Deadline: 19-Jan-22
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to build peace through international cooperation in Education, the Sciences and Culture. UNESCO’s programmes contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Agenda 2030 adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015. This Call for Partnership (CFP) relates to the UNESCO’s project titled “Support to national capacity building to realize girls’ right to education in Gilgit Baltistan” which is being implemented in two districts of GB.
The partner will be responsible to enrol 1300 out-of-school girls’ in the project schools in 110 project schools in District Bahawalpur in Punjab; to enrol 1300 out of school girls’ in in 118 project schools in District Muzaffargarh in Punjab.
Objectives and Expected Outputs/ Deliverables
The objective of the partnership is to work with IPs to support the programme interventions in Astore and Ghanche districts of Gilgit Baltistan. The selected partner(s) will work with 93 governments girls’ primary schools in 12 marginalized UCs of both districts to enrol 1000 Out-ofSchool Children and to ensure 80% retention or above of the previously enrolled children in the target schools. Depending upon local presence, IPs can work in one or both the target districts of Gilgit Baltistan for commencement of activities. List of the project schools will be shared with the selected organization(s).
Funding Information
- District Astore: PKR 29 million
- District Ghanche: PKR 32 million
Final Beneficiaries
Eligible proposals will be those focused on primary in-school and out-of-school children, particularly girls, of grades 1-5 in the two target districts with 0.2 million population as beneficiaries.
Eligibility Criteria
An IP is an entity with a not-for-profit status to which UNESCO has entrusted partially or fully the implementation of programmes or projects specific in a signed document, along with the assumption of full responsibility and accountability for the effective use of resources and the delivery of outputs as set forth in such a document. Main features of an Implementation Partner’s Agreement
- The partner brings added value including monetary or in-kind contribution to the project/ activity
- The partner shares in the risks and rewards of the project/ activity implementation and is responsible and accountable for delivering expected results
- The partner is involved at each step of the process, from detailed work plan elaboration to project/activity evaluation.
- The partnership will include aspects beyond the delivery of a service to include capacitybuilding elements with respect to the partner and/or beneficiary
For more information, visit https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/161139