Awareness-raising campaign challenging gender stereotypes among high-school students

Description

1) Objective

The objective of the present Call is to challenge existing gender stereotypes of care work and traditional gender roles in both the workplace and family with the younger generation. The goal is to foster a more inclusive and equitable society where everyone can have equal opportunities to succeed regardless of their gender.

The proposal should include solutions around the following components:

• Component 1 -Capacity building of high school students: Under this output, the project should enhance the capacity of high school students on oral history skills to conduct oral history interviews with parents/grandparents reflecting on their perceptions and experiences of gender role division in labour. The stories produced by high school students will compete for award. This activity should engage teachers, young media influencers and youth educational organizations for providing necessary knowledge, skills and expertise of data collection, story -telling and dissemination. The applicant should provide detailed outline for this output in particular.
• Component 2 – Awareness raising campaign: In order to change the high school students’ perception of care work and traditional gender roles, campaign will be designed and implemented. The campaign will promote non-traditional professions for women, including careers in STEM, agriculture, entrepreneurship, management, science etc. The applicant should provide detailed outline of the campaign.

2) Eligibility

Eligible are organizations with a demonstrated success in working with high school students, teachers, parents, school administrations, educational NGOs.

3) Location

Actions must take place in Armenia.

4) Budget

The grant amount requested from UNDP cannