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UN Women is accepting proposals for the Project on Women’s Access to Justice and Gender Capacity Building of Judges.

Area of Work

• Reducing the prevailing social norms and gender stereotypes by addressing the key challenges women and girls face in the country; building the capacity of judges on gender-based approaches during court hearings; support the improvement of court area environment for convenience of clients (in particular, women and children) and informational means of the courts for awareness raising of women-clients; 

• addressing high prevalence of gender-based violence; 

• promoting women’s access to human and survivors centered services; improving knowledge and raising women’s awareness on their rights and protection system.

Scope of Work

• Under direct supervision of UN Women Programme Coordinator, the selected Responsible Party is expected to fulfill the assignment with the view of promoting favorable social norms, attitudes and behaviors at community and individual levels to prevent VAWG and harmful practices; strengthen and enhance the gender capacity of judges and lawyers of the target districts, and strengthening women crisis centers capacity to render services based on the survivor-centered approach on response to domestic/gender-based violence (GBV) reference mechanism and raise awareness of women and girls on their rights and protection mechanisms provided by relevant laws. 

Funding Information

• The budget range for this proposal should be TJS 2,340,000 – TJS 2,450,000

Eligibility

• Company/organization

  • Organization/ Public Association registered in Tajikistan.

  • Minimum 3 years of country-based professional experience.

  • Expert knowledge the field of addressing VAWG/VAWG, in various aspects of advocacy work, communications as well as social mobilization of the population towards ending VAWG, providing social inclusiveness. 

  • Experience in building capacity of Communities, CSOs, organizations with a reference to at least 2 relevant implemented projects.

  • Experience in implementation of community-based activities, awareness raising campaign and logistics support.

  • Availability of skilled human capacities to implement the assignment.

  • Well-established client relations with the national partners, CSOs, government structures/institutions and local authorities.

  • Financial System and Accountancy, Logistics and Procurement Policies in place

Post Date: November 12, 2024