Design and administration of International Development Equalities Programme Women and Girls Fund

This prior information notice is to inform the market that the Scottish Government intends to publish a procurement in order to seek a suitably qualified and experienced Service Provider to undertake the design, development, and delivery of a Women and Girls Fund. This will be a new Fund that will form part of the International Development Fund’s (IDF) new Equalities Programme. The term of a contract as a result of the intended procurement will be for a four year period with options to extend for a further three years. The indicative value of the fund to cover the four year period is inclusive of administrative costs.

The Scottish Government’s International Development Team is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced Service Provider to undertake the design, development and delivery of a Women and Girls Fund.

The overall aim of the fund is to provide appropriately targeted direct funding to support women and girls in Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda, with the advancement of gender equality and the rights of women and girls as a principal objective. The fund will likely focus on advocacy and/or capacity/core strengthening of women’s organisations and/or movements within our ID Sub-Saharan African partner countries. In line with the Scottish Government’s International Development Principles, and commitments to ‘do no harm’, and to be global south-led, we are seeking a Service Provider that is able to design and deliver the WaGF taking a participatory approach in our partner countries to develop and deliver interventions that tackle inequalities experienced by women and girls and/or support organisations that advocate for their rights.

The programme design and decision making processes should involve meaningful participation and consultation of a diverse range of local women and girls and relevant associated marginalised groups (e.g. participants from a range of different: ages, sexual orientations, socio-economic backgrounds, religions rural and urban areas, those living with disabilities), as experts by experience and/or women’s rights and gender equality civil society advocates, in the relevant partner country.

Grants awarded through this Fund will be administered directly to local organisations based in Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda.