Deadline: 4-Mar-22
UN Women is inviting proposals for Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund to enhance local women CSOs’ institutional capacities in the Philippines”.
The project seeks an implementing partner with a strong background in capacity development of women CSOs working on peace, rights, and humanitarian actions. Capacity support includes institutional development, project development, financial management, and delivering peace and humanitarian interventions.
The overall goal of the WPHF’s theory of change is to contribute to peaceful and gender equal societies. Achievement of this goal will require that women are empowered to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from conflict prevention, crisis response, peacebuilding, and recovery. Since its launch in 2016, WPHF has been supporting over 400 civil society organizations and is present in 25 countries or group of countries.
Purpose and Objectives
The overall purpose of this call is to identify and partner with a National, Regional or International Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), to support local women’s rights organizations working on women, peace, security, and humanitarian action (WPS-HA) in the registration process as legal entities in the Philippines, as well as other institutional strengthening activities such as resource mobilization and proposal writing to ensure continued sustainability of the organizations. Specifically, the objectives are to:
- Support non-registered women’s rights organizations in the preparation for and registration process as legal entities to continue their work in WPS-HA
- Provide technical training and support on proposal writing and resource mobilization strategies to local women’s rights organizations through both in-person workshops, meetings and virtual sessions.
- Provide technical training on financial management, strategic planning and development of anti-corruption plans and prevention of sexual harassment and abuse policies and mechanisms.
Funding Information
Grants/project proposals should not exceed $250,000 USD to deliver the aforementioned activities and support to local organizations until December 2022. This includes all costs related to travel and logistics, training initiatives and contribution to staff costs.
Duration of Partnership: The partnership will be for up to 9 months and ends in December 2022.
Location: Institutional support will be provided to grantees situated across the Philippines. It is expected that the N/R/INGO will provide to beneficiary CSOs remote support, and in-person support adhering to the existing COVID-19 restrictions.
Eligibility Criteria
- National, Regional and International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) who have experience working with local CSOs in the Philippines and who have a proven track record working on women’s rights, feminist and human rights based principles and demonstrated experience in institutional capacity building and knowledge on registration processes, are eligible to apply. CSO consortiums are also eligible.
- NGOs who submit applications to this Call for Proposals will undergo a technical review based on the answers in the Proposal Template. Applicants should be able to demonstrate the following:
- Demonstrated technical expertise on institutional strengthening of civil society organizations, particularly in registration processes, proposal writing, resource mobilization, financial management, strategic planning and development of anti-corruption plans and prevention of sexual harassment and abuse policies and mechanisms.
- Experience and track record of working on programming and issues related to women, peace and security, and humanitarian action.
- Reach and access to youth and local women’s rights organizations in the Philippines, including in remote areas and non-registered youth and local women’s rights organizations
- Experience in financial management and reporting
- Experience in participatory and inclusive approaches in monitoring and evaluation.
Ineligible
The following are NOT eligible to apply:
- Government agencies or institutions;
- UN agencies or UN Country Teams;
- Private individuals;
- Private sector entities.
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