📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: Working Group - Policy Dialogue 2022-2025
Country: South of Sahara, regional/multi-country Funding amount: € 470,000.00 Start: 01.01.2023 End: 31.12.2025
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
Civil society capacity development for policy dialogue has been sustainably anchored in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania so that various civil society organizations can continuously influence political and legal processes with and in the interests of marginalized communities (contribution to SDGs 16, in particular 16.7, and SDG 17, in particular 17.9).
expected results
1. Access to knowledge on policy dialogue is available to a wide range of civil society stakeholders and policy dialogue is further institutionalised among partner organisations.
2. Political processes have been successfully pursued with and in favour of marginalised people and gender equality.
3. A regional multi-stakeholder community of practice (or similar exchange forum) for civil society capacity development and knowledge exchange on policy dialogue has been initiated by interested stakeholders in East Africa and includes women in leadership positions.
target group
The direct beneficiaries of the Small Action Funds (SAF) initiatives implemented by partner organizations are 17,022 (9,539 women, 7,483 men), while about 60,881 people (about 51% women) benefit indirectly from SAF activities. In addition, 6 partner organizations in East Africa benefit in the form of specific units and teams from further strengthening of capacities and support to sustainably anchor policy dialogue in their work and institutions. Up to 80 other organizations and actors will benefit through the exchange of findings and knowledge products with other projects and funding streams of Austrian partners as well as through East African partners. At least 10-12 organizations (including 6 East African consortium partners) will benefit directly from the Community of Practice or a similar exchange forum.
In addition, at least 80 people are expected to benefit from the implementation of an online course providing basic training in concepts and methods of policy dialogue.
Total number of direct beneficiaries of the project: 17,416.
Measures
Activities include: 1.1. Development of an e-learning course that offers basic training on policy dialogue for newcomers and serves as a refresher for more experienced staff of civil society organizations; 1.2. Follow-up measures at the level of individual partners with close involvement of management to further institutionalize policy dialogue at the organizational level and increase the (financial) volume for policy dialogue activities; 2.1. Continuation and follow-up of the already ongoing policy dialogue processes with a focus on the implementation phase, exit and ensuring sustainability; 2.2. Follow-up of the recommendations of the gender analyses as well as the specific exchange in connection with the Small Action Fund on selected topics (cross-learni
