Deadline: 30-Oct-2024

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is accepting proposals to empower rural women by strengthening their role in agriculture, particularly in the beekeeping sector.

Objectives

• The program focuses on three main results:
  • Role of Rural Women: Promote the contribution of rural women to food security, nutrition and the fight against climate change.
  • Institutional Strengthening: Improve the institutional framework for an effective gender response, highlighting women’s leadership as agents of peace and development.
  • Income Generating Activities: Increase economic activities by supporting beekeeping as a path to economic empowerment.

Priorities

• The six priority areas are:
  • Develop women’s voice, leadership and participation.
  • Eliminate violence against women and girls.
  • Strengthen the implementation of the women’s peace and security agenda.
  • Increase the economic autonomy of women.
  • Make gender equality priorities central to national plans, budgets and statistics, local and sectoral.
  • Implement global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and women’s empowerment, thereby laying the foundation for action by governments and other stakeholders at all levels.

Funding Information

• 150,000.00 -170,000.00 USD

Targets

• The program targets women’s associations in the Sud, Nippes and Grande Anse departments who are interested in beekeeping and seeking to strengthen their capacities in this area.

Expected Results

• Strengthening the beekeeping skills of 10 women’s associations.
• Development of the beekeeping value chain within these associations.
• Empowerment of association members through the production and sale of honey and derived products.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible for this call for proposals, the partner must:
  • Not be an institution listed by the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee;
  • Be a legal entity authorized to operate in Haiti;
  • Have no profit motive;
  • Have a valid authorization to work in Haiti issued by a competent Haitian institution;
  • Provide proof of programming experience in the intervention area over the last 3 years;
  • Being directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action and not acting as an organization intermediate;
  • Provide proof of management experience of at least 60% of the amount requested.

For more information, visit UNDP.