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Contact person's name: Avanthi Kalansooriya

Email address: avanthi.kalansooriya(at)unwomen.org

Telephone (including country code): +94763508718

The UN Women  Somalia Country Office is seeking to engage a CSO as a Responsible Party (RP) that works on women access to justice and women’s rights with a focus on ending violence against women  and support to disadvantaged groups and minorities to facilitate the capacity building of women in Somaliland on their rights as citizens.

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• Contact person name: Abdikadir Ahmed Noor         
• E-mail address: [ Click to reveal ]         

• Telephone (including country code):  +252 614 440 303

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• Contact person name: Tsgereda Lemma

• E-mail address: tsgereda.lemma@unwomen.org

• Telephone (including country code): +251 911 631576

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• Contact person’s name: The Office of the Focal Point for Women in the UN System at UN Women. Gender Parity Specialist Shinobu Sasaki and Gender Parity Analyst Minna Nurminen
• Email address: Focalpoint.forwomen[at]unwomen.org

This call for proposals is part of the regional project "Responding to the urgent needs of women and girls in marginalized and vulnerable situation exacerbated by the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Europe and Central Asia" which consists of a regional component and country components in Kyrgyzstan and Moldova. This call for proposal is specifically related to the regional component to be implemented at the regional level. As part of the regional component, UN Women will be empowering women to withstand the health crisis and its social and economic impacts, become self-reliant and resilient to future shocks and act as agents of change during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic through business and livelihood trainings and support. UN Women will also support women to improve their skills and capabilities to access sustainable livelihood opportunities and participate in decision-making processes.

Kindly note that deadline for the application was extended to 22 August. 

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• Contact person’s name:  Megumi Iizuka    
• Email address: megumi.iizuka@unwomen.org

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• Contact person name:                       Michael Jerry
• E-mail address:                                 [ Click to reveal ] (Clarification only not for proposal submission)
• Telephone (including country code):+255 699 596902

The CFP aims to strengthen security and justice sector institutions to respond to systematic and emerging tactics targeting indigenous and mestizo women peacebuilders in traditional and new terrains, such as the cyberterritories. It also addresses the need to support women’s initiatives in alliance with State institutions to prevent and respond to conflict and post-conflict sexual violence and to sustain gains in attaining justice and the strengthening of accountability.

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Contar con una organización o un consorcio de organizaciones cuenten con capacidad comprobada para implementar iniciativas encaminadas a promover los derechos de las mujeres y específicamente el derecho a una vida libre de violencia de género; con capacidad de articulación y  fortalecimiento de capacidades de  organizaciones de la sociedad civil, organizaciones feministas y entidades centradas en los derechos de las mujeres del nivel local y territorial; con miras a ampliar el alcance de sus actividades e impacto, posiblemente creando sinergias con defensoras y organizaciones a nivel regional. Facilitando el intercambio de experiencias, observaciones, lecciones y estrategias para aumentar su influencia y capacidad de abogacía y de respuesta a la VBG, y promover su articulación, a través de la conformación de redes de cuidadoras que puedan implementar mecanismos de protección comunitaria.

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Support cash-for-work opportunities for women and link these essential goods and services to organizations producing hygiene kits or providing health services in communities. Alongside this, dissemination of COVID-19 prevention messages, including addressing misogyny, hate speech and shared care burden and engaging women as community health ambassadors.

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