| Overview : Extended deadline till 13 June Subject: RFP MAK/2016-05-10 – Developing and delivering a mentoring programme to support CSOs in prepration of gender budget watch dog reports 1. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) plans to procure services for developing outreach strategies for better involvement of women in local participatory processes and strenghtened networking among CSOs in this Request for Proposal and its related annexes. UN Women now invites sealed proposals from qualifies proposers for providing the requirements as defined in these documents. 2. In order to prepare a responsive proposal, you must carefully review, and understand the contents of the following documents: a. This letter (and the included Proposal Instruction Sheet (PIS)) b. Instructions to Proposers (Annex 1) available from this link: http://www.unwomen.org/~/media/commoncontent/procurement/rfp-instructions-en.pdf c. Terms of Reference (TOR) (Annex 2) d. Evaluation Methodology and Criteria (Annex 3) e. Format of Technical Proposal (Annex 4) f. Format of Financial Proposal (Annex 5) g. Proposal Submission Form (Annex 6) h. Voluntary Agreement for to Promote Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (Annex 7) i. Proposed Model Form of Contract (Annex 8) j. General Conditions of Contract (Annex 9) k. Joint Venture/Consortium/Association Information Form (Annex 10) l. Proposal Security Form (Annex 11) [copy from this link and insert if required] m. Performance Security Form (Annex 11) [copy from this link and insert if required] n. Waiver & Release of Indemnity Form (Annex 12) [Include only if site inspection/visit(s) are required] o. Submission Checklist (Annex 13) 3. The Proposal Instruction Sheet (PIS) -below- provides the requisite information (with cross reference numbers) which is further detailed in the Instructions to Proposers (Annex-I –see above link). | 
