Call for proposals-Strengthening CSOs and Women Movement

Submission deadline: 11 September 2021

Through this Call for Proposals, UN Women seeks proposals from women-led NGOs, women’s coalitions, and NGOs with strong track record in advancing Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and young women specifically at community and grassroot level. NGOs will have proven capacity to develop and implement innovative interventions with the strategic objective of transforming the environment that reinforces unequal power relations in the household, community, and in the civil society domain (amongst CSOs, women groups and coalitions) that contributes to poor accountability to gender equality and human rights of women in economic, social, legal, and political domains.

Contact information

  • Contact person name: Hanadi Abdelhalim
  • E-mail address: [ Click to reveal ]
  • Telephone (including country code): 00249966137289

Call for proposals: Supporting work on women’s political participation and women, peace and security in Lebanon

Submission deadline: 17 September 2021

UN Women Lebanon Office welcomes proposals for partnerships to achieve results under the following areas of work:

  • Women’s Political Participation – with a focus on monitoring and highlighting cases of Violence Against Women in Elections and Politics, in the period leading up to the 2022 parliamentary elections.
  • Women, Peace and Security – with a focus on women-led community dialogue and reconciliation.

Reference number: UNW-AS-LBN-CFP-2021-002


Contact information

Women’s Political Participation:

  • Contact person name: Jad Halabi
  • E-mail address: [ Click to reveal ]
  • Telephone (including country code): +96170351098

Women Peace and Security:

  • Contact person name: Jumanah Zabaneh
  • E-mail address: [ Click to reveal ]
  • Telephone (including country code): +9613498317

Documents

Call for proposals-Gender-responsive communication, community engagement and feedback mechanism (UNW-AP-NPL-CFP-2021-008)

Submission deadline: 15 September 2021

This initiative seeks to: enhance access to information related to COVID-19 and other disasters from gender and social inclusion lens for diverse women and excluded groups for effective preparedness, response and recovery; track, trace and address rumours in COVID-19 contet and provide correct information to women and excluded groups as an effective risk communication strategy; and enhance capacities of journalists to develop gender responsive media content in COVID-19 context.

Contact information

Contact person's name: Ashma Shrestha

Email address: ashma.shrestha (at)unwomen.org

Tel: +01 5523200

Call for Proposals to support the establishment of a regional grant-making entity and the capacity building of CSOs in Central Asia and Afghanistan

Submission deadline: 20 August 2021

Spotlight Initiative Regional Programme for Central Asia and Afghanistan will identify potential Responsible Parties that will 1) build capacity of the selected CSO on requirements for grant-making procedures, provide technical support to develop strategies for resource mobilization and use of alternative funding mechanisms; and 2) provide capacity building of other CSOs in the six countries to fully participate in the regional women’s movement building.

Contact information

  • Contact person’s name: Aitzhamal Mansurova
  • Email address: [ Click to reveal ]
  • Telephone (including country code): +77778140078

Call for Proposals to implement actions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine aimed at overcoming and addressing gender stereotypes and discriminatory social norms through behavioral change at the individual and community levels

Submission deadline: 08 September 2021

This is a second round of the Call for Proposals that address civil society organizations of six Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) promoting gender equality, women’s empowerment, prevention and combating gender-based violence. The proposals are expected to suggest continuation of the initiatives started during the first round of the Call for Proposals, announced in 2020, or to suggest new initiatives that will contribute to tackling and combating gender stereotypes and adverse social norms as the underlying causes of gender inequality and violence against women as its most pervasive form. The initiatives, supported through this Call for Proposals, will be complementary to the activities implemented by UN Women and UNFPA under the joint project “EU 4 Gender Equality: Together against gender stereotypes and gender-based violence" project, funded by the European Union” in six project countries.

Contact information

  • Contact person’s name: Olga Osaulenko
  • Email address: [ Click to reveal ]
  • Telephone (including country code): N/A

Call for proposals-Pathways from trauma to empowerment – fostering social norms change through storytelling and collective mobilization (UNW-AP-NPL-CFP-2021-007)

Submission deadline: 26 August 2021

This initiative seeks to: address women and excluded group's practical needs and gender-based vulnerabilities to enable them to meet their immediate socio-economic needs in the COVID-19 context; enhance their capacity, voice and agency to understand and internalize the issues of gender equality and social inclusion; strengthen their economic security, providing sustainable livelihood opportunities, and support collective mobilization for leadership, movement building and advocacy for social norm change.

Contact information

Contact person's name: Ashma Shrestha

Email address: ashma.shrestha (at)unwomen.org

Tel: +9779851109289

Call for proposals: Producing awareness raising products on GBV related services and supporting the Iraqi Government in the development of the communication strategy for the Iraqi National Action Plan (NAP)

Submission deadline: 26 August 2021

UN Women Iraq and Yemen Cluster Office welcomes proposals for partnerships to achieve results under the following outcome/output areas:

  1. Impact Area 4 / SP Outcome 5: Women and girls contribute and have greater influence in building sustainable peace and resilience and benefit equally from the prevention of natural disasters and conflicts and from humanitarian action.
  2. Outcome 4.2.1: A conducive environment is enabled, and national institutions supported, to ensure validation, endorsement and implementation of a National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325
  3. Output 4.1.3: Women and girls at risk and SGBV survivors have access to comprehensive redress, including justice, appropriate health and psychological support services

Reference number: CFP/IRQ/2021/4


Contact information

  • Contact person name:Teresa Salvadoretti
  • E-mail address: [ Click to reveal ]
  • Telephone (including country code): +9647502688359

Documents

Call for proposals: Producing a brief on Violence Against Women in politics in Local governance (VAWP) in Libya

Submission deadline: 01 September 2021

The CFP subject study will provide a more in-depth exploration of violence experienced by elected women municipal council members, as well as a contextual understanding of those experiences. In developing knowledge around VAWP in Libya, And creating a foundation of data and frameworks through which to contextualize and make sense of VAWP experienced by women municipal council members.

Reference number: CFP/LB/2021/1


Contact information

  • Contact person name: Inaam Elbasir
  • E-mail address: [ Click to reveal ]
  • Telephone (including country code): +218910530151

Documents

Call for proposals-Strengthening community safety nets and feminist movement building in the COVID-19 context (UNW-AP-NPL- CFP-2021-06)

Submission deadline: 13 August 2021

The proposed initiative is aimed at strengthening the resilience capacity of women and excluded groups, by mobilizing and organizing them through networks, and building their collective leadership capacity to address the myriad impacts of the pandemic. The intervention is focused on seven province in Nepal.

Contact information

Contact person's name: Rachana Bhattarai

Email address: rachana.bhattarai (at)unwomen.org

Tel: +977-015523200

Call for proposals-Implementing Partner for FLIGHT (UNW-CFP-IND30-2021-003)

Submission deadline: 16 August 2021

UN Women seeks the services of a civil society organization working with community-based organizations of women from the most marginalized communities scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, minorities, survivors of rape and violence, survivors of trafficking, disabled, women headed households to strengthen their opportunities for digital/professional/vocational skills and employment. The proponent organization is expected to submit a proposal to contribute to all the three outputs of the Project. The selected organization will be responsible for implementation of the FLIGHT Project outcomes and outputs.

Contact information

Contact person's name: Madhulika Madhulika

Email address: madhulika.singh (at)unwomen.org

Tel: +91 8800288522