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REQUEST FOR TENDER

CONSULTANCY - DESIGN AND DELIVERY OF NSA CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM 2020 - POLICY AND GENDER RESPONSIVE BUDGET MONITORING FOR ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS (EVAWG)

BACKGROUND

Pacific Partnerships to End Violence against Women and Girls brings together governments, civil society organisations, communities and other partners to promote gender equality, prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG), and increase access to quality response services for survivors. The programme directly supports the implementation of the 2012 Pacific Leaders Gender Equality Declaration (PLGED), The Pacific Partnerships to End Violence against Women and Girls is primarily funded by the European Union with targeted support from the Australian Government and cost-sharing from UN Women.

The programme’s three outcome areas are coordinated with communities and national agencies through a partnership between the Pacific Community (SPC) Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT), Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (Forum Secretariat) and UN Women Fiji Multi- Country Office (MCO).

Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat outcome area three aims at empowering national and regional civil society organizations (CSOs) to advocate, monitor and report on regional institutions’ and governments’ commitment to enhance gender equality and prevention of violence against women and girls. This capacity building initiative will be valuable for government specifically the women’s office in tracking and assessing budgets for gender equality.

The key objective of this project is to design CSO-led accountability mechanisms for commitments around gender equality at country and regional level. PIFS is facilitating the effective and systematic participation of Non-State Actors in monitoring the implementation of national and regional commitments on gender equality. To ensure full implementation of existing commitments to ending violence against women and girls, the PIFS Non-State Actor/ civil society coalitions and governments will be provided an opportunity to enhance and strengthen their capacity and partnerships in policy and budget monitoring, gender responsive budgeting, reporting, advocacy related to ending violence against women and girls.

PIFS is seeking the services of an International consultant to develop tailored and contextualised the capacity building programme on policy and budget monitoring, specific to ending violence against women and girls (EVAWG) for both civil society and governments.

SCOPE OF WORK

The consultant will carry out the responsibilities and tasks as set out under the Terms of Reference (TOR) document which can be downloaded from www.tenders.net/forumsec.

HOW TO APPLY

Submissions should be titled:

REQUEST FOR TENDER
CONSULTANCY - DESIGN AND DELIVERY OF NSA CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM 2020 - POLICY AND GENDER RESPONSIVE BUDGET MONITORING FOR ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS (EVAWG)

Method of Submissions:

Submissions must be forwarded in PDF format following the instructions at www.tenders.net/forumsec
Note: Tenders must be submitted with clear labelling of the technical offer and the financial offer. The Technical Offer documents must be saved and submitted clearly labelled “A. Technical Offer”. Financial Offer documents must be saved and submitted clearly labelled “B. Financial Offer”.

The electronically submitted documents should be converted to the PDF format.

Deadline for Submissions:

Submissions need to reach the Secretariat by 5pm (Fiji Time) Monday 13 January 2020.
Late or incomplete tenders will not be considered.

Questions and Answers

All queries or request for information must be submitted via the Question and Answer Forum at www.tenders.net/forumsec . Tenderers may submit questions in writing to the mentioned Question and Answer Forum before the stated “deadline for requesting clarifications Monday 6th January 2020. The Secretariat has no obligation to provide clarification after this date.

Note: The Secretariat will not be responsible for non-receipt/non-delivery of the Bid documents due to any reason whatsoever.
Any complaints regarding the Secretariat’s tender must be directed to the following email: Tender.Complaints@forumsec.org. This email address will forward your complaint to a person that is independent and removed from the tender process. Complaints must be well founded and should not be used as a mechanism for notifying displeasure with the outcome of a tender award.

Further information on making a complaint can be found on the Policies & Information page at http://tenders.forumsec.org.

In the event that further information is required by the Secretariat in relation to the tender for consultancy, the Secretariat reserves the right to seek the required information without the need for calling for re-submission of proposals.