Empowering women through democratic oppertunities

Close Window Print This Page Expand All Collapse All Empowering women through democratic oppertunities General Information Opportunity Record Type UNDEF Proposal Year of Application / Round R11 2016 Created By Portal User English, 06/12/2016 04:56 Application Stage Submitted Close Date 08/12/2016 Proposal Information Proposal Empowering women through democratic oppertunities Score 40 Project Location Local Pakistan Proposal Validity Valid Region Asia and Pacific Project Focus (KM) Womens Rights and Empowerment / Gender Equality Requested Grant Amount $230,287 Proposal Status Long listed Receipt # 37905_PAK 1. APPLICANT INFORMATION Organization Water Environment and Sanitation Society Type of Applicant Civil Society or Non Governmental Organisation Organization Acronym WESS First Time or Prior Applicant First Time Applicant Address 112 A 25th Lane Jinnah Town Quetta, Quetta, Balochistan 87300 Pakistan Annual Expenditure $1,000,000 $3,000,000 Website/Social Media Page(s) http://www.wess.org.pk Number of Staff 121 Year of Legal Constitution 1999 Organization Vision/Experience Organization's Vision A healthy and prosperous society where resources are equitably managed and sustained Strategic priroties: No discrimination on the basis of religion, caste, creed, color, ethnicity, language or gender, Peace and tolerance as prerequisites social change; Respecting diversity;promoting democratic values;zero tolerance for corruption; accountability; Responsive to community needs and quality conscious in all aspects of our work; Striving to protect the environment WESS in next 5 years: A leading organization inspiring people for self driven advocacy on effective policy implementation for sustainable development and democratic culture. https://na25.salesforce.com/0063100000f6axe/p?returl=/0063100000f6axe 1/12

Prior Experience of Your Organization 1 Citizens Voice project by USAID effective legislation on accountability of executive 2 Legislative Governance project by UDAID for reforms in rule and procedure of Balochistan assembly 3 Registration of 2000 women with NADRA 4 Training of elected representative Nazims and local government cabinet 5 Peace and Human Rights Programme by EC EIDHR for minority rights. WESS was established in 1999. Mobilization, capacity building and advocacy activities in different sectors like strengthening democracy, governance, health, Child rights, Education, Community Development, Alternate energy Environment,Empowerment of marginalized communities Prior Experience with the UN Affiliation Other Grants WESS has successfully implemented 30 projects with UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, IUCN, UNILO, WWF, WHO and UNDP. 80% projects were development and 20% were humanitarian projects. Currently WESS is partner of UNICEF and UNHCR, working on WASH, Community Empowerment,Youth and women empowerment among other activities. WESS is part of different level forums and networks, these include IUCN, HRDN, WES Net UNICEF and child Protection and Empowerment of Adolescents Network (Coordinated by UNICEF) 1 UNICEF (Mr. Dr Masood) 2 UNHCR (Mr. Jalal Khan) 3 WFP (Syed Ashraf) 4 IUCN (Faiz Kakar) 5 Concern Worldwide (Abdul Rahim) 6 GIZ (Mr. Babrak Kasi) 7 USAID Citizen Voice (Tahir Hayat) 8 USAID Small Grant (Razaq Buzdar) 9 TVO (Jalil Agha) 10 CI (Hamid) Organization Contacts Head of Organization Prefix Mr. Key Contact Prefix Mr. of Head of Organization Pervez Iqbal of Key Contact naseebullah@wess.org.pk Title of Head Chief Executive Title of Key Contact Manager Programme and Operations Phone of Head 923337805354 Phone of Key Contact 923008384573 Email of Head pervez@wess.org.pk Email of Key Contact naseebullah@wess.org.pk 2. PROJECT PROPOSAL INFORMATION Project Title Project Scale Country (if local): Please specify which countries Empowering women through democratic oppertunities Local (Country) Pakistan NA Geographical Area (Regional) Select Specific Countries (Regional) Project Summary The proposed project will be aimed to create more forums and opportunities that enable women actively participate in the democratic process and empowered them towards enhanced participation in electoral process. 10 women groups will be formed and organized with their training's on leadership skills. Voter educations for 500 women will be organized. Media campaigns will also be conducted with dissemination of 1000 IEC material on same topic. For CNIC registration meetings and campaigns will be launched with ECP and NADRA to register women as voter. A charter of demand will be presented to legislators regarding women enhanced seats in assemblies. 175 women each will be prepared to contest in national elections, provincial and local government elections. Meetings with Women Caucus members will be conducted to play their role for enhanced participation of women. Dialogues with political parties will be conducted for enhanced seats in party elections. Project Theme https://na25.salesforce.com/0063100000f6axe/p?returl=/0063100000f6axe 2/12

