Deadline: 25-May-22
UN Women is inviting potential Responsible Parties for the implementation of (Provision of Alternative Economic Livelihood for Female Traditional Practitioners).
The intervention on empowering female traditional practitioners with alternative livelihood support takes into consideration previous lessons learned from the Phase 1 Spotlight Programme that community engagement and sensitization are key to ensuring the full participation of female traditional practitioners in addressing social behavioral change in their communities and improving the lives of young women and girls and their community. It is also important to compliment community engagement and sensitization with economic opportunities.
Access to alternative economic activities for female traditional practitioners is an affirmative action for economic empowerment. Through this, female traditional practitioners have a second chance to become economically empowered. The programme seeks to prioritize the vital role of the traditional practitioners, including traditional and religious leaders, community members and the vulnerable and marginalized groups in ensuring that their communities are free of all forms of VAWG and that everyone respect each other no matter their sex or gender.
Details
Under the leadership of the Deputy Country Representative overall guidance of the Program Manager for the Women Economic Empowerment Pillar (WEE) and direct supervision of the Program Analyst, the Responsible Party will provide the below services/results:
- In close consultation with key stakeholders such as National Council of Chiefs & Elders of Liberia (NACCEL), the Ministry of Gender, Children & Social Protection (MGCSP) and the Ministry of Internal
- Affairs (MIA), provide capacity building for innovative actions for 800 traditional practitioners (500 from 6 non-spotlight counties1 and 300 traditional practitioners from 5 Spotlight Counties
- Provide capacity building in Climate-Smart Agriculture and VSLA trainings for the targeted female traditional Practitioners.
- Access to finance through small grants including establishment of revolving funds mechanisms.
- 32 Village Savings and Loan Associations established for the target female traditional practitioners’ access to sustainable finance including for the provision of small grants to beneficiaries.
- Support the development of the Simple Rites of Passage document that will facilitate the alternative rites of passage program for initiation of girls into womanhood without the FGM component.
Duration
This initiative shall commence from July 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. Selected partner will provide a schedule of service and required to complete required services/results within agreed timeframe.
Competencies
- Reputation of Organization and Staff:
- Documented successful track record (for newly formed organizations, the personnel to be assigned to the UN Women project should be gender balanced and have a proven track record of 5 years in the subject field including on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls).
- A proven commitment to results (able to provide records of successful projects).
- Proven credibility and experience in the country or region in terms of working towards gender equality, women’s rights, and women’s economic empowerment.
- General Organizational Capability:
- Strength in working with CSOs networks and coalitions and conducting successful and standard trainings on designing, implementation, and monitoring of programs on EVAW and Women and Girls SRHRs including Women’s Economic Empowerment.
- Record and evidence on skills in advocacy and lobbying for change in laws and policies that affect women and girls;
- Record and evidence of organizational culture of accountability, such as a written code of conduct, measures on anti-corruption and sexual harassment policy.
- A track record of delivering quality and timely project results.
- Organizational expertise in the area of specified programme:
- Evidence that the organization can conduct quality trainings, mentoring/handholding and other needed support to the clients of the project or previous experience and expertise of successfully managing projects of same nature.
- Accountability and Financial Control:
- A functioning internal control framework and process to deliver quality and timely project results.
- Grassroots presence/Outreach:
- Evidence of the organization having grassroots presence and or affiliation with other similar strong qualified organizations in the country.
- CSOs that partner with local Community Based Organisation, especially those of marginalised groups or groups facing multiple forms of violence will be of an added value to the applicant
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Innovation with traditional practitioners on good cultural practices.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=91170