Background
Through its country and regional programmes and projects in South Eastern Europe, UN Women provides technical and financial assistance to a range of partners towards the implementation of their national and international commitments to strengthen the realization of women’s rights and gender equality. Within one of the key thematic areas of its mandate, (peace and security) UN Women is providing technical support to key security actors and CSOs in advancing the implementation and monitoring of commitments under UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (and related Resolutions 1820, 1888, 1889 and 1960). To this end, under its regional project, Advancing the Implementation of UN SCR on Women, Peace and Security in Western Balkans (2011- 2013) and as based on country needs and priorities, UN Women is providing support to further strengthen stakeholder capacities to formulate, implement and effectively monitor commitments under UNSCR 1325. Further, UN Women fosters regional cooperation and networking (between civil society, gender experts, advocates, civil servants, and parliamentarians) in order to create an enabling environment for information and knowledge sharing and the exchange of good practice on UNSCR 1325 implementation.
Deliverables
In specific, the Contractor is expected to deliver:
- Development of specific methodologyfor examining the human security index through a gender lenswiththe application of the methodology in one
pilotmunicipality
- Conduct a research on human security index from a gender perspective in one pilot municipality (in Macedonian)
- Implementtailored training session to members of a local municipal administration (Mayor, Coordinators for gender equality, Commissions for
gender equality and inter ethnic dialogue, local prevention councils and other relevant stakeholders) in onemunicipality(to present research
findings and strengthen their capacity to implement the concept of human security at the local level)
- The identification of follow up actions and support municipality in making proper arrangements/commitments regarding the concept of human
security
- The development of a post-training implementation report, including recommendations as to good practice/lessons learned for future work in the
area (in English).
Eligibility
Registered for profit or not-for-profit entities are eligible to submit proposals.
Deadline: 25 February 2013