📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P171158
Region: Africa west
Commitment Amount: Us$ 50.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 50.00 million
Women and girls are a key catalyst for change in CAR and empowering them is a long-term and transformative process for the country.It will require changing deeply rooted social norms and beliefsamong the entire population about the role of women in the family and society more broadly, including views around adolescent pregnancy and early marriage. It will also require increased access, through both demand and supply side interventions, to essentialhealth services, secondary education, access toinclusivefinanceand vocational training.This will enable women to safely space their pregnancies, survive childbirth and expect that their children will grow into healthy adults. It will also provide them with economic opportunities outside of the household. Taken together, this will delay pregnancy and marriage into adulthood so that girls can complete all levels of education and gain critical skills that enable them to participate in the sectors that will drive the country’s economy forward.29.It is extremely difficult to reach communities beyond the district capitals in CAR, so most women, adolescent girls and their children have never accessed or received a complete package of integrated services. The uptake of integrated services and key positive practices in CAR to empower women and adolescent girls will require a huge effort at the community level to reach the most vulnerable groups. The project’sfirst component will therefore deliver integrated community-based services and generate demand for essential services. It will establish a safe space within communities where women and adolescent girls can congregate and be targeted with a range of interventions for themselves and their children. It will also raise awareness among all community members, and particularly community leaders, of the importance of obtaining these interventions.30.Not all lifesavingand life-enhancing interventions to empower women and adolescent girls can be delivered in a community setting.The project’ssecond component will therefore link women and adolescent girls to primary health services, the education system and vocational training.The project’s second component will be closely linked to the first in that it will create a bridge between community safe spaces where women and adolescent girls are targeted to more formal systems outside of the community. 31.The project’s first and second components will be complemented bythe third component which will providenational level advocacy for women and girl’s empowerment and capacity building for better planning and coordination of the wide range of sectors that contribute human capital formation in CAR. Thesenational level efforts will be targeted to the Ministry of Economy, P
