Promoting Recovery of Internally Displaced and Returnee Women & Girls mozambique

Deadline: October 31st 2023 | Promoting Recovery of Internally Displaced and Returnee Women & Girls Mozambique

Title:	Promoting Recovery of Internally Displaced and Returnee Women & Girls Mozambique
Organisation:	United Nations Women
Fund/Benefit:	2,704,000 MZN
Deadline:	October 31st 2023
Eligible countries;	All member countries of UN

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has financed a project titled “Promoting socioeconomic recovery and resilience of internally displaced and returnee women and girls in Northern Mozambique” and UN Women is happy to announce a request for proposals for it.

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Finding implementing Partners (Civil Society Organisations, especially women-led organisations) with a solid track record in implementing programmes focusing on promoting gender equality, women’s socioeconomic empowerment, and humanitarian action is the goal of the call for proposals.

Objectives and Goals

• Overall objective: Women in Cabo Delgado take the lead in humanitarian relief and recovery activities and gain from them.
• Empowering displaced women and girls to actively participate in the planning, design, construction, and upkeep of adequate, accessible, safe, and resilient resettlement housing in fragile and conflict-affected areas is one of the specific goals.
• Another is to make it easier for women and adolescent girls to access sustainable livelihoods and socioeconomic opportunities. A third goal is to increase the access of women and girls affected by conflict to effective services and protection mechanisms.

Components

• Component 1: Encouraging access to appropriate, accessible, safe, and resilient housing for women affected by violence and their technical building knowledge
• Geographical Focus: Districts of Palma and Mocimboa da Praia
• Expected Partners: ADIN, District and Provincial Governments, and UN Agencies
• Interventions’ Types
• Intervention 1 Teach returning citizens how to build appropriate, accessible, safe, and resilient housing, with a focus on women’s and girls’ participation (on-the-job training in building).
• Spending Capacity: 2,704,000 MZN
• Intervention 2 Distribute home kits (made up of traditional, mixed, and regional building supplies) to women and offer ongoing technical assistance in order to build sufficient, livable, secure, and resilient housing in the return areas.
• Budget at our disposal: 88,930,000 MZN
• There is a total of 91,634,000 MZN available for component 1.
• Component 2: Encouraging women and young women affected by conflict to access sustainable livelihoods and socioeconomic rehabilitation.
• Focus on the districts of Palma, Mocimboa da Praia, Nangade, Muidumbe, Macomia, and Quissanga
• Collaboration between ADIN, IFPELAC, BAU, provincial and district government agencies, and the corporate sector is anticipated.
• Interventions’ Types
• Intervention 1 Create and carry out a plan of vocational training for women and young women impacted by armed conflict.
• 33,950,000 MZN is the available budget.
• Intervention 2 Conduct crucial workshops to help women and young women build their employability skills and provide advice for job searchers in line with the National Employment Policy.
• Budget readily available: MZN 5,408,000
• Conduct business mentoring and financial assistance programmes for women and young women affected by armed violence.
• Budget readily available: 66980,000 MZN
• Facilitate business licencing for small and micro companies run by women.
• Budget at Hand: 24,035,000 MZN
• There is a total of 130,373,000 MZN available for component 2.
• Component 3: Improving women’s and girls’ access to effective services and safety nets relevant to combating gender-based violence and conflicts.
• Focus on the districts of Palma, Mocimboa da Praia, Nangade, Muidumbe, Macomia, and Quissanga
• Expected Partners: Provincial and Local Governments, Other Civil Society/Grassroots/Religious Organisations, and Multisectoral Mechanism
• First Intervention
• Capacity building of service providers who provide comprehensive services to redress—including protection, mental and physical health, psychosocial and legal services—to gender-based violence and conflict-related violence cases to women and girls in return areas.
• Budget readily available: 14,421,000 MZN
• 14,421,000 MZN is the total amount allotted for component 3.
• Timeframe
• The organisation will have around two years (January 2024 through November 2025) to carry out the proposed tasks, for which the duties are listed above in this TOR.
• The final three months of the project should be devoted to reporting and the creation of knowledge and communication products, but it is also expected that the responsible partner creates ongoing knowledge and communication products on the project’s outcomes (it is advised to reflect this element throughout the proposal).

