Deadline: 1-Jun-21
The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) India Country Office (ICO) are inviting non-governmental organisations to submit proposals for a grant towards Young Feminist Leadership Building as part of Generation Equality Forum (GEF).
This 10-months grant will strengthen feminist leadership and movement building, with a focus on youth, particularly for public and policy advocacy at the grassroots to global policy making.
The grant will support women and young changemakers to bring a robust feminist perspective to development practice.
The twin objective is to build capacities of young women to play leadership roles, and for youth to lead differently, with feminist values and ideology, and to advance the agenda of feminist social transformation.
To strengthen feminist leadership and movement building, with a focus youth, particularly for public and policy advocacy at the grassroots to global policymaking fora, UN Women is seeking the services of a feminist leadership organization/ network to serve as a Technical Resource Agency/ies to support women and young changemakers to bring a robust feminist perspective to development practice.
It is hoped that the learning and strategies that emerge from this collaboration will have significant implications for sustained feminist action in global and local agenda setting and policy making processes; to further the principles of leaving no one behind and promote human rights for all.
- Develop a comprehensive feminist leadership manual and toolkit on a policy-advocacy, with a focus on select areas of work
- Develop individual and institutional capacities on feminist leadership principles for 30-35 youth leaders
- Build reflections on critical gender-based barriers and bottlenecks at the local level, as an input to capacity building initiatives, in line with the SDG principle of Leave No One Behind (LNOB).
- Train a cadre of 10-young feminist facilitators as a resource-pool for feminist leadership interventions in their communities, organisations and networks.
- Provide technical and accompaniment support to select women’s organisations and networks (minimum 2) to develop and roll out feminist leadership interventions at the local level, in line with the SDG principle of LNOB and particular focus on young agents of change.
Scope of Work
- To strengthen feminist leadership and movement building, with a focus youth, particularly for public and policy advocacy at the grassroots to global policy making fora, UN Women is seeking the services of a feminist leadership organization/ network to serve as a Technical Resource Agency/ies to support women and young change makers to bring a robust feminist perspective to development practice.
- It is hoped that the learning and strategies that emerge from this collaboration will have significant implications for sustained feminist action in global and local agenda setting and policy making processes; to further the principles of leaving no one behind and promote human rights for all.
- Develop a comprehensive feminist leadership manual and toolkit on a policy-advocacy, with a focus on select areas of work.
- Develop individual and institutional capacities on feminist leadership principles.
- Build a body of knowledge on critical gender-based barriers and bottlenecks at the local level, as an input to capacity building initiatives, in line with the SDG principle of Leave no one behind.
- Train a cadre of young feminist facilitators as a resource-pool for feminist leadership interventions in their communities, organisations and networks.
- Provide technical and accompaniment support to select women’s organisations and networks to develop and roll out feminist leadership interventions at the local level, in line with the SDG principle of LNOB and particular focus on young agents of change.
Competencies
The applying organisations that will be receiving funds, must have the following functional/technical competencies:
- Substantive knowledge and demonstrated understanding of how to implement programming on young women’s leadership, capacity building, political participation and mentorship.
- Experience of implementing programmes on gender equality with a focus on promoting women’s leadership and political participation through offering trainings focused on feminist principles and transformational leadership. The applicants should have a track record proving leadership training to women and should have worked within the region.
- Existing staff with technical expertise on gender equality issues, specifically on women’s human rights, women’s political participation and leadership.
- Have a primary focus on advancing women’s equality and human rights, with these goals clearly reflected in its organisational mandate and programmatic interventions.; must be committed to feminist principles and rightsbased approaches
- Also add on existing engagement/ access to women and youth focused organisations, networks and groups.
The NGO/LEAD organisation should:
- Be duly registered or has the legal basis/mandate as an organization.
- Have an established organisational culture of accountability and commitment to delivery of results.
- Internal programmatic, administrative and financial capacity for budgets of more than $50,000 annually supported with a track record of quality and timely project results.
- Have a permanent office within India and been in operation for at least 5 years.
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