the impact of the economic empowerment model, user satisfaction, changes in the multi-sectoral coordination, sustainability and propose recommendations for replication.

Funding Information

The budget range for this proposal should be up to BAM 160,000.
The projecy is to last up to 18 months, tentatively from July 2021 – December 2022.

Competencies

Technical/functional competencies required:
- This Call for Proposal is open to registered CSOs working in Bill. Applications are encouraged particularly from women’s and human rights organizations which demonstrate:
  - Experience in direct assistance to survivors of domestic violence, provision of specialist support services and protection for survivors
  - Experience in implementing economic empowerment programs for survivors of domestic violence and gender-based violence
  - Effective collaboration with and/or participation in multi-sectoral teams/coordination bodies for combating domestic violence
  - Evidence-based programming, building on lessons learned and recommended practices, to ensure optimal results and use of resources;
  - Human rights-based and gender-responsive approaches that place first priority on promoting, protecting and fulfilling the human rights of women and girls as well as strengthening institutional capacities at local levels to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women;
  - Focus on disadvantaged groups, including those living in poverty or otherwise especially excluded, and ensuring responsiveness to diversity;
  - Communication and visibility in line with the program communication strategy, which will be defined at the stage of project proposal finalization. Once the communication strategy/plan is approved by the EU Delegation to BiH and UN Women, major steps of this plan are to be coordinated with the EU Delegation to Bill and UN Women to ensure greater impact.
Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Demonstrated cooperation and experience in engaging with the private sector for socially responsible causes
- Transformation of inequitable gender norms and power disparties between women and men, and empowerment of women and girls to thrive as equals