The MGCSW department of Social work has < 400 social workers that specifically handle cases such as children and women who are living in high-risk circumstances, providing family mediation, addressing GBV cases, defilement, and child marriage, among others. Under this assignment Social Workers will be trained and accredited. The training must encompass universally accredited skills for social work and psychosocial support for women children and persons persons with disability.

A key undertaking for this call is to build the broader institutional and operational capacity of the South Sudan MGCSW at national and State levels. An Institutional Capacity Needs Assessment must be conducted to inform the preparation of the Capacity development plans and capacity building for atleast 450 memberes of the Ministry's Human Resource Force at national and state levels.

The overall purpose of this call for proposals is to provide grants to local civil society organizations in Uganda focused on conflict prevention and protection of women and girls in conflict and humanitarian contexts with local women and young women’s rights organizations. The call for proposals specifically contributes to WPHF’s Impact Area 2: Increased meaningful participation and decision-making of women in conflict prevention processes and response, and Impact Area 5: Enhanced safety, security and mental health of women and girls’ and their human rights respected and overall goal of contributing to peaceful and gender equal societies.

UN Women plans to engage a Responsible Party as defined in accordance with these documents. UN Women now invites sealed proposals from qualified proponents for providing the requirements as defined in the UN Women Terms of Reference. Proposals must be received by UN Women at the specified email address not later than 17:00 pm South Sudan (GMT+2), on 25 August 2023.

The United Nations entity for gender equality and women’s empowerment (UN Women) in Zimbabwe cordially invites interested youths (15-35 years) to apply to join its Youth Steering Committee. This initiative is part of UN Women’s efforts to accelerate meaningful youth engagement and inclusion, foster accountability for youth and promote impact-oriented inter-generational dialogues, mentorship, and leadership toward advancing gender equality in Zimbabwe. The Youth Steering Committee will draw strategic guidance from the UN Women Zimbabwe Country Office. It will be grounded on the core tenets of the UN Women’s Youth and Gender Equality Strategy, Generation Equality, and the UN Youth2030 Strategy.

Roles of the Youth Steering Committee

The Youth Steering Committee will be a voluntary structure with the primary role of advising the UN Women Zimbabwe Country Office on mechanisms to meaningfully engage young people while supporting the amplification of youth voices and facilitating their participation in key processes to influence policy, advocacy, and programming on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) in the country. The specific duties and responsibilities of the Steering Committee shall include:

• Dedicating at least two hours for committee meetings quarterly. The meetings will be conducted virtually as well as in person on dates agreed by the committee members and UN Women
• Providing input to UN Women’s programming to foster youth participation and integrate the interests and needs of young people in various contexts
• Participating in relevant events and initiatives organized by UN Women where possible

Composition of the UN Women Youth Steering Committee

The youth steering committee will be composed of: 

• a total of NINE members: diverse girls, boys, young women, and young men, including representatives of youth-focused organizations between the ages of 15-35 segmented into three clusters (15-24, 25-29,30-35) 
• 15-24 years – three seats
• 25-29 years – three seats
• 30-35 years – three seats

Gender balance and representativeness based on sector, age, and disability will be considered consistent with the Leaving No One Behind principle.

UN WOMEN Zimbabwe seeks to engage a Non Governmental Organization to support the implementation of activities under the Governance and Peace building portfolio. Under the frame of the project, work undertaken will contribute towards women' political participation, governance and movement building to realize an environment for women’s full, equal and meaningful leadership where women can lead, participate and influence national development processes as well as foster peace and social cohesion.

UN Women is seeking proposals from qualified and reputable Faith-Based Organizations as Responsible Partners (RPs) to effectively engage and collaborate with traditional and faith leaders in preventing and ultimately ending violence against women and girls in line with the goal of the “Faith and Cultural Leaders for Ending Gender-based violence by Advancing Advocacy, Policy and Social Norms Change in Nigeria and West Africa” (LEAP) project.

Faith-based organisations and CSOs that have made submissions in the call for proposal that ended on the 5th August 2023 are requested to re-apply if they are still interested.

UN Women is seeking proposals from qualified and reputable CSO as Responsible Partners to effectively engage and collaborate with traditional and faith leaders in preventing and ultimately ending VAWG in line with the goal of the “Faith and Cultural Leaders for Ending Gender-based violence by Advancing Advocacy, Policy and Social Norms Change in Nigeria and West Africa” (LEAP) project.

Faith-based organisations and CSOs that have made submissions in the call for proposal that ended on the 5th August 2023 are requested to re-apply if they are still interested.

UN Women East and Southern Africa seeks to partner with an 0rganisation of persons with disabilities (OPDs) operating in East and Southern Africa to guide actions that can strengthen UN Women’s partnerships with organizations of women and girls with disabilities working on EVAWG in East and Southern Africa. The collaboration will contribute to UN Women EVAWG Programmes establishing partnerships with organizations of women and girls with disabilities and interventions inclusive of women and girls with disabilities.

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, peace, and security. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality and work with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programs, and services needed to implement these standards.

UN Women is driven by its commitment to eliminate discrimination against women and girls, empower women, and achieve equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations (UN) system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action globally.

The focus of the UN Women South Sudan current Strategic Note 2021-2024 is to support the strengthening of the normative environment and women’s voices and agency, to strengthen women’s economic recovery and resilience through humanitarian action, integrate women’s participation in peace building and support the changing of social norms, to end all violence against women, including sexual violence, and to promote women’s effective participation in Peace and Security.

The Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Welfare (MGCSW) in South Sudan is mandated to promote gender equality, and social justice, and to safeguard the rights and welfare of women, children, persons with disability, and other vulnerable groups. The scope of the mandate of the Ministry covers gender and women’s empowerment, child, and social welfare functions. Among others, the Ministry is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies and legislations for the promotion of gender equality, women’s empowerment, child protection and welfare as well as social protection and welfare in South Sudan. The Ministry is composed of five directorates of Gender, and Child Welfare, Social Welfare, Administration, and Research and Planning. The mission of the MGCSW is to “Contribute towards the attainment of a just, peaceful, inclusive and equitable society” and its mission is to, “To provide policy guidance, effective service delivery coordinate, facilitate, monitor and evaluate gender equality, women’s empowerment, the rights of children, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups”.

Scope of work

The MGCSW in partnership with UN Women and with financial support from the World Bank is implementing a project aimed at promoting the social and economic empowerment of women and adolescent girls in South Sudan. The project called “South Sudan Women, Social and Economic Empowerment Project (SSWSEEP)”, will be implemented in 10 states and 2 administrative areas in South Sudan focusing on promoting women’s access to economic opportunities, protection, and access to GBV information and services and also strengthening the capacity of the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare to effectively implement its mandate of promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. The project has four (4) components, namely: Component 1: Community Empowerment Support to Women and Girls, Component 2: The Establishment of the Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Facility (WEOF), Component 3: Scaling up services for Survivors of GBV and Component 4: Institutional strengthening focusing on the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, Gender, and Youth Cluster, and related national institutions.

One of the key activities under Component 1: Community Empowerment Support to Women and Girls, is to pilot Poultry production in South Sudan, as a strategy for improving the nutrition and economic livelihoods of women and adolescent girls in South Sudan. The pilot phase of the project will promote increased production, promotion, and consumption of poultry, by ensuring that women and adolescent girls have the knowledge, skills, technical support, and market access necessary to make poultry farming a dependable source of revenue and nutrition.

Against this background, UN Women, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, and the PMU request expression of interest from interested International Livestock Research Institutes to pilot poultry production in South Sudan.