The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women {UN Women) Tanzania, under it’s project on Strengthening Women’s and Girls’ Meaningful Participation, Leadership, and Economic Rights at Local Levels (WLER), is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals from organizations with a track record in human rights, women’s rights and gender equality to implement creative and innovative strategies, approaches, and interventions to transform gender norms, discriminatory behavior and practices: as well as to promote women and girls’ voices, meaningful participation, leadership, and economic rights at the local level (ward, village, streets, vitongoji, e.t.c.) in the selected district councils of Dar es Salaam, Coast, Lindi, Mtwara, Arusha and Singida.
The organizations should have a base and previous experience in implementing projects in the respective regions. If it’s a national organization that does not have experience in the respective regions, but plans to expand its projects to the WLER Project regions building on learnings from similar projects, it should indicate previous collaboration with other human and women’s rights organizations and networks including those promoting the rights of young women and women with disabilities and duty bearers, including local government actors and community facilitators in the respective regions to deliver on the project objectives. The organizations should also demonstrate experience working with key influencers such as community and traditional leaders, religious leaders, male gender equality and women’s empowerment champions, decision-makers and the media.
The full Call for Proposal (CFP) may be downloaded from:
https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2022/08/call-for-propos als unw-esa-tza-2022-001-transforming-gender-norms
The deadline for the Call for Proposals has been extended to 16″ September at 23.59 hrs (EAT)
(Tanzanian Time).
All proposal MUST be submitted through email [email protected] with subject line REF: CFP No. UNW-ESA-TZA-2022- 001 on Transforming Gender norms and discriminatory behaviors and practices at local levels to promote women and girls’ voices, meaningful participation, and leadership.
Only those short-listed will be contacted for further screening and consideration. Proposals received after the deadline will not be considered. For more information, please email: agness,[email protected] by 16” September 2022 at 23.59 hrs (EAT)
