Call for proposals
Ensuring the rights of women and girls; Building the capacity of community organizations to reduce gender based violence and mitigate the impacts of HIV among women from key populations in South Africa
UNAIDS invites proposals from duly registered NGOs, NPOs, CBOs, and FBOs which are implementing programmatic interventions to address Gender Based Violence and HIV targeting women from key populations at community level.
1. Background and purpose
There is a strong association between intimate partner violence, male controlling behaviour and HIV risk in high prevalence settings. Worryingly DHS data shows that 20-30% of women report IPV in high prevalence settings in Africa in the past 12 months. In many cases the figures are higher for young women aged 15-24. Additionally, women living with HIV are more likely to experience violence at the hands or partners or through the health services in the form of forced and coherence sterilization.
The combined epidemic of violence and HIV among women and girls is a manifestation of gross gender inequality and unequal power relations.
Despite significant declines in new infections and progress in curbing the epidemic, women and girls in high prevalence settings continue to be the most vulnerable and are being left behind, and women and girls from key populations are even more vulnerable. Of the 380,000 new infections globally in young women aged 15-24, 61% of them were in Eastern and Southern Africa.
In 2013 the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS collated and summarised the available evidence on what works to prevent violence against women (VAW) and HIV and introduced 16 programming ideas on interventions to address the intersection of violence against women and HIV.
Despite the growing body of evidence on linkages between HIV and GBV and effective responses there remains limited practical programmatic guidance on how to integrate and operationalise this evidence either programmatically or within national policies. In addition, there remain significant gaps and weakness in the evidence base.
In response, UNAIDS has partnered with Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), Salamander Trust, AIDS Legal Network, the Athena Network and Project Empower as research institutions to support the development of an implementation framework that seeks to respond to the gap in available guidance on how to integrate and operationalise available evidence programmatically, specifically in the context of VAW/G.
The selected project will form part of a group of CBO/NGOs and research partners in 6 countries, South Africa being one of them, to implement their project under this common platform. The selected project will work with a research partner to develop a strong M&E framework and facilitate an evidence based approach of the project implementation to ensure that the project outcomes can contribute to the overall evidence base on the linkages between HIV and GBV.
Reducing violence is a central commitment of the global HIV response and is clearly articulated in the new UNAIDS Strategy (2016-2021). UNAIDS is committed to support the implementation and documentation of strategies addressing gender based violence and HIV at community level and raise the awareness politically on their linkages.
2. 7 – 10 Paged proposals should be completed in the required content format:
Background
Justification
Overview
Project implementation approach
Description of activities
Risk management
Coordination
monitoring and evaluation
Detailed budget
3. Only proposals with the following additional documents will be considered:
Work plan for 6 months implementation
List of key deliverables
Monitoring and evaluation plan
Completed full proposals should be emailed to ntulit@unaids.org
The submission deadline is 9 December 2015.
No late submissions will be accepted after the closing date