Call for proposals-Nepal-Strengthening capacities of duty bearers and rights holders for effective Gender Based Violence (GBV) response in the COVID 19 context

Submission deadline: 04 May 2021

The initiative is 1) to strengthen access of GBV survivors to pro-bono legal service; 2) to strengthen capacities of law enforcement officials to provide gender responsive services and 3) to strengthen the institutional capacities of grassroots women’s organizations (GWOs) to advocate for gender equality, access to justice, and ending GBV.


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Contact person: Anjana Vaidya

E-mail: anjana.vaidya(at)unwomen.org

Tel. + 977-01-5523200

Call for proposals-CFP-IDN-2021-001-Utilize and Strengthen gender-responsive mechanism to promote peaceful communities and gender equality in Indonesia

Submission deadline: 07 May 2021

UN Women Indonesia is seeking to engage a Responsible Party to support the Government of Indonesia in implementing gender-responsive conflict prevention, including the WPS approach to PVE.

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Contact person's name: Pomi Moges

Email address: pomi.moges(at)unwomen.org

Tel: 62 85210748427

Call for proposals-Gender Responsive Climate Resilient Agriculture under EmPower Project (CFP-BGD-2021-001)

Submission deadline: 25 April 2021

The objective of this CFP is to hire a Responsible Party (RP) (i) to capacitate women farmers with improved knowledge, skills, and information on “Gender Responsive Climate Resilient Agriculture” to ensure an enabling market network to practice climate smart agriculture, and (ii) to improve access to user friendly and action oriented agrometeorological and early warning information for women farmers and women led CSOs at the most climate vulnerable districts in Bangladesh. This CFP is for Bangladesh only.

Contact information

Contact person's name: Dilruba Haider

Email address: dilruba.haider(at)unwomen.org

Tel: 88 01777737507

Call for Applications for Small Grants for Local Civil Society Organizations from Cahul and Ungheni districts in Moldova

Submission deadline: 12 April 2021

UN Women Moldova plans to award small grants to eligible Moldovan civil society organizations (CSOs) in the range of USD 5,000 to USD 10,000. The small grants are intended exclusively to support the institutional capacity development of CSOs from Cahul and Ungheni districts to enable them to advocate for agender equality and women empowerment. The Small Grant Agreement will be implemented for a maximum period of 6 months, starting with May 2021. UN Women invites eligible applicants to submit small grants applications for eligible activities, as elaborated in this advertisement. UN Women will consider awarding several small grants.


Contact information

  • Contact person’s name: Polina Panainte
  • Email address: polina.panainte@unwomen.org
  • Telephone (including country code): +37369189671

Call for proposals-Advancing the rights of women engaged in sex work in the COVID 19 context (CFP-2021-002-NPL)

Submission deadline: 16 April 2021

The objective of this initiative is to support 500 individuals those involved in sex work in province 3, with the aim to address their immediate needs as the crisis evolves with a comprehensive support package in terms of cash, food and non-food items; address vulnerabilities those rooted in intersecting oppressions, by providing alternative livelihood opportunities, enhancing access to information, services and resources; and strengthening of their voice and agency.

Contact information

Contact person's name: Rachana Bhattarai

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

Tel: + 977-01.5523200

Call for proposals - Empowering women through safe gender responsive food markets during COVID19

Submission deadline: 14 April 2021

Call for proposals - Empowering women through safe gender responsive food markets during COVID19

Support the empowerment of vulnerable women marketers for recovery and resilience from socio economic shocks, through effective participation in safe, inclusive and violence free markets as last mile food distributors. Gender responsive safe markets shall be constructed complying with occupational health and safety standards in response to COVID 19, women entrepreneurship developed and institutions for gender responsive governance of food supply systems strengthened.

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Contacts Name: Nicea Gumbo 

Telephone no: + 263 4 33883144

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Call for proposals Enhancing Women Resilience in Refugee Camps and Host Communities

Submission deadline: 30 March 2021

UN WOMEN Kenya Country Office invites qualified parties to submit Technical and Financial Proposals to provide services associated with the UN-WOMEN requirement for Responsible Party for the project, " Enhancing Women’s Resilience in Refugee Camps and Host Communities "

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Call for proposals - Creation of Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces for Women and Girls

Submission deadline: 09 March 2021

UN Women Ethiopia is implementing two safe city and safe public spaces projects in Addis Ababa and Hawassa as part of UN Women’s Safe Cities and Safe Public Places for Women and Girls Global Flagship Initiative. To this end, the office would like to engage a Civil Society Organization to implement community-based interventions on Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces for Women and Girls free from sexual harassment (SH) and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls


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Call for proposals-Strengthening women’s access to sustainable livelihoods in the COVID-19 context (UNW-AP-NPL- CFP-2021-001)

Submission deadline: 04 March 2021

The primary objective of this initiative is to ensure women's economic recovery and help them move up in the value chains in the aftermath of COVID-19. The selected programme partner will work in close collaboration with UN Women’s existing service provider SABAH Nepal to build on the past work carried out though the intervention ‘provision of comprehensive services for the economic empowerment of women’.

Contact information

Contact person's name: Santosh Acharya

Email address: santosh.acharya(at)unwomen.org

Tel: 977-9841483877

Expression of Interest - Establishment of Civil Society Regional Reference Group

Submission deadline: 22 February 2021

The Spotlight Initiative intends to work closely with women’s movements and relevant human rights-based civil society organizations (CSOs) on the design and implementation of its Programmes in a mutually supportive and reinforcing way, deploying and building upon their vast knowledge and experience. To this end the Initiative wishes to establish a Civil Society Regional Reference Group (CS-RRG) as an institutional mechanism to inform implementation of the Africa Regional Programme

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