RFP - Strengthening Response and Service Provisioning for GBV in Tamil Nadu

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About the Organization

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.

UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. It works globally to make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for women and girls and stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on four strategic priorities:

• Women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems
• Women have income security, decent work and economic autonomy
• All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence
• Women and girls contribute to and have greater influence in building sustainable peace and resilience, and benefit equally from the prevention of natural disasters and conflicts and humanitarian action

About the Proposal

UN Women seeks services of twocivil society organizations to strengthen the continuation of service provision and operations to gender based violence survivors and vulnerable women, including shelters, psycho-social counselling, and legal support. Facilitate access of women and girl survivors to government-run helpline services and collect and analyse data to improve response by service providers.

Scope of Work

UN Women seeks the services of a civil society organization (hereinafter referred as proponent organization) working with community-based organizations of women from the most marginalized communities (including but not limited to) scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, minorities, survivors of rape and violence, survivors of trafficking, disabled, women headed households (hereinafter referred astarget group) to strengthen services offered to them and improve their response for gender-based violence. It is expected that the proponent organisation will conduct the activities one of the select programme state i.e.  Tamil Nadu. The organization should have experience in conducting mapping studies, research on effectiveness for service provisioning, preparing a directory of stakeholders, conducting workshops to validate the studies on strengthening services and improving response to GBV. The proponent organization is expected to submit a proposal to contribute to the outcome of the Programme shown below.

Deliverables

Outcome: Enhanced institutional capacities of governance institutions to prevent and respond to all forms of violence against women.

Key Results:

• A mapping study on shelter homes, provisions for psychosocial counselling and legal support by state and non-state-run organisations/ institutions in Tamil Nadu
• A Research Report on the effectiveness of service provisioning especially for helplines[state- attached to the One Stop Centres (OSCs) and Non state} along with provision of legal support, psychosocial counselling, and shelter homes
• One Directory on CBOs, women's groups and government-run institutions with some details on specific service provision components (e.g., details of shelter homes, OSCs, provisions for psychosocial counselling and legal support, helplines etc.) for Tamil Nadu
• One handbook on principles of survivor-centric psychosocial counselling/ specific laws and policies on EVAW in Tamil Nadu 
• Conduct Workshops and consultations to validate the findings from the mapping study, research findings, Draft Directory of resources and handbook.

Competencies

Organizational competencies:

• Must have a minimum seven years of experience in service provisioning for survivors of sexual and gender based violence
• Substantial experience of working with Central Ministries/ State Departments, and other government agencies for implementing programs related to EVAW in Tamil Nadu
• Can be a service provider under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act or they may be providing services such as connecting to counsellors, shelters, hospitals, law enforcement etc.
• Must have worked closely with the state government of Tamil Nadu related to strengthening of service delivery for EVAW in the last 5 years
• Substantial experience in delivering research outputs related to EVAW

Qualifications and competencies of Team Leader-

• 7 to 10 years of experience in National/State level working with development and implementation projects focusing on women at risk/survivors of violence and gender-based service providers
• Must have Master’s or equivalent degree in the field of social sciences, gender, social work and related area.
• Demonstrable experience in research related to women at risk/survivors of violence is a must
• Demonstratable experience in working in the domain of service provisioning for women at risk/survivors of violence is a must
• Demonstrable experience in advocacy initiatives with Government, women’s groups, CSOs and other key stakeholders on prevention of violence against women is desirable
• Fluency in English is a must. Working knowledge of Tamil is desirable

Qualifications and competencies of Team Members:

• Must have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in coordinating projects preferably on Violence against women, Gender Equality and Women Empowerment
• Must have Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in the field of social sciences, gender, social work and related area.
• Experience in research on gender equality or EVAW is desirable
• Fluency in English is a must. Working knowledge of Tamil is desirable

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