UN Women India is implementing a programme titled “COVID-19 and ensuring women’s health, wellness, and safety in rural spaces in the tea sector in Assam” to forge and strengthen multi-sectoral partnerships in Assam, India.

The programme aims to effectively respond to the COVID-19 and pandemic through targeted interventions, mitigate the impacts of the pandemic, and enhance women workers’ health, wellness, and safety in the tea sector.

UN Women East and Southern Africa seeks to partner with a civil society organization, institution, or network to conduct research on the extent to and ways that ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) investments in the region have influenced national commitments and financing for ending VAWG.

The research will contribute to evidence of how financial investments in ending VAWG in the region can facilitate State accountability to end VAWG.

UN Women Nigeria invites interested organizations to apply as partners for implementing gender-responsive legal frameworks/policies, enhancing the capacity of political parties and electoral bodies to develop gender-responsive policies that promote gender balance in political leadership positions, and strengthening the capacity of young women to participate in political activities.

The implementing partner will strengthen capacity of networks, institutions, electoral bodies to better prevent and respond to violence against women in politics during elections.

UN Women will collaborate with a selected responsible party with a strong network of civil society organizations and grassroots organizations to support electoral processes, voters’ education and sensitization, and electoral management bodies, particularly the Independent National Electoral Commission, security agents involved in elections, and political parties in the Ekiti gubernatorial elections. The engagement will be for five weeks only.