Financial and Capacity Assessment

Terms of Reference for Financial and Capacity Assessment Consultancy   

EuropeAid/154792/DH/ACT/Multi 

GENERAL INFORMATION 

Services/Work Description  Financial and Capacity Assessment

Project Title  Nassej: Connecting Voices and Actions Together to End Violence Against Women and Girls in the MENA Region

Duty Station East Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza

Type of the contract  Consultancy

Duration  2 months

Expected Start Date 15th December 2021

Expected End Date 28th February 2022

BACKGROUND

Oxfam is an international confederation counting 20 organizations working together with partners and local communities in more than 90 countries. Oxfam has been working in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel (OPTI) since the 1950s, a country office was established in Jerusalem in the 1980s. Oxfam mainly works in the most vulnerable communities, in Gaza, East Jerusalem, and Area C.

Naseej is a regional project that connects women voices and actions to end violence against women in the MENA region. The project will tackle Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in conflict and occupation affected areas, through channeling financial support to women rights and civil society organizations and community based organizations (WROs, CSOs, and CBOs) to prevent and respond to SGBV. This will be done in parallel with technical and capacity building support to strengthen capacities in these organizations to support their work. in conflict and occupation affected areas.

The project’s overall objective/Impact is to contribute to more gender-equitable societies in Iraq, Yemen, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) in which women and girls live free from violence across all spheres of life. The Specific objective of the project is to support women's rights civil society organizations (WROs) in the target countries to effectively prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) during conflict

The Intermediate Outcomes of the project are: 1) partner WROs show improved organizational capacity to function more independently and effectively to deliver prevention, response, and advocacy programs/initiatives on ending SGBV, 2) SGBV is less socially acceptable in targeted communities, including among men and boys, and 3) Oxfam and WRO partners more effectively influence national and

international policy and decision makers on SGBV policy and legislation and international humanitarian law (IHL) obligation

Submission process 

Interested consultants (firms or group of consultants) should submit letter of interest, technical proposal, and financial offer no later than the December 10, 2021, to the attention of OPT–Jerusalem Procurement [email protected] 

All docs are requested in English language. 

For those who are interested, kindly download the following:  Tender Document