United Kingdom-East Kilbride: Foreign economic-aid-related services – Framework Lead

The current contract for Foreign economic-aid-related services – Framework Lead is projected to end on 11-MAY-20 and may be available for retender. Support to Uganda’s Response on Gender Equality (SURGE).
The goal of the programme is to promote equal access by women and girls to development opportunities and a life free from violence. The programme will span 5 years and support the Government of Uganda (GoU) to integrate gender and equity in Public Finance Management (PFM) in compliance with Uganda’s PFM Act (2015). The programme will also support selected NGO’s to provide Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention and response services. To deliver the PFM components, the programme will target 6 sectors: Education, Health, Agriculture, Justice, Law and Order Sector (JLOS), Energy and Mineral Development and Trade/Industries and Cooperatives. To deliver GBV prevention and response services, DFID will fund 3 NGO’s through the successful contractor to implement the programme for 13 districts. The Service Provider (SP) will implement a programme to promote gender equality in Uganda through the provision of technical assistance and capacity building support to the GoU (particularly the Ministry of Finance, Planning and economic Development; The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development; and the Equal Opportunities Commission) for implementing gender equity in Public Finance Management. The SP will also provide technical backstopping support and grants management to 3 NGO’s (Action Aid, Mifumi and the Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention) to provide GBV prevention and response services in 13 districts.
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