WPHF - Women´s Peace and Humanitarian Fund -Technical Assistance



Contract partner: UN WOMEN - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Country: Afrika, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 486.820,00 Project start: 01.10.2022 End: 31.12.2025

Short Description:

Overall goal


The project’s objective is to provide the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund’s (WPHF) programme in Africa and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region with the necessary expertise and resources for effective coordination and implementation of the WPHF regular funding cycle as well as contribution to global processes such as Beijing +25 and UNSCR1325+20 through the recruitment of an expert for two years.


Expected results


- The WPHF Regular Funding Cycle in Africa and the MENA region is well coordinated, the overall programme portfolio development is implemented according to WPHF`s priorities;

- Coordination with UN Country Offices and other stakeholders is guided and facilitated, potential problems are raised and solutions suggested;

- Monitoring and support on reporting on the WPHF Regular Funding is assured, all necessary information on programmes and projects are gathered and compiled from planning to the evaluation stage;

- Partnerships with civil society and key stakeholders such as governments, UN entities, women´s movements and donor community are built; substantive input to WPHF`s #1000WomenLeaders Campaign is provided.

- Development of resource mobilization strategies is supported.

- Advocacy for knowledge building, management and communication is facilitated, including input for the WPHF peer exchange programme.


Target group / Beneficiaries


The expert will support WPHF grantees in Sub-Sahara Africa and MENA region.

The number of direct beneficiaries is approximately 200 projects supporting local civil society organizations, indirect beneficiaries is estimated at 700,000 women and girls.

Geographic focus of the future portfolio will be countries in Sub-Sahara (potentially 11 countries, including ADA focus countries such as Uganda and Ethiopia) and about 5 countries in the MENA region.


Activities


- Coordination of activities for timely and quality implementation for the portfolio (set workplans, timelines, budgets)

- Support of the launch for calls for proposals

- Review of project proposals by applicants

- Monitoring of selected projects and conducting field missions

- Communications on grantees’ results

- Capacity building for grantees;

- Drafting policy and programmatic papers for the Fund

- Contribution to meetings, report and papers from the WPHF Secretariat

- Regular coordination with partners and stakeholders

- Continued resource mobilization for WPHF

- Circulation of enhanced best practices and lessons learned documentation


Context


The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is looking for an expert to support the Fund in Sub-Sahara Africa and the MENA region, in the context of both the 20th anniversary of UNSCR1325, and of the significant growth that it is currently experiencing on the continent.

WPHF is a partnership between the UN, member states and civil society which aims to support women’s meaningful participation in peace and security and humanitarian contexts. Since it was launched in 2016, the WPHF has been supporting 450 civil society organizations working in 26 countries. By 2022, the WPHF had a portfolio of USD 90 Mio, out of which only in 2021 USD 37,2 Mio. ADA supported WPHF activities in the past with a total of EUR 6,85 Mio (Iraq, Uganda, Rapid Response Window). Further support to the WPHF fund amounting to EUR 8 Mio for 4 years is envisaged (2880-00/2022). Technical assistance was supported from 2020-2022 (2757-01/2019).

project number 2880-01/2022
source of funding OEZA
sector Staatsführung & Zivilgesellschaft, allgemein
tied
modality Other technical assistance
marker Gender: 2, Democracy: 2
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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