Applications Invited for CSO consultations on Beijing +30 to review Gender Equality gains in India

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About the Organization

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. As the UN agency with the mandate to work on gender equality, UN Women is responsible for leading and coordinating United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world and at the country level. UN Women is also expected to provide strong and coherent leadership in support of countries’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society, the nodal government agency, private sector and other relevant actors.

About the Grant

In 1995, 189 governments, under the auspices of the United Nations, came together to adopt the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) at the Fourth World Conference on Women. The BPfA is a landmark document in the history of women’s rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment, that called for action on the “Twelve Critical Areas of Concern.”

In 2025, the UN will celebrate 35 years of this Declaration and review the progress achieved on gender equality and women’s empowerment to explore possibilities for further improvement.

The Beijing+30 Review aims to shape and accelerate a transformative agenda for gender equality and women’s empowerment. This would indicate where countries stand in terms of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as it marks ten years since the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted and universally endorsed by governments, donors, women’s movements, civil society and other stakeholders.

This stocktaking assumes greater significance as it will give the participating governments an understanding of the ground realities and give the world community critical insights, thus providing tangible opportunities to reinvigorate the global political mandate for gender equality as well as create consciousness of this mandate among a new generation of people.

The exercise is expected to generate local, national and regional processes, involving governments and civil society and pave the way for the review of Beijing +30 at the Commission on Status of Women in New York in March 2025. The exercise will inspire suggestions to facilitate better implementation of the BPfA, thereby underlining the motto made at Beijing, “All issues are women’s issues.”

With this context, UN Women India country office plans to support the undertaking of comprehensive stock taking and document the progress made under BPfA, including its implementation and challenges encountered to achieve the agenda of gender equality and empowerment of women. The process will include taking stock of achievements, identifying gaps, and outlining strategies for addressing those gaps and challenges and chalking out priority actions, in close consultation with Civil Society, women’s right networks, human rights advocates, academia, media etc. The exercise will also align and build synergies with work on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and galvanize its gender-responsive implementation.

Since the process is to be driven by CSO, UN Women will be constituting a national level CSO Steering Committee through a process of self nomination in parallel with the selection of the agency. This voluntary CSO steering committee will work with the Anchor Agency towards ensuring an inclusive, participatory process in the convenings and follow up on the Beijing +30 review process at the National level. They will also work together to feed the outcomes of the convening at the sub-national levels are effectively communicated to the regional and global level.

There are two members from the Indian CSOs in the Asia Pacific Regional CSO committee who will be part of the CSO steering committee.

General Overview of services required/results: -

• Coordination of the national CSO steering committee
• Organization of up to three sub-national and one national consultations in India  
• Facilitate CSO participation in the national, regional and global Beijing +30 review processes
• Documentation of the sub-national and national processes
• Abide by principles mentioned in the following section

Eligibility

• The agency should have at least 08 years of experiences of programmes and advocacy work on gender, rights of women and girls. The agency must be part of feminist discourse building within the national, regional context.
• It is desirable that the agency has partnered with a UN system
• Must have substantive experience of convening on women’s rights and gender equality with multiple stakeholders.
• Capacity to deliver expected results in current context (governance and management competencies, and financial and administrative competency).
• Legally registered (active registration status) with necessary documents in place

How to Apply

Submission deadline: 19 July 2024

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