📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: UN WOMEN - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Country: Afghanistan Contract type: Standardvertrag Project start: 01.04.2025 Funding amount: € 2.000.000,00 End: 31.03.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The programme aims to strengthen the voice, choice, and agency of Afghan women and girls in crisis-affected settings by mainstreaming gender equality across the humanitarian coordination architecture and response, and ensuring equitable access to multi-sectoral essential services, information, and humanitarian assistance.
Expected results
Result 1: Continued integration of women’s voices and gender perspectives across the humanitarian coordination system and humanitarian response,
Result 2: Improved access to multi-sectoral essential services, including cash, mental health and psychosocial support, referrals, and literacy and numeracy, through dedicated spaces for women and girls and targeted humanitarian action.
Target group / Beneficiaries
With the Austrian contribution, UN Women aims to reach 4,000 women and girls, 104 women-led/focused organizations, and 1,000 cluster and working group members.
Location: Afghanistan nation-wide
Activities
- Chair the Gender in Humanitarian Action working group at the national and local level and strengthen the inclusion of local women's groups across the humanitarian response,
- Develop evidence base around women’s specific needs in the humanitarian response and monitor women’s participation in the response, to inform programming and advocacy,
- Develop resources and tools to build the capacity of cluster partners on gender mainstreaming and women’s participation across humanitarian programming,
- Mentoring and capacity building of local women’s organizations to engage in humanitarian architecture,
- Provide dedicated gender expertise to the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) as well as the Inter Cluster Coordination, and Humanitarian Regional Teams / Inter Cluster Coordination Groups at the regional level,
- Provide secretariat, strategic and technical support to the Women’s Advisory Group to the HCT,
- Provision of multi-sector essential services for women by women in women safe spaces, including Multi-Purpose Women's Centers,
- Provide cash-based emergency support to women and girls in targeted communities,
- Provide feedback and complaints mechanisms for accountability and a direct feedback loop for women and girls.
Context
The humanitarian context in Afghanistan is characterized by significant structural and systematic challenges, a severely constrained women's rights environment, inadequate essential services, a struggling economy, prolonged food insecurity, and frequent natural hazards. These issues create a persistent state of chronic need among large segments of the population, who are still recovering from decades of conflict and lack resilience to shocks, leaving them at constant risk of falling into acute humanitar
