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Inter-Ministerial Meeting
Inter-Ministerial Meeting – CEDAW Follow-Up
Women, Peace and Security in Pakistan - Towards Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
Security Council Resolution 1325 Meeting
Best Western, Islamabad
22/12/2008 More
CEDAW - Expert Group Meeting
Advancing Implementation of CEDAW in Pakistan – Expert Group Meeting
Crown Plaza, Blue Area, Islamabad 9:00am to 4:00pm
18/12/2008 More
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UNW-Pakistan Request for Proposal: “Implementing Women’s Voters Education Program in KP and Baluchistan”
Women Voters Education Programme
As part of UN Women’s mandate of promoting women’s groups and enhancing their capacity to effectively participate in electoral processes, UN Women Pakistan intends to establish and maintain close working partnerships with Six implementing partners during the current year under ECAP ( in collaboration with UNDP) through its “Governance and Political participation” Program in Pakistan. The financial assistance provided through this project will support CSOs in their initiatives as well as establishing forums for sharing information and joint collaborative support on programs/projects that promote women’s Political participation particularly as well informed voters.
Through this Project UNW would like to support ECP in its strategic goal under its five year strategic plan of achieving 63% voter turn-out in the next election. To achieve this it will have to direct considerable time and effort in engaging with citizens, but also by placing additional focus on engaging with and enabling women. The most challenging task in this regard would be to mobilize women particularly in those districts that have faced fragile security situation and are strictly governed by patriarchal culture and where strict “Purdha” is observed.
The Women Voter’s Education Program requires focused approach and aims at mobilizing women initially in 10 districts in KP and Baluchistan with low women turnout and women voters’ registration. The key results anticipated for the program includes; a)increased knowledge and information of local communities particularly women about voters procedures; increased women voters registration; increased women turn out as voters in upcoming elections; increased women’s engagement and participation in political parties. The project also aim at ensuring that the lessons learnt from the districts are not only shared with all key actors including ECP but also drawn on for pushing the agenda of legal reforms in national policies and plans with National Women Machinery(NWM) i.e. Women Parliamentary Caucus, Women Development Departments at provincial level and NCSW.
In order to achieve these results organizations should be able to demonstrate proven experience of running result based women political participation projects in said provinces with considerable out reach.
As part of UN Women’s mandate of promoting women’s groups and enhancing their capacity to effectively participate in electoral processes, UN Women Pakistan intends to establish and maintain close working partnerships with Six implementing partners during the current year under ECAP ( in collaboration with UNDP) through its “Governance and Political participation” Program in Pakistan. The financial assistance provided through this project will support CSOs in their initiatives as well as establishing forums for sharing information and joint collaborative support on programs/projects that promote women’s Political participation particularly as well informed voters.
Through this Project UNW would like to support ECP in its strategic goal under its five year strategic plan of achieving 63% voter turn-out in the next election. To achieve this it will have to direct considerable time and effort in engaging with citizens, but also by placing additional focus on engaging with and enabling women. The most challenging task in this regard would be to mobilize women particularly in those districts that have faced fragile security situation and are strictly governed by patriarchal culture and where strict “Purdha” is observed.
The Women Voter’s Education Program requires focused approach and aims at mobilizing women initially in 10 districts in KP and Baluchistan with low women turnout and women voters’ registration. The key results anticipated for the program includes; a)increased knowledge and information of local communities particularly women about voters procedures; increased women voters registration; increased women turn out as voters in upcoming elections; increased women’s engagement and participation in political parties. The project also aim at ensuring that the lessons learnt from the districts are not only shared with all key actors including ECP but also drawn on for pushing the agenda of legal reforms in national policies and plans with National Women Machinery(NWM) i.e. Women Parliamentary Caucus, Women Development Departments at provincial level and NCSW.
In order to achieve these results organizations should be able to demonstrate proven experience of running result based women political participation projects in said provinces with considerable out reach.
