Strengthening Humanitarian Response to Violence against Women in Conflict-Affected Areas

            The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) seeks to identify capable and committed national civil society organizations for the joint implementation of a project targeted at preventing gender-based violence (GBV), providing legal support and socio-psychological services to violence survivors, improving reproductive health care at the primary level with a focus on the needs of GBV survivors and most-at-risk populations, as well as raising public awareness on GBV and improving inter-agency and inter-sectoral coordination in humanitarian response to GBV. The project will run for 12 months and cover five regions of Ukraine most affected by the armed conflict: Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Lugansk and Zaporizhzhia.

Requirements

·          Official registration as a non-profit legal entity in Ukraine

·          Specialization in GBV services (for organizations applying for output 1) AND/OR sexual and reproductive health services (for organizations applying for output 2) AND/OR public information, awareness raising and mass communications (for organizations applying for output 3)

·          Sufficient technical and human resources capacity for professional training in social services, GBV issues, sexual and reproductive health (for organizations applying for outputs 1 and 2)

·          Sufficient management capacity to deliver complex multi-stakeholder projects

·          Field presence (through own branches or networking) in all five regions covered by the project: Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk (government and non-government controlled territories), Kharkiv, Lugansk (government and non-government controlled territories), and Zaporizhzhia

·          Experience of implementing international projects is desirable

·          Knowledge of the UN operational policies and procedures is an advantage

Process

Interested organizations should submit their expressions of interest to UNFPA atukr@unfpa.org by COB 19 June 2015 enclosing the information listed below (please attach documents signed by the Chief Executive Officer as scanned copies in pdf format):

·          Expression of interest letter explaining how the organization meets all the requirements and its comparative advantages

·          Full legal name, address and contact information of applying organization

·          Copy of valid legal registration in the country

·          Documented fulfilment of tax obligations and tax registration/EDRPOU number

·          Copy of audited financial statements for the past three years

·          Organizational structure chart (organigramme) and description of field presence in the project regions

·          Short description of previous and existing activities in the subject matter area(s) and how long the activities have been carried out in each of the areas

Please find all additional information in the document attached.

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