Expected Results

• Returnee and conflict-affected women will be empowered to play active roles in the design, construction, and upkeep of sufficient, accessible, safe, and resilient resettlement homes in fragile and conflict-affected communities.
• Outcome 2: Conflict-affected women and young women have access to viable means of subsistence and socioeconomic possibilities.
• Outcome 3: More women and girls affected by war have access to efficient services and safety nets in transitional housing and return locations.

anticipated results

• Output 1.1: More returnee women will gain skills and find employment in the (re)construction and upkeep of appropriate, affordable, safe, and resilient housing.
• Output 1.2: In collaboration with national and local authorities, new appropriate, accessible, safe, and resilient houses are created in priority sites with community involvement, particularly from women who have returned.
• In return areas, women and young women have access to technical and vocational education and training as well as essential employability skills, according to output 2.1.
• The conflict-affected women and young women have access to microfinance and business development assistance (micro and small enterprises), according to output 2.2.
• In return places, women and girls who have experienced violence have access to a full range of resources for redress, including adequate protection, medical care, psychosocial support, and legal assistance.

Competencies

• Required technical/functional competencies
• In order to advance gender equality, women’s empowerment, Women, Peace and Security, and gender-responsive humanitarian action strategies/programmes/initiatives, UN Women is looking to partner with organisations that have a clear emphasis on and a wealth of experience in these areas. Particularly, the organisations must to adhere to the following standards:
• Legal standing: Applicants must be recognised by the Mozambican government as legitimate civil society organisations, which are non-state, not-for-profit, volunteer Entities founded by individuals outside of the government and the market. Community-based organisations (CBOs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs), youth-led organisations, LGBTI organisations, and faith-based organisations are among the CSOs, but they are not the only ones.
• Focus on gender equality: Applicants must show they have expertise putting gender equality projects into action, particularly with a focus on stopping violence against women and girls.
• Candidates must have a policy in place about how to handle sexual exploitation and abuse in the workplace.
• Audit reports: If available, certified audit reports for two to three prior fiscal years (and 2020) must be submitted by the applicant.
• Endorsement: Applicants are required to submit a minimum of one Letter of Endorsement from a multi-stakeholder organisation (including UN offices other than UN Women), a gender equality or women’s empowerment mechanism, or a governmental authority on gender equality. Please be aware that letters of endorsement from UN Women offices won’t be accepted in order to maintain impartiality.
• Impact, risk, and strategy for mitigating conflict.

Significant notes

• Ideal proposals would show collaborations between government agencies, the commercial sector, and civil society organisations. Organisations having a track record of collaborating with regional women’s organisations, particularly grassroots organisations and specialised networks for the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship, will receive special consideration. Organisations with a track record of working to alter men’s and boys’ behaviour at the community level as well as opinion, community, and religious leaders will also receive priority.
• It must be made clear in proposals from multiple organisations or entities which one will assume primary responsibility for project management and contractual duties.
• UN Women will only work with the applicant organisation and only sign agreements with them.
• Under this request for proposals, qualified organisations that are already working with UN Women may submit applications.
• Other skills that, while not necessary, can add value include:
• Women-led Organisation: Applicants with 50% or more female employees and a female leader have an advantage.
• Locally Based: Organisations applying who are locally based (at the Provincial or District levels) have an advantage. All applicants, however, must be able to demonstrate local presence in the province or at the district level.

Qualification Requirements

• The following individuals are not permitted to apply for either project:
• Agencies or institutions of the government
• UN organisations
• Groups, financial institutions, and development organisations that operate on a bilateral or international basis
• Private sector organisations
• specific people

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