Call for Proposals: Strengthening women’s access to sustainable livelihoods for the economic recovery and resilience in the post COVID-19 context

Submission deadline: 31 May 2023

The overall objective is to support women and excluded groups for their economic recovery and resilience in the post COVID-19 context.

Contact information

  • Contact person: Santosh Acharya
  • Email: technical-bid.np[at]unwomen.org
  • Telephone: +977-01-4290000

Call for Proposals: Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) for advocacy on the protection of human and economic rights of female sex workers in Bangladesh

Submission deadline: 11 June 2023

The overall purpose of the assignment is for a CSO or a coalition of partners to support female sex workers, strengthening their voice and agency through advocacy with duty bearers for enhancing access to alternative livelihood options and other essential services.

Contact information

  • Contact person: Tapati Saha
  • Email: tapati.saha[at]unwomen.org
  • Telephone: +88 02 2222 88593

Call for proposals: Strengthening intergenerational and inclusive women’s movement in Bangladesh

Submission deadline: 29 May 2023

UN Women Bangladesh seeks to partner with a consortium/coalition of women-led CSOs/groups/networks with the objective of implementing initiatives to support the intergenerational women's movement in Bangladesh. The lead partner must have the operational capacity to convene intergenerational voices and perspective from national and grassroots women's rights organizations, networks, groups, and women leaders and representatives, from diverse and marginalized groups, across the country.

Contact information

  • Contact person: Punna Islam
  • Email: punna.islam[at]unwomen.org
  • Telephone: +880 2 2222 83828 (Ext: 111)

Call for Proposals: Building community-based capacity to strengthen prevention of and response to Human Trafficking in Timor-Leste

Submission deadline: 29 April 2023

UN Women is seeking a registered non-government organization (or joint application from several organizations) to support UN Women, as part of its collaboration with the Ministry of Interior and the local communities, in strengthening community-led efforts in gender-responsive and survivor-centered prevention and response to human trafficking in Timor-Leste, and promoting transformed attitudes and social norms to eliminate stigmatization and discrimination against survivors of trafficking at the community level.

Contact information

  • Contact person: Jeremias Gomes
  • Email: jeremias.gomes[at]unwomen.org
  • Telephone: +670 7706 6020

Call for Proposals: Using creative forms of storytelling to challenge dominant gender discriminatory normsI

Submission deadline: 29 May 2023

UN Women is seeking to partner with a national non-profit organisation to implement a component of the storytelling initiative focusing on exploring creative forms of storytelling for wider social change through development of communication products, dialogues, and advocacy.

Contact information

  • Contact person: Anjana Vaidya
  • Email: anjana.vaidya[at]unwomen.org

Call for Proposals: Strengthening community safety nets and feminist movement building to advance the rights of women and excluded groups, Phase II

Submission deadline: 01 May 2023

The objective of this assignment is to strengthen and expand community safety nets as a model for economic, political and social empowerment of women and excluded groups and foster collective voice, leadership and political action of women and excluded groups to address discriminatory social norms and harmful practices to promote and harness feminist knowledge building.

Contact information

  • Contact person: Rachana Bhattarai
  • Email: rachana.bhattarai[at]unwomen.org

Call for Proposals: Advancing the rights of individuals engaged in the sex work

Submission deadline: 05 June 2023

Overall objective of this project is to address vulnerabilities which are rooted in intersecting oppressions, by providing alternative livelihood opportunities, enhancing access to information, services and resources of individual engaged in sex work and facilitate their network building to create a safe space for care, support, solidarity; increasing their social capital and negotiation ability as well as strengthen their voice and agency.

Contact information

  • Contact person: Rachana Bhattarai
  • Email: rachana.bhattarai[at]unwomen.org

Call for Proposals: Women’s Resilience to Disasters Programme

Submission deadline: 14 April 2023

UN Women is in the process of identifying potential responsible parties for the implementation of the Women's Resilience to Disasters Programme in Solomon Islands. UN Women is seeking to partner with a civil society organization to implement national priorities, which were identified through consultative processes. The aim of the Programme is to render women's and girls' lives and livelihoods disaster-resilient, contributing to sustainable and secure communities.

Contact information

  • Contact person: Everlyn Fiulakwa
  • Email: everlyn.fiualakwa[at]unwomen.org
  • Telephone: (677) 22463 ext. 105

Call for Proposals: Promoting feminist action for socio-economic recovery from Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-resilient livelihoods

Submission deadline: 10 April 2023

The call for proposal is for RP selection to implementing and produce outputs for two umbrella projects.  One is Gender-Responsive COVID-19 Socio-Economic Recovery and the other is the EmPowering women for climate change-resilient societies project. By merging the coponent of the two, this call for proposal under the project "Promoting feminist action for socio-economic recovery from Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-resilient livelihoods" which will be within 18 month duration.

Contact information

  • Contact person: Rotvatey Sovann
  • Email: rotvatey.sovann[at]unwomen.org
  • Telephone: +855 85 822 348

Call for Proposal: Template for Responsible Parties "Women’s Economic Resilience for flood affectees in Pakistan"

Submission deadline: 14 March 2023

UN Women Pakistan aims to seeks services of Civil Society organisations to work to respond to the recovery needs of the 2022 flood affected communities, especially women and girls, UN Women Pakistan is proposing a 12-month project to be implemented in the nine most flood affected districts across three provinces of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Contact information

  • Contact person: Aisha Gul
  • Email: aisha.gul[at]unwomen.org
  • Telephone: 092-332-9509894