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Spotlight Initiative calls for proposals from qualified Civil Society Organizations (CSO) to deliver coordinated, high-quality, evidence-based, coordinated services to women and girls’ survivors of VAWG and address family violence in select communities.
This Call for Proposals falls under Pillar 4 – Delivery of Quality, Essential Services which seeks to ensure that national and sub-national systems and institutions deliver evidence-based programmes and services that prevent and respond to violence against women and girls within the family.
CSOs, including those representing youth and groups facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, are crucial actors that drive progress on efforts to end family violence at the community level. They also provide critical support in implementing the plans created by national and sub-national government institutions. This initiative therefore seeks to utilise the expertise of qualified CSOs to buttress the work of national and sub-national institutions.
In September 2017, the EU and the UN launched an ambitious partnership to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls worldwide. The Spotlight Initiative (SI) aims at mobilizing commitment of political leaders and contributing to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Initiative aims at ending all forms of violence against women and girls, targeting those that are most prevalent and contribute to gender inequality across the world. The SI will deploy targeted, large-scale investments in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Pacific and the Caribbean, aimed at achieving significant improvements in the lives of women and girls. Jamaica is one of the countries in the Caribbean to benefit from this transformative initiative. The SI in Jamaica is national in scope and targeted intervention will focus on the following four parishes: The Kingston Metropolitan Area (Kingston and St. Andrew), St. Thomas, Clarendon, and Westmoreland. It will address three key priority areas within the overall focus on Family Violence against women and girls: 1) Child Sexual Abuse, 2) Intimate Partner Violence and 3) Discrimination against vulnerable groups. The approach will be guided by the ecological theory that underpins the connections between family and society. The ecological model is seen as the best framework within which to address the causes, consequences, and response to family violence in Jamaica. The approach will also be guided by the core principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – Leaving No One Behind and underpinned by an intersectional approach that will ensure interventions address key social factors such as socio-economic status, age, sexual orientation, health, educational and disabilities status.
Please email procurement.jamaica@undp.org outlining your expression of interest and for further information.