20/01/2012
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SSA Announcement UNWOMEN/PAK/2011/003 - International Consultant – Governance Programme
Organization : UNWOMEN
Duty Station : Islamabad, Pakistan
Duration : 1 Feb 2012 - 30 June 2012 ( 128 days)
Type of Contract : SSA – (Short Service Agreement)
Duty Station : Islamabad, Pakistan
Duration : 1 Feb 2012 - 30 June 2012 ( 128 days)
Type of Contract : SSA – (Short Service Agreement)
29/12/2011
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Terms of Reference: For Mid-term Review of Women and Peace Programme
The deadline for submission of proposals is COB 12:00 hrs Friday, 16th December 2011
28/11/2011
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(20/01/2012)TERMS OF REFERENCE I. The Major Contents of the Project: The major contents of the project under this RFP include: The call for proposal is meant to support initiatives related to the Women voters education at community/grass root level in the five districts of each province Khyber PakhtoonKhaw and Balochistan through the organization who have vast network and build the capacity of local...
(29/12/2011)Organization : UNWOMEN Duty Station : Islamabad, Pakistan Duration : 1 Feb 2012 - 30 June 2012 ( 128 days) Type of Contract : SSA – (Short Service Agreement) 1. Background and Purpose: UN WOMEN Pakistan is committed to provide technical support to Government of Pakistan in advancing the gender equality and women’s empowerment commitments made under; Convention on the Eliminati...
(28/11/2011)1. BACKGROUND Pakistan began with a legacy of violence, dislocation of millions of people and various other neighbourhood issues in 1947. Since then, it has faced several man-made and natural disasters and crises including earthquakes and floods on the one hand and internal ethnic, religious and political disputes as well as wars and unstable relations with surrounding neighbours on the ot...
(28/11/2011)Dear Sir/Madam, Subject: RFP for the ‘Pilot Survey of Disaster Affected Women & Children in 2011 Floods’. 1. You are requested to submit a proposal for the above referred RFP, as per enclosed Terms of Reference (TOR). 2. To enable you to submit a proposal, attached are: i. Instructions to Offerors …………… . (Annex I) ii. General Conditions of Contract……. .(Annex II) iii. Terms of...
(01/11/2011)1- Background Climate change (CC) is the defining human development issue of our generation. The 2007 Human Development report acknowledges that ‘climate change threatens to erode human freedoms and limit choices’. 65% of the world’s population is directly affected from the CC impacts. To understand CC it is very important to understand that 1) if people face climate change in similar condit...
(12/10/2011)1. Background UN Women is the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, formerly known as UNIFEM. The General Assembly voted unanimously on 2nd July 2010 to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide. The establishment of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – known as UN Women – is a re...
(06/10/2011)Starting from fall 2010, UN Women with a support of European Union has been implementing a cross-regional programme “Women Connect Across Conflicts: Building Accountability for Implementation of UN SCR 1325, 1820, 1888, 1889” that aims to enhance the capacity of Women’s human rights activists and gender equality advocates and their networks to effectively and meaningfully engage, influence, and...
(15/09/2011)BACKGROUND The previous Pakistan Population and Housing Census took place in 1998. The next comprehensive housing and population census will be conducted by the Government of Pakistan in early 2011. The Population Census Organisation (PCO), an attached department of the Statistics Division, is the main implementing organization for the preparation, actual data collection, analyses and dissem...
(08/09/2011)1. Background UN Women is the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, formerly known as UNIFEM. The General Assembly voted unanimously on 2nd July 2010 to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide. The establishment of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – known as UN Women – is a re...
(06/09/2011)MEDIA: Sony/Maxell DVD Spool with pouch TITLE COVER: 2 Color QUANTITY: 150,000 DELIVERY TIME: 3 weeks from the date of award of contract DELIVERY ADDRESS: UN WOMEN – Pakistan, Plot # 5 – 11, Diplomatic Enclave # 2, Sector G – 4, Islamabad, Pakistan PAYMENT TERMS:UN WOMEN - Pakistan will endeavour to ensure 100 % payment is made within 30 days after receipt of acknowledg...