Participation's Right and Democratic Dialogue Previous Initiatives Innovation Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable Development Goals: Explain Other projects of WESS were covering one or two themes, whereas this project is covering different aspects of women empowerment. project is different from different aspects i.e. advocacy and interaction with line department like ECP and NADRA, effective involvement of Media, women voter registration and CNIC, formulation of charter of demand, interaction with women Caucus, inspiring minority women to contest in elections, dialogues with political parties for increase women seats are new ideas. Women empowerment issues will be tackled with some innovative ideas likewise aspiring minority women to contest in coming election. So far in Balochistan work on this side is very negligible. Minority seats are very less especilly minority and disable women will be focused to compete in election. Goal 5: Gender Equality The SDGs 5 stresses on women empowerment and gender equality. In this regard the project is focusing women equality and interventions are design to significantly contribute to the women equality aspect. The project is covering this aspect by advocating and informing legislator and legislature to play due role for equal participation and representation of women in different tires of election with equal treatments. 3. PROJECT PROPOSAL DESCRIPTION Democratic Context Problem Analysis_P Project Beneficiary Project Objective_P Women political marginalization and empowerment is a longstand issue in Pakistan,ruled by conservative politicians to give women equal right. Pakistan constitution and other international provisions stresses on full participation of women and guarantees women to vote, contest elections and take part in political processes. But poor implementation and conservative social factors prevent women from playing a active role in the political arena. Women participation as contestant is also negligible. In Pakistan s democracy has been consistently hampered by military spells resulting in skewed process of democratic tradition. The feudal structures have been imposed by military lords who invariably get elected in the name of democracy and obstruct women from basic right of political participation. Illiteracy further compromises women ability to learn about the democratic tradition and use vote shrewdly. Balochistan Province is the least developed province of Pakistan, with poor track record regarding women empowerment. This is due to low literacy, limited opportunities to women political participation, poor political commitment, lack of realization about the power of women vote in the electorate process. In 2013, out of total 3,336,659 voters in Baluchistan, women turnout was 43% even lower than other provinces of Pakistan. Moreover, women voters do not get enough opportunities to get engage in a democratic process due to passive role of political parties. There is need to create more forums and opportunities that enable women to better understand the democratic process and power of vote. Women participation in national assembly election was very poor likewise out of 74 contenders only 04 were female in 2013. At provincial seats there was no general seat for women except 11 reserve seats for women. Again the representation of minority women seats is only one out of three minority seats. There is a dire need to educate minority women to participate in elections. Minorities, Marginalized & Vulnerable Groups To form women groups for voters education To identifybuild the capacity of vulnerable women to participate in elections as contestant. To engage media for promotion of voter education Interaction with ECP and NADRA for registration of women. Outcome 1 Target women trained and awared to engaged with democratic process. Performance Indicators for Outcome 1 # of women groups formed and organized # of women nurtured on leadership management skills # of women reached through voter educations by formed groups of women # of Media campaign conducted # of IEC material developed disseminated # of messages on social media # of dialogues conducted with political parties to effectively engage women to vote in elections https://na25.salesforce.com/0063100000f6axe/p?returl=/0063100000f6axe 3/12

Outputs for Outcome 1 Key Activities for Outcome 1 10 women groups formed and organized 100 women nurtured on leadership management skills 500 women reached through voter educations by formed groups of women 04 Media campaign conducted 1000 IEC material developed disseminated 700 messages on social media 06 dialogues conducted with political parties to effectively engage women to vote in elections Formation of women groups Capacity building of women on leadership management skill training women voter education by formed groups of Media campaign on voter education IEC material development/dissem messages on social media dialogues conducted with political parties to effectively engage women to vote in elections Outcome 2 Performance Indicators for Outcome 2 Outputs for Outcome 2 Key Activities for Outcome 2 Target women registered with NADRA and mobilized to vote in coming elections # of meeting conducted with ECP to support their registration campaings # of meeting conducted with NADRA for CNIC registration of women # of women mobilized for registration # of messages passed through media # of IEC material dessiminated on voter registration and CNIC formulation # of articles publised in newspapers on women registration # of registered women data maintained in organiza 08 meeting conducted with ECP to support their registration campaings 12 of meeting conducted with NADRA for CNIC registration of women 10000 of women mobilized for registration 4000 of messages passed through media 1000 of IEC material disseminated on voter registration and CNIC formulation 04 of articles publised in newspapers on women registration 1 of registered women data maintained in organization data base meetings with ECP to support their women registration campaigns meetings National Database Registration Autrority NADRA for CNIC registration of women Mobilization of women mobilized for registration messages on elecrtonic media regrarding improtance of women registration IEC material dissemination on voter registration and CNIC formulation Publishing articles in newspapers on women registration 1 of registered women data maintained in organization data base Outcome 3 Performance Indicators for Outcome 3 Target women empowered to demand for women representation and participation in elections charter of demand presented by women groups regarding women enhanced seats in assemblies # of women prepared to contest in national elections # of women prepared to contest in provincial elections # of women prepared to contest in local government elections # of Meetings with Women Caucus members # of dialouges with political parties for enhanced seats in party elections https://na25.salesforce.com/0063100000f6axe/p?returl=/0063100000f6axe 4/12

