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Call for Proposals

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Background
WoW: Women Empowerment for Wellbeing (WoW) was launched in Armenia in November 2023 on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The project objective is to strengthen the rights, resources, and representation of marginalised, displaced and conflict-affected women in Armenia.

It specifically includes:
- Improvement of gender-responsive social services​
- Increasing employment and income generation opportunities
- Strengthening civil society in the field of women empowerment

Context
It is widely acknowledged that war and armed conflicts cause profound distress and can cause or exacerbate mental health conditions. Although most people experiencing war traumas usually recover without help, an estimated 1 in 5 people will experience a mental health condition in the next 10 years. 

Following the recent escalation of the decades-long conflict in the region. The Government of the Republic of Armenia reported that since October 2023, 115,183 refugees, including 30,000 children, were displaced from Nagorno Karabakh. They have been recognized as refugees under the Temporary Protection regime of the Law on Refugees and Asylum (2008) of the Republic of Armenia. According to the latest available data, many of the newly displaced persons are vulnerable, including older people, women and children, pregnant women, people living with disabilities and people with chronic health conditions, as well as new-born. 52% are women and girls, 31% are children and 18% are elderly. About half of the refugee population are from the countryside. Temporary protection has been granted for a duration of one year, beginning October 28, 2023, with the possibility of extension based on the Government’s decision.

Staff members of state and non-state institutions have been engaged in the provision of immediate response measures to respond to the urgent needs of the displaced population. The provision of such support can have an impact on the staff work and their psychosocial well-being, team cooperation, and consequently the quality of activity implementation and/or service provision.

In the context of forced displacement cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) tend to increase and the response measures with this regard are being prioritized. All forms of GBV have tremendous physical, emotional, and social consequences for the survivors, who have the right to receive quality, compassionate care, and support that addresses the harmful consequences of violence in order to help them heal and recover.

It becomes therefore of paramount importance to strengthen the capacities of relevant staff rendering psychosocial support (PSS) services, and to provide adequate supervision and staff care for prevention of vicarious trauma, burnout, and other stress factors.

Objectives and results of the Component
The objective of the proposed measure is to enhance the capacities of staff members from both governmental and non-governmental institutions that work with displaced and vulnerable population in providing PSS services. The intervention shall also focus on strengthening and institutionalizing their staff care practices especially through the provision of adequate supervision at both group and individual levels throughout the assignment.

Target group: Staff members from both governmental and non-governmental institutions working with displaced and vulnerable population. Special focus shall be placed on the involvement of staff members of governmental institutions.

Because of the intervention, the quality of PSS services delivered to displaced and vulnerable populations by the capacitated organizations will be improved.
o ensure the intervention's effectiveness, the proposal shall include the monitoring and evaluation framework responding to the indicators below.

Indicators:
The proposal shall set target values for the indicators and clearly state the sources and methodology for estimating targets, monitoring approach during implementation, and verification upon completion of the project:
- 75 out of 100 employees of 7 governmental or non-governmental organizations, minimum 50% of them women, who participated in qualification measures, confirm an improvement of their competences for the demand-oriented provision of social services by means of one concrete example each
- 1 participatory developed concept for improved psychosocial support delivery is available for governmental and non-governmental organizations
- 25 of employees out of reached 7 governmental and non-governmental organizations that provide the new or revised gender-responsive services confirming with one specific example each that the services improve the well-being of the target group.

The outputs of the measure shall be the following, but not limited to these:
- enhancement of the capacity of the staff members to assess PSS needs of the displaced population and provide mental health and psychosocial support within the framework of PSS pyramid of interventions;
- facilitation of referrals up and down the layers of the PSS pyramid, ensuring a multi-layered and multi-sectoral approach to PSS;
- ensure the knowledge transfer of newly acquired capacities in PSS provision in the respective work environments;
- enhancement of capacity of the targeted organizations to structurally include staff care measures within their practice
- development of concepts and documents for improved PSS services (to be used by state and non-state institutions) which allows to improve capacities in this sector and replicate well-established methods and approaches.
The outcome of these results shall be improved PSS service delivery to the target group.

For all the indicators, the data shall be disaggregated by age, gender, displacement, and disability status.
The measure shall start latest in September 2024 and last maximum up to July 2026 (minimum 1 year duration).

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Application process:
The application process will cover the following steps:
Issue Call for proposals - 03 July, 2024
Deadline for submission of questions prior to information session - 11 July 2024
Information session - 15 July, 2024
Submission of Proposals - 22 July, 2024
Singing of contract and launch of the component - 10 September, 2024

The information session will be organised on 15 July 2024 for all interested organizations. The organizations may e-mail their questions until 11 July 2024. Answers to the questions will be provided at the information session. The information session will take place online on 15 July 2024 at 14:00-16:00hh, follow the link below:

Microsoft Teams
https://tinyurl.com/join-meeting-now

Meeting ID: 310 012 852 116
Passcode: 3EkpNK

Please, send your questions and confirmation on the participation in the session by 11 July 2024 to: anna.hovannisyan@giz.de

When submitting their proposals, applicants must follow all instructions, forms and specifications. Failure to submit an application package containing all the required information and documentation within the deadline specified may lead to the rejection of the proposal.

It is required to send the below-mentioned application package by email. The original documents will be required upon necessity.

It is strongly recommended to apply before the deadline to avoid any technical difficulties with submitting of the files.

The Call for Proposals should cover the following information by chapters:
- Information about an applicant organisation/organisations and experience with donor funded project implementation including extensive experience in (1) PSS and (2) staff care - both at individual level of experts as well as at institutional level, beneficiaries, donors and funding
- Overview of the proposed measures (objective, results, activities)
- Implementation strategy/methodology including timeframe of implementation steps.

The size of the Call for Proposals with the standard font Arial/11 should not exceed 6 pages.
The Call for Proposals must be submitted in electronic format to Karine Simonyan, Team Leader at: karine.simonyan@giz.de and at the same time in copy to Anna Hovhannisyan, Social Inclusion Specialist, anna.hovhannisyan@giz.de by 22 July 2024.

For any questions or clarifications please, contact Anna Hovhannisyan at: anna.hovhannisyan@giz.de

For the application package and other details regarding this Call, please see the below attached Call for Proposals File.

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ВЛОЖЕНИЯ:

Annex 1_Application Form.docx - Application Form Annex 2_Budget.xlsx - Budget Annex 3-Activity Plan_Gantt chart.xls - Activity Plan Annex 4_ Logical Framework.doc - Logical Framework Annex 5-List of implemented projects.docx - List of Implemented Projects PSS_Call for Proposal.docx - Call for Proposals