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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
Minimum suggested outputs:• Recruit a consultant with significant involvement of GEP capacity building unit totranslate GEP modules of PCM and FM into Urdu to further enhance the impact oftraining workshops• Consultant to develop a training module on gender sensitization and pro women lawstrainings in close coordination with the capacity building unit at GEP with the help of thematerial provided by GEP• Conduct 5 days training; focusing on 2 days on PCM, 2 days on FM and 1 day on womenfriendly laws at centrally located sites across four provinces of Pakistan includingGilgit/Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)• A total of approximately 180 participants trained on PCM/FM/gender sensitization andwomen friendly laws practices in 9 workshops. Each workshop to have a minimum of 20participants• Consolidated report of all 9 workshops with pictures, details of sessions, tabulatedevaluations and outcomes along with the pre and post training assessment andparticipants’ feedback analysis for all three modules• Monitoring and evaluation systems developed and approved for all workshops two weeksprior to the workshop• Training calendar, administrative and logistical arrangements of all workshops to befinalized and shared with grant holder a week before the planned workshop• Develop participants workshop feedback as well as a pre and post training evaluation toolin close coordination with the Capacity Building Unit of GEP• Develop an Impact Assessment Tool in close coordination with capacity building unit atGEP 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 finalreport with GEPWho should apply?NGOs, universities/academic institutions, firms and training institutions having a minimum offive years of relevant experience are encouraged to apply for this sub-grant.8. Innovative approaches to promoting women’s economic empowerment (ten sub-grantsup to $25,000 each)Sub-grant 230-239: NationwideTen ‘open ended’ sub-grants will be awarded to support initiatives that facilitate women’seconomic empowerment through innovative, sustainable and creative ways. These sub-grants arenot bound to specific geographical locations or outline defined activity/output expectations. Theinterested organizations are encouraged to submit applications that propose localized, contextspecific,innovative and sustainable solutions to women’s economic empowerment concerns intheir chosen areas of implementation. Successful applicants will be the ones able to demonstrateprior experience with the proposed initiative, and that this has been able to achieve demonstrablesustainable solutions to women’s economic empowerment concerns.17
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