WOMEN IN SOUTH SUDAN’S SECURITY SECTOR: A PATH TO INCLUSIVE AND TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hereby invites not-for-profit international and national partners registered in South Sudan - working on education (mostly), gender, peace, and security - to support the “Women in South Sudan's Security Sector” Project over 30 months.
Proposals should be made for a minimum one and up to 3 States (Greater Bahr-El-Ghazal (Aweil), Greater Equatoria (Juba), and Greater Upper Nile (Malakal)).
Project Outcome 1: Women in security sector are better equipped to participate and influence security sector reform, leadership, peacebuilding in full compliance with the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) and Human Rights Due Diligence Policy (HRDDP).
Output 1: Participation of women is increased in adult literacy, computer skills and accelerated learning programmes.
developing and delivering, along with the South Sudan National Police Service, South Sudan People’s Defense Force, and National Prisons Service of South Sudan, Civil Defense Service, South Sudan Wildlife Service’s training centres, capacity-building training and mentorship programs tailored specifically within the security sector targeting women in the lower ranks with low levels of literacy. The training will focus on leadership skills, decision-making, conflict resolution, and essential competencies, including numeracy and literacy.
Activity 1. 1: Conduct consultation meetings with key project stakeholders for sensitization and mobilization of women in security sector for adult literacy programme.
Activity 1.2: Conduct an inception meeting with alternative education system (AES) partners to discuss the review of functional adult literacy materials.
Activity 1.3: Review and validation of functional adult literacy (FAL) materials to make them appropriate and context-specific to the women in security sector.
Activity 1.4: Establish or support set-up of temporary learning facilities and computer equipment to expand learning opportunities for the women in the security sector.
Activity 1.5: Identify and train functional adult literacy and numeracy, Accelerated Learning Program (ALP), computer skills’ facilitators in the three selected project locations.
Activity 1.6: Print and distribute functional adult/accelerated education teaching and learning materials to the three project locations.
Activity 1.7: Provide and scale-up functional literacy and numeracy and information and communications technology (ICT) classes for women in the security sector.
Targets
- 270 (90 in each project location) women from the South Sudan’s security sector.
- 270 (90 in each location) accelerated learning program (ALP) books printed and distributed to the project participants.
- 6 (2 in each location) facilitators identified and trained to conduct the various trainings
The tender contains sustainability considerations addressing gender equality and women's empowerment.
Examples:
Gender mainstreaming, targeted employment of women, promotion of women-owned businesses.
The tender contains sustainability considerations related to human rights, fundamental principles and rights at work, occupational health and safety, fairly traded goods, targeted employment of people with disabilities, etc.
The tender contains sustainability considerations regarding local MSMEs, local communities or disadvantaged groups.
Examples:
Reserved labour opportunities for local communities, use of local materials, reserved procurements for local companies
The tender incorporates contract conditions/ KPIs that stipulate the verification of suppliers' environmental and social claims through “spot checks” and audit provisions.