📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: Diakonie ACT Austria gemeinnützige GmbH
Land: South of Sahara, regional/multi-country Funding amount: € 1,200,000.00 Start: 01.01.2024 End: 31.12.2028
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
The programme aims at contributing towards gender transformation and disability inclusion in Lesotho and Uganda.
expected results
1) Improved gender and disability mainstreaming in government legislations and programmes through self-advocacy of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) and women with disabilities;
2) Increased accessibility of available Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services including improved Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention and response for women with disabilities in project areas;
3) Increased access, retainment, and graduation of girls and boys with disabilities from primary and secondary schools in project areas by addressing intersectional discriminations;
4) Improved livelihoods of women with disabilities through formal and informal income-generating activities in the project area.
target group
Total direct beneficiaries: 3,821 persons (60% f, 40% m) out of which 74% persons with disabilities; main target group: Women and girls with disabilities, duty bearers and service providers.
Measures
Partner organisations in both countries will form and capacitate local advocacy structures for gender-transformative and disability-inclusive programming and advocacy. At national level, important legal and development processes will be influenced for gender and disability mainstreaming and enhanced implementation. Furthermore, partner organisations will strengthen disability-inclusive GBV prevention and response at community level complementing these activities with advocacy activities for gender-sensitive and disability-inclusive SRH services, empowerment measures through peer-to-peer support for women with disabilities and male engagement through working with male champions for GBV prevention. Further activities: establishment of model schools for inclusive and gender-sensitive education; training of inclusive clubs in schools to create an inclusive school environment; advocacy for gender and disability mainstreaming in national curricula to sustainably establish inclusive and gender-sensitive education in the education system; creation and capacitation of inclusive savings groups; capacity building for income-generating activities through skills, business management and backyard gardening training, and connection with financial services; advocacy for formal employment for women with disabilities through provision of data, affirmative action and awareness-raising.
Outcome 2: Partner organisations will strengthen disability-inclusive GBV prevention and response at community level complementing these activities with advocacy activities for gender-sensitive and disability-inclusive SRH services, empowerment measures through peer-to-peer support for women with disabilities and male engagement thr
