Request for Proposals - Aurat Foundation

Management, 3) Gender sensitization and women friendly laws. The trainings/workshops will be
designed with an objective to introduce, improve and enhance GEP sub-grantees understanding of
key principles of Project Cycle Management (PCM) and Financial Management (FM) concepts as
well as enhance their awareness and knowledge of new legislation in the context of women. This
will enable the sub grantees in taking an initiative to incorporate these laws in their respective
human resource policies. The learning interventions propose to address the above modules in
general and will particularly focus on GEP specific project management including financial
management.
More specifically, this grant aims to improve the capacity of grant recipients in:
Understanding all aspects of Project Management Cycle and Financial Management;
Enabling grant recipients to improve their efficiency in their day to day management of
project activities; beginning from project identification including monitoring, evaluation,
reporting to final assessment when the project ends. Similarly, enabling the grant
recipients to manage and fulfill their respective financial management ensuring efficiency
under the GEP project grants in particular and that of others in general;
Develop Project Reporting System; ensuring timely systems implementation monitoring
and evaluation of project activities;
Develop Project Finance Procedures; ensuring a viable and transparent use of GEP subgrants.
Reporting and documentation of project activities in line with GEP requirements on
agreed formats and agreed report submission timeline;
Understand and integrate women friendly laws in their human resource policies and
advocate organizational staff accordingly.
Key strategies to be followed by the awardees for implementing grant (are not limited to) may
include:
Design and conduct training workshops across four provinces including Gilgit Baltistan
(GB) and AJK at central locations
Ensure workshop participants to be GEP grantees with a view to develop their capacity
and knowledge in PCM, FM and women friendly laws
Encompass local environment context while designing and delivering training workshops
Incorporate an interactive and integrated learning approach (including use of
presentations, group exercises, individual activities, brainstorming, experience sharing and
other methods) to retain participants engagement and interest ensuring continued
participants’ learning
Keep Urdu primarily as a medium of instruction , along with local languages, especially
Sindhi, where necessary
Develop an effective learning intervention assessment tool to monitor and measure the
efficacy of each learning event
The pre assessment of workshop participants must be carried out at a reasonable time to
gather participant information prior to the event
Carry out participant feedback to enable immediate appraisal of the learning intervention
Suggested time period: 12 months
Minimum suggested outputs:
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