Deadline: 15-Jan-22
The Yemen Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) team is inviting bids for projects enabling women’s meaningful political participation and inclusion.
Yemen Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) aims to directly support the meaningful inclusion of women in the political process at all levels; including increasing women’s representative participation in peace processes.
Objectives
In support of this, the CSSF is looking to fund a project to effectively influence formal and informal political structures in Yemen to help create an enabling environment for women’s meaningful political participation and inclusion. The project will mainly target a diverse range of partisan and non-partisan political actors (of all genders) across Yemen and in the diaspora to:
- address the knowledge gap on women’s meaningful participation and influence within Yemen’s political formal and informal structures, by carrying out contextualised and localised mapping and gender analysis of these structures. The project will seek to understand the experiences of women, including the barriers they face to political participation, and will look at the impact of women’s political participation and its linkages with peacebuilding and peace processes. This will also provide practical recommendations for female and male actors on how to advance women’s participation, not only quantitatively but also qualitatively, and influence within these structures. Analysis should include measures to promote women’s safety when participating in political or public life and, where possible, consider less-explored areas including the role of digital/social media and women’s political participation
- through consultations with a diverse pool of political actors and decision-makers (of all genders), partisan and non-partisan, identify and provide support in areas where support is needed, in order for women not only to be present but also to be active participants in political or public life. In addition, support women actors and civil society to develop key policy priorities, and advocate, with key political parties for their inclusion in any future national-level peace agreement
- better understand existing linkages, and support and build new linkages between female and male political actors and civil society organisations to lobby and advocate for women’s meaningful political participation at all levels of peace processes in Yemen
Bids for the project should address:
- how your organisation is well-equipped with the expertise and resources for this project
- your organisation’s proposed approach to delivering, measuring progress and monitoring the impact of each phase. Bids should include a particular focus on how they shall measure the value for money impact of their proposed approach. Strong proposals will be high-impact interventions, defined by clear evidence of the potential to deliver solutions that are sustainable and/or scalable
- how your organisation will identify and mitigate any risks, given the sensitivity of this piece of work and issues around women’s safety when participating in public life and the importance of generating the buy-in of all relevant political actors
- how your organisation will deliver its activities and outcomes under different COVID-19 scenarios, including full or partial lock-downs and restrictions on local/international travel
- how your organisation will reach out to women and men at a sub-national level across different parts of the country, as well as in the diaspora
Funding Information
- The project can range in value from £800,000 up to £1 million. Allocations will be approved on annual basis.
- The project will be implemented over two years from February 2022 to January 2024. It will take a phased approach, starting with research and analysis, which have to be completed by March 2022.
Competencies
The implementer will have:
- strong operational experience of working in Yemen or in similar highly conflicted environments in the MENA region
- strong working knowledge on the women peace and security agenda, specifically women’s meaningful participation in peace and decision-making processes
- strong gender and conflict analysis skills
- strong knowledge of Yemen’s informal and formal political structures and local and national-level conflict dynamics, and the ability to work closely with Yemeni counterparts in all regions of the country
- the ability to source appropriate expertise to support the mapping, capacity building and advocacy components, both in-country and if necessary, from outside
- experience and familiarity of gender programming
- project and budget management skills, experience, capabilities and capacity
- experience of MEL processes, including but not limited to outcome harvesting
- robust approaches to risk management, conflict sensitivity, disability inclusion, safeguarding
Eligibility Criteria
- The project will be managed under an Accountable Grant Agreement (or MoU for inter-governmental organisations only).
- Projects in this framework are not allowed to generate a profit for the delivery partner.
- Proposals from for-profit organisations can only be considered if an officially registered non-profit making arm or division of the for-profit organisation will deliver the project.
For more information, visit CSSF.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/news/yemen-call-for-project-bids-supporting-womens-participation-in-peacebuilding