Submission of Consultancy Proposal

NETZ Partnership for Development and Justice (NETZ), a non-profit organization registered in Germany and Bangladesh, has been working in Bangladesh since 1989 to establish human dignity and fight against poverty with a bottom-up, self-help approach. In 2011, NETZ expanded its working area to neighbouring regions in India and recently initiated a partnership in Nepal. Across its programmes, NETZ works together with local partner NGOs and focuses its support on income and food security for extremely poor people, primary education for children of extreme poor families and promotion of human rights. 

NETZ aims to design a new project under its Human Rights Programme that will contribute to promoting rights-based culture and activism, strengthening the voices of youth groups as well as local and regional level civil society organisations to promote democratic governance and social justice for vulnerable communities through networking and dialogue with public authorities. Human rights violation in relation to the upcoming 12th general election is a major concern of the new project. Bangladesh has a history of widespread election-related violence, which especially targets women as well as religious minorities and indigenous peoples. The project aims to support civil society actors, human rights defenders (HRDs) and public authorities to non-violently strengthen human rights, especially for women and minorities. The project also aims to support communities to overcome the challenges of post covid-19 vulnerabilities in regard to human rights.

The main components of the project include: (i) capacity building of young and adult civil society actors and their groups; (ii) promotion of an inclusive human rights culture; (iii) protection of the rights of vulnerable communities with special consideration of pre-during-post election related rights violation. The proposed project aims to promote and apply democratic dialogue and non-violent approaches to uproot structural causes of discrimination and systematic repression against vulnerable communities and to strengthen social coherence and peace. It is intended to implement the project in 12 sub-districts of 6 districts. For this purpose, NETZ and its partner organisations will bring together their local, regional and national networks as well as their collective experiences and good practices from ongoing activities for the implementation of the planned project.

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Submission of Proposal:

Consultants interested to apply to NETZ are kindly requested to submit the following on or before 14th February 2023 through e-mail. sara@netz-bangladesh.de

• Technical proposal (not more than 4 pages)
  
• Financial planning (not more than 1 page)
  
• Most recent CVs of the Researcher (not more than 4 pages)