Deadline: 21-Apr-22
UN Women has announced a call for proposals to increase Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and citizens (women) capacity and participation in the national budget process to ensure resources are allocated and expanded for gender equality and women economic empowerment.
Principles
The selected IP/RP is required to consider the following programme principles when developing their proposals and implementation plan:
- Prioritization: The Partner will prioritize respect, safety, and confidentiality for all affected and survivors.
- Do no harm: All activities are carefully designed and will be implemented to pose no threat to women and their children, including but not limited to survivors.
- Clients’ right for choice is at the center of all interventions: The partner will follow a non-prescriptive approach in all programme interventions and will respect women’s choices and decisions, providing as much information to them as possible to better inform their decisions and request consent for actions taken on their behalf. improving coordination: The partner aims to facilitate coordination with similar initiatives of other budget transparency and accountability programmes, agencies, and institutions into an effective action. The selected IP/RP will assume a coordinating function and act as a source of knowledge for other organizations.
- Building partnerships: The partner will try to not duplicate existing projects, but will partner with the private sector, other donor-funded initiatives and government projeds, and the burgeoning financial sector, wherever possible.
- Simple design: The partner will set up minimal structures or networks in a few suitable locations during the project.
- Sharing best practices: The partner will leverage opportunities for identifying and disseminating emerging successful prevention, response and economic empowerment models for women and girls in Liberia.
- Draw from and contribute to the evidence: The partner will deliver new evidence on the risk factors for Violence Against Women, Sexual and Reproductive, Health and HIV/AIDS, Gender Responsive Budgeting and integrate stronger evaluation and monitoring practices to ensure evaluability.
- Integration: Working with a wide range of stakeholders’ the partner will aim to improve linkages between existing prevention and response structures.
Activity Target Group
The selected IP/RP will work with the following target groups:
- CSOs including women’s rights and other marginalized group institutions that are interested and committed to dedicate time for gender-responsive budget reporting in pilot ministries;
- Research and academic institutions;
- Parliamentary Committees on gender, budget, education, agriculture and health;
- Legislative Budget Office (LBO); and
- Women Legislative Caucus
Duration
11 Months beginning from April 01,2022-December 30,2022
Project Location: Monrovia
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 have a proven track record of 5 years in the subject field);
- A proven commitment to results (able to provide records of successful projects);
- Proven credibility in the country or region or in the original country of location, especially credibility in terms of working towards gender responsive planning and budgeting, gender equality, women’s rights and economic empowerment.
- General Organizational Capability:
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- Strength of project management on conducting successful and standard trainings to advocate for Gender Responsive Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring to address VAWG, SGBV/HP and promote Women and Girls’ SRHR;
- Track record in advocating for gender equality and strategy to address VAWG, SGBV/HP and promote Women and Girls’ SRHR
- Track record of working in transparency and accountability;
- 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 on GRB and, 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.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=89431