Guidance

Intersectional approaches to conflict programming: terms of reference

Published 21 May 2021

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Conflict, Stability and Security Fund gender, peace and security: calls for bids 2021 to 2022 now closed

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Background

The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) is seeking bids for projects which will seek to pilot and build the evidence base for intersectional inclusion approaches to conflict programming.

The CSSF is a cross-government fund which supports and delivers activity to tackle instability and to prevent conflicts that threaten UK interests delivering against national security and UK Aid objectives. The CSSF works to many areas including the UK National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security 2018-2022.

The purpose of the WPS agenda is to reduce the disproportionate impact of conflict on women and girls and champion the crucial role women can play in humanitarian action, conflict prevention and resolution. This includes ensuring the needs of women, girls and marginalised people are at forefront of conflict responses.

The CSSF Gender, Peace and Security (GPS) works to support the CSSF deliver against UK objectives on Women, Peace and Security objectives. In addition to the UK NAP on WPS, this portfolio works in line with the Strategic Vision for Gender Equality, the Disability Inclusion Strategy and the Government Equality Office Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) Action Plan which commits the UK to improve the lives of LGBT+ people on a global scale.

The GPS portfolio offers UK funding and support towards activities that deliver towards the strategic outcomes of these policies to ensure UK work on conflict and security issues are inclusive and minimise drivers of conflict. In order to deliver against these strategic outcomes, we are looking to further develop conflict-sensitive programming responses with a focus on intersectional inclusion to ensure that the needs and rights of marginalised people are integrated into programmes and address the distinct barriers faced by marginalised people with overlapping identities.

Focus areas

CSSF programmes need to consider the impact of activities on groups which fall under protected characteristics as defined in the Equality Act 2010. The Public Sector Equality Duty requires public sector programme to protect and advance people who share any of nine protected characteristics (sex, age, disability status, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, pregnancy/maternity, marriage and civil partnership, and gender reassignment).

In addition to this, CSSF programmes should be able to monitor both how benefits are distributed among different groups, as well as any unintended or adverse consequences.

The objective of this work is to pilot and/or test approaches to designing and monitoring CSSF conflict-sensitive programmes, with a particular focus on the inclusion of people facing intersectional discrimination on the grounds of sex, age, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity. This should entail:

  1. Working in close collaboration with civil society organisations and local partners and networks to identify barriers faced by marginalised people, this can include but is not limited to partnership with Organisations of People with Disabilities, LGBT+ rights groups and Women’s’ Rights Organisations

  2. Developing and piloting recommendations on potential modalities for mainstreaming intersectional inclusion approaches in programming in conflict and fragile affected states

For the purpose of this funding, project proposals should focus on the following areas of conflict-programming:

Community security

People focussed approaches to mitigating and tackling drivers of insecurity. Objectives of this approach includes providing opportunities for people to identify security risks and concerns within their community, develop and implement an appropriate response that considers the community as a whole.

Community resilience building

Public are empowered to harness local resources and expertise to help themselves and their communities to prepare, respond and recover from disruptive challenges, and adapt to long term social changes to ensure their future prosperity and resilience. Building resilient communities that enables the public to identify risks, develop and implement responses that mitigate against the identified risks in an effective and timely manner.

Peacebuilding

Supporting the meaningful inclusion of marginalised groups in peace-building activities, through the identification of barriers and trailing of inclusive approaches towards peacebuilding.

Bids should look to focus on one or two countries. Priority geographies include:

  • Afghanistan
  • Myanmar
  • Iraq
  • Libya
  • Nigeria
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Syria

Bids should look to demonstrate:

  • use of evidence and expertise on inclusive programming, including consideration of how to engage with community members during set-up and implementation
  • strong understanding of how to amplify the voices of people who are marginalized due to intersectional discrimination, for example, women and girls with disabilities, or young gay men
  • consideration of how to engage with local civil society organisations, including but not limited those working on disability rights, women’s rights and LGBT+ rights
  • methods of carrying out intersectional analysis to identify barriers faced by marginalised people

Project budget

Our budget for this work is £250,000, proposals should not exceed this amount singularly or collectively. Please note that grants will be provided in GBP. The funding pot is 100% ODA, all projects should meet the OECD guidelines for ODA eligibility.

Assessment

Bids received will be assessed against the following criteria:

  • strategic fit and expected project scope against the objectives outlined stated in the section above
  • value for money against the 4 E’s of economy, efficiency, effectiveness and equity
  • risk management including against social safeguards and sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment
  • clear monitoring and evaluation procedures
  • expert knowledge on gender, conflict and issues around tackling stigma, violence and discrimination against women, girls, people with disabilities and LGBT+ people, protecting the roll-back of rights and advancing equality and participation outcomes
  • capacity to take on such projects and deliver them within 9 months and deliver proposed objectives, outcomes and outputs - Projects should aim to start in July 2021 and aim to be completed by 31 March 2022
  • experience of working overseas with and in fragile and conflict affected countries

How to bid

Please complete the ‘Project Proposal Form’ and ‘Activity Based Budget’ and submit these documents to the CSSFGender.PeaceSecurity@fcdo.gov.uk by 23:59 (BST) on the 10 June. The title of the email should include “Intersectional approaches to conflict programming”.

Key documents

Project proposal form

Activity Based Budget

Contact

Please send queries to CSSFGender.PeaceSecurity@fcdo.gov.uk.

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