📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: UN WOMEN - Moldova Country Office
Country: Moldau Funding amount: € 2.150.000,00 Project start: 01.12.2024 End: 30.11.2028
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The overall objective is that women and girls, especially the most vulnerable, including women not in education, employment or training (NEET), benefit from inclusive, competitive, and sustainable economic development and access to gender-responsive workplaces and employment.
Expected results
1. Duty-bearers have data and tools for inclusive and gender-responsive employment policies for women and girls, including women with children, NEET, and women with disabilities, in five target rayons.
2. Women and girls (current and future job seekers), with a focus on vulnerable groups and women with children, including NEET women, have the knowledge and in-demand skills to foster employability.
3. National and local stakeholders have improved the quality and inclusiveness of support services, family-friendly policies, and childcare services/public creches for increased employability of women and girls.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The project aims to reach around 1,500 women and girls, including 600 women with children who are beneficiaries of employment and childcare services, 500 young people not in education, employment, or training receiving training and active employment measures, up to 200 older women engaged in requalification pilots for flexible employment, 100 women from vulnerable groups participating in education and employment services, and 100 women and girls from other socio-economic categories in the target regions. Out of the total number, up to 45 individuals with disabilities will be targeted. UN Women will mainstream disability inclusion across all activities and provide tailored approaches to other vulnerable groups such as young people not in education, employment, or training, the elderly, women with children, persons with disabilities and their caregivers, and Roma women. The implementing partner is UN Women, together with UNFPA. The focus of the region will be five rayons in Moldova, that will be identified in the inception phase.
Activities
The project follows a three-pronged approach to increasing women's employment rate through:
a) flexible skills formation with focus on vulnerable groups (working with professional education service providers and Vocational education and training institutions)
b) gender-responsive, inclusive employment measures for NEET, women with children, elderly, and vulnerable groups with the active involvement and capacitation of Territorial Employment Offices.
c) family-friendly infrastructure (working with the public and private sector, private companies, and local public authorities)
Context
Moldova has the highest prevalence of female inactivity in the Eastern Partnership countries, despite women having a higher average level of education than men. Female labour force participation and employment rates consisten
