Deadline: October 13th 2023 | South Sudan Community Support to Women & Girls Empowerment
To lead in delivering Component 1 of the South Sudan Women’s Social and Economic Empowerment Plan, UN Women South Sudan Office is pleased to issue a request for proposals to Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), which include National Non-Governmental Organisations and International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) with relevant experience, proven innovative, high impact, and fast track strategies.
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In order to support the provision of various services to women, men, boys, and adolescent girls at satellite Women Empowerment Centres (WECCs), UN Women seeks to competitively recruit NGO/INNGOs/CSO/partners in all project target locations under component 1 of the SSWSEEP project, which is titled “Community Empowerment Support to Women and Girls.”
The mission of the Ministry of Gender, Child, and Social Welfare (MGCSW), which is shared by UN Women, is to advance social justice and gender equality while defending the rights and welfare of women, children, people with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups.
Mission Activities
- Support for Social Services: Increasing Women and Girls’ Social Capital, Agency, and Voice through Networking and Organisational Capacity: The successful NGO/CSO/INGOs will put interventions into place that increase women’s organisational voices, social capital, and organisational capacities.
- The successful NGO/CSO/INGOs will train women and adolescent girls through their networks in a variety of interventions, including basic literacy and numeracy, peacebuilding, advocacy, and lobbying, as well as life skills like leadership, confidence building, conflict resolution, negotiation skills, and communication.
- Engaging men and boys: The effective NGO/CSO/INGOs will support the implementation of interventions centred on male engagement and must possess the necessary resources and expertise to train men and boys in the neighbourhood and inform them of the significance of greater female participation in community peacebuilding and income-generating activities.
- The candidate must also employ cutting-edge techniques to harness the damaging impacts of patriarchal society and gender standards without doing further harm. This component addresses the unfavourable social and patriarchal norms that prevent women from participating in and benefiting from economic operations and peacebuilding processes, and it targets a minimum of 12,000 men and boys across the 48 locations. Leaders in religion and culture could gain from this approach.
- Women who are married or cohabiting with their partners should be urged to invite their male partners to these trainings and discussions.
- GBV Referral: It will be required of the successful service provider to do a GBV referral evaluation in the regions where they are operating. In order to receive GBV cases or complaints and make the appropriate referrals to specialised services, whether social or livelihood-related, each current satellite WECC will be required to have a trained GBV focal person and/or counsellor. This referral service must be operational by the service provider.
- Assistance with Livelihoods
- Support for business training skills and value chain development: Service providers will be expected to provide services for market/business skills training carried out in accordance with the business needs of each community, with a focus on revenue-generating activities. Technical market skills trainings may cover topics such as credit management, money management, numeracy, vocational skills, good resource management practises, and their connections to livelihoods in the textile, tailoring, hairdressing, and climate smart agriculture industries, among others. The market/business skills training will be implemented in line with each community’s business requirements, with a focus on activities that generate income as a priority. To support the future implementation of livelihood subgrants funded by the project, business plans will be created. To add value through transformational processing and market linkages, specific value chains may be developed for (a) honey, (b) sesame, (c) chicken, (d) groundnuts, (e) maize, (f) sorghum, and (g) fruits and vegetables.
Financial Details
- Component Budget: UN Women will provide applicants who want to cover up to four States and one Administrative Area with a maximum of USD $4 million.
- Timeline: Beginning and ending dates for the completion of the necessary services or outcomes
- The project for the services included in Component 1 will last for two and a half years, from January 2024 to June 2026. By the end of December 2023, it is anticipated that a selected candidate would be hired.
Regional Coverage
- The project will be carried out across South Sudan’s ten states and two administrative regions:
- States: Lakes (Rumbek), Warrap (Kuajok), Western Bahr el Ghazal (Wau), Eastern Bahr el Ghazal (Aweil), Central Equatoria (Juba), Western Equatoria (Yambio), Eastern Equatoria (Torit), Jonglei (Bor), Unity (Bentiu), Upper Nile (Malakal), and Lakes (Rumbek).
- Ruweng and Pibor are the administrative regions.
eligibility
- Technical and functional requirements
- At least 7 years of experience assisting women and girls in vulnerable environments with community empowerment, GBV protection, and economic empowerment.
- Field experience in Africa, particularly South Sudan, for at least three years.
- Experience administering complex, multi-year programmes in Africa with an emphasis on community empowerment support for women and girls in vulnerable contexts for at least seven years.
- A track record of success using cutting-edge and experimental programmed techniques.
- Experience fostering institutional development and capacity building for grassroots organisations with a focus on community empowerment support for women and girls in unstable environments will be an added benefit.
- At least seven years of experience managing project grants, preferably for grants from several public donors, including project design, sub-grant management, budget management, and governance.
- A minimum of 7 years of expertise implementing initiatives for women’s economic empowerment, with a focus on value chains, business and financial management, and links to markets.
- It is necessary to have a strong capability for monitoring programme performance and the agility to quickly adjust to policy or programmatic necessities.
- Key personnel have at least five years of relevant expertise in empowering women economically and providing social and protection services to girls and women in unstable environments throughout Africa.
- It is desired to be able to locate WECCs-focused workers in South Sudan for extended periods of time, including in state and satellite locations to advance important workstreams.
- Have an office with employee capacity and a presence in South Sudan. Alternatively, applicants must show that they are forming new relationships with CSOs or NGOs in South Sudan or that they already have partnerships in place. In these situations, candidates will mention possible alliances and will subsequently be required to sign an MOU as a condition of this participation.
- To strengthen synergies and ensure that the localization processes are sustained, international NGOs interested in applying must explain how they will collaborate and/or engage with local NGOs on the project.
- Although not necessary, the following additional skills can be useful when providing services:
experience creating collaborations with national and state governments in unstable environments and monitoring, evaluating, and designing development programmes and projects.
prior experience working for international organisations, including UN Women.
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