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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: 16
Recruit a consultant with significant involvement of GEP capacity building unit to translate GEP modules of PCM and FM into Urdu to further enhance the impact of training workshops Consultant to develop a training module on gender sensitization and pro women laws trainings in close coordination with the capacity building unit at GEP with the help of the material provided by GEP Conduct 5 days training; focusing on 2 days on PCM, 2 days on FM and 1 day on women friendly laws at centrally located sites across four provinces of Pakistan including Gilgit/Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) A total of approximately 180 participants trained on PCM/FM/gender sensitization and women friendly laws practices in 9 workshops. Each workshop to have a minimum of 20 participants Consolidated report of all 9 workshops with pictures, details of sessions, tabulated evaluations and outcomes along with the pre and post training assessment and participants’ feedback analysis for all three modules Monitoring and evaluation systems developed and approved for all workshops two weeks prior to the workshop Training calendar, administrative and logistical arrangements of all workshops to be finalized and shared with grant holder a week before the planned workshop Develop participants workshop feedback as well as a pre and post training evaluation tool in close coordination with the Capacity Building Unit of GEP Develop an Impact Assessment Tool in close coordination with capacity building unit at GEP to ensure quality and impact of all learning events, adhering to a timelines. Conduct detailed post training impact assessment and share the draft as well as the final report with GEP Who should apply NGOs, universities/academic institutions, firms and training institutions having a minimum of five years of relevant experience are encouraged to apply for this sub-grant. 8. Innovative approaches to promoting women’s economic empowerment (ten sub-grants up to $25,000 each) Sub-grant 230-239: Nationwide Ten ‘open ended’ sub-grants will be awarded to support initiatives that facilitate women’s economic empowerment through innovative, sustainable and creative ways. These sub-grants are not bound to specific geographical locations or outline defined activity/output expectations. The interested organizations are encouraged to submit applications that propose localized, contextspecific, innovative and sustainable solutions to women’s economic empowerment concerns in their chosen areas of implementation. Successful applicants will be the ones able to demonstrate prior experience with the proposed initiative, and that this has been able to achieve demonstrable sustainable solutions to women’s economic empowerment concerns. The Gender Equity Program supports the understanding that women’s economic empowerment will be achieved by expanding women’s economic opportunity, strengthening their legal status 17
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