Outputs for Outcome 3 01 charter of demand presented regarding women enhanced seats in assemblies 50 women prepared to contest in national elections 50 women prepared to contest in provincial elections 75 women prepared to contest in local government elections 06 Meetings with Women Caucus members 05 dialouges with political parties for enhanced seats in party elections Key Activities for Outcome 3 Formulation of charter of demand by women groups women mobilization to contest in national elections women mobilization to contest in provincial elections women mobilization to contest in local government elections Meetings with Women Caucus members Dialouges with political parties for enhanced seats in party elections Monitoring and Evaluation Sustainability Gender Considerations Explain Marginalized or Vulnerable Groups Explain Why UNDEF? A comprehensive database will be developed to register all women who are registered as a new voter, trained on electoral process, registered as a contestant in elections and information related to valuable women. All the performance indicators will be measured through a monitoring plan according to set frequency. The data will be tracked in progress sheets to show the impact of the programme. Process monitoring will significantly supplement the learning of programme activities The formed groups will be linked at different level with media, ECP and political parties to interact with these segments for increased participation of women in electoral process. Dialogues with legislators will be conducted for effective legislation towards increasing the number of MPA and MNA seats in coming elections. The formed women groups will be linked with different INGO and UN agencies to leverage their activities after project life for enhanced results about women political rights. Gender considerations are taken into account in the project design Apart from interaction with male groups of ECP, Political party and media, the project is significantly covering female groups and communities of the target area. The programme will be focusing on marginalized women voters with special focus on disable and minority women of the target area. Under the programme women of the target area will be actively engaged and empowered on gender equality, engagement with the democratic process, right participate as voter and contestant. The needs of marginalized or vulnerable groups are taken into account in the project design. Marginalized groups like minority women and disable and vulnerable women will be included in all components of the project i.e. voter education, aspiring women to compete in election on general seats. Registration of new women will be equally focused to vote in coming elections WESS has successfully intervened with 35 different donors and UN agencies across different sectors. Promotion of democracy is one of the core programmatic areas at organization level. WESS is confident to contribute for the promotion of democratic values in marginalized communities of the province. 4. PARTNERS INFORMATION Proposed Implementing Partner(s) NA Other Donors/Sponsors Project Budget by Output Output 1 Women group formed and trained in leadership Output 2 Women reached through voter education https://na25.salesforce.com/0063100000f6axe/p?returl=/0063100000f6axe 5/12

management skills 1 Amount in US$ $17,971 2 Amount in US$ $56,114 Output 3 Awareness raised though advocacy campaigns on media to increased participation of women Output 4 Dialogues conducted with political parties for women engagement to vote in election 3 Amount in US$ $12,733 4 Amount in US$ $13,447 Output 5 Meetings conducted with ECP and NADRA for CNIC registration of women to vote in election Output 6 Women mobilized and registered with NADRA 5 Amount in US$ $11,257 6 Amount in US$ $52,234 Output 7 Awareness raised though advocacy campaigns on media for increased women registration with NADRA Output 8 Marganalized women trained for legislative participation at different tiers 7 Amount in US$ $21,542 8 Amount in US$ $19,351 Output 9 Meetings with women Caucus for increased women legislative participation Output 10 Dialogues with legislators for enhanced seats in general elections 9 Amount in US$ $17,429 10 Amount in US$ $8,209 Total Project Costs (TPC) $230,287.00 Project Budget by Input Staff/Personnel Costs Amount in US $ $30,685 Supplies Amount in US $ $686 Equipment/Furniture Amount in US$ $619 Travel Amount in US $ $9,716 Contractual Services Amount in US $ $44,762 https://na25.salesforce.com/0063100000f6axe/p?returl=/0063100000f6axe 6/12

Direct Activity Costs Amount in US $ $138,601 Transfers/Grants Amount in US $ Office/Admin Costs Amount in US $ $4,218 Audit Amount in US $ $1,000 Total Project Costs (TPC) $230,287.00 6. COMMITMENTS Develop Project by Deadline No intent to support violence/terrorism Aims/Purposes conform with Charter of UN Statutes/By Laws for Transparent Process Provide Annual and Financial Reports Proposal Assessment UN RC Commentator UN RC Received UN RC PCG Entity and Commentator PCG Received PCG https://na25.salesforce.com/0063100000f6axe/p?returl=/0063100000f6axe 7/12

UNDEF Submitted UNDEF Organization Information Organization Water Environment and Sanitation Society Phone 92812863826 Organization Acronym WESS Fax Migration ID Organization Website Number of grants 0 Address Information Organization Address Address 112 A 25th Lane Jinnah Town Quetta Quetta, Balochistan 87300 Pakistan Description Information Description System Information Created By Portal User English, 06/12/2016 03:27 Last Modified By Portal User English, 08/12/2016 05:42 Organization Owner Portal User English Scorecards SC 27541 Proposal Validity Valid Proposal Status Long listed Total Score 40 Project Focus Womens Rights and Empowerment / Gender Equality Scorecard Date 21/01/2017 of Assessor Aidai Masylkanova Activity History Email sent: new proposal submission (english) https://na25.salesforce.com/0063100000f6axe/p?returl=/0063100000f6axe 8/12

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