Expert to conduct a gender audit for one municipality

Project Synopsis

This project is funded by the U.S. Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) for the purpose of strengthening the relationship between existing civil society organizations and elected officials to increase government accountability and impact reform on gender related issues.

Project Objective

The project's overall objective is to promote universal parental leave and progressive childcare policies among Lebanese working parents as an entry point to achieving greater gender equality in Lebanon

This request for proposal responds to the first objective of the project, formulated as follows: Improved foundation for an enabling legal environment that promotes gender equality in parental leave policies

Scope of Required Services

Perform a gender audit to one municipality to assess the institutionalization of gender equality at a local level. Collaborate with one municipality to enable the legal environment for gender equality on a local level. This collaboration will imply performing a gender audit to assess the institutionalization of gender equality in the municipality’s policies, programs, projects and/or provision of services, structures, proceedings, budgets, office practices and activities in support of gender mainstreaming at the community level. It will also include promoting gender equality in parental leave and childcare policies at a local level.

The gender audit in the International Labor Organization (ILO) manual is defined as the following. “The gender audit should consider whether internal practices and related support systems for gender mainstreaming are effective and reinforces each other, monitors and assesses the relative progress made in gender mainstreaming, establishes a baseline for the audited municipality, identifies critical gaps and challenges, recommends ways of addressing them and suggests new and more effective strategies and documents good practices towards the achievement of gender equality. The gender audit will be performed using the ILO methodology detailed in the ILO manual.

Before performing the gender audit, the expert will prepare the criteria for choosing the municipality to be audited. The expert will narrow down the options for the municipality and will choose one based on the coordination with the AiW. The municipality chosen needs to be outside of Beirut.

How to apply

Deadline for Submission and Schedule

Proposals, as per set requirements henceforth, are required no later than 17 September 2020, 15:00hrs (Beirut time).

When proposals are due by email, the system-generated timestamp will be considered the time of submission.

Proposals need to be sent to [email protected] while specifying the title of the call in the subject line.

Proposal Requirements, Submission & Language

The offeror is expected to present two proposals separately, a technical one, and a distinct financial one (each proposal through its separate submission). The technical proposal must not contain any budgetary or financial information. The financial proposal must be put on official letterhead of the offeror and duly signed and stamped. The financial proposal must include all information confirming the eligibility of the offeror including the Ministry of Finance Tax Number, VAT Number, registration number and date and any other documents listed under B3 as applicable. The financial proposal must clearly show costs distinctly and clearly related to Taxes, VAT, overheads, etc.

For more information and details for submission, please check the attached request for proposals. 

منتهية الصلاحية
آخر مدة للتقديم
الخميس, 17. سبتمبر 2020
نوع الدعوة
دعوة لتقديم مقترحات
قطاع(ات) التدخل:
المناصرة والتوعية, حقوق الإنسان والحماية, القانون والشؤون القانونية, حالة وقضايا النساء
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