GENDER EQUITY PROGRAM (GEP) Request for ... - Aurat Foundation

number of learning interventions focusing on: 1) Project Cycle Management, 2) FinancialManagement, 3) Gender sensitization and women friendly laws. The trainings/workshops will bedesigned with an objective to introduce, improve and enhance GEP sub-grantees understanding ofkey principles of Project Cycle Management (PCM) and Financial Management (FM) concepts aswell as enhance their awareness and knowledge of new legislation in the context of women. Thiswill enable the sub grantees in taking an initiative to incorporate these laws in their respectivehuman resource policies. The learning interventions propose to address the above modules ingeneral and will particularly focus on GEP specific project management including financialmanagement.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 ofproject activities; beginning from project identification including monitoring, evaluation,reporting to final assessment when the project ends. Similarly, enabling the grantrecipients to manage and fulfill their respective financial management ensuring efficiencyunder the GEP project grants in particular and that of others in general;• Develop Project Reporting System; ensuring timely systems implementation monitoringand 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 onagreed formats and agreed report submission timeline;• Understand and integrate women friendly laws in their human resource policies andadvocate organizational staff accordingly.Key strategies to be followed by the awardees for implementing grant (are not limited to) mayinclude:• 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 capacityand 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 ofpresentations, group exercises, individual activities, brainstorming, experience sharing andother methods) to retain participants engagement and interest ensuring continuedparticipants’ learning• Keep Urdu primarily as a medium of instruction , along with local languages, especiallySindhi, where necessary• Develop an effective learning intervention assessment tool to monitor and measure theefficacy of each learning event• The pre assessment of workshop participants must be carried out at a reasonable time togather participant information prior to the event• Carry out participant feedback to enable immediate appraisal of the learning interventionSuggested time period: 12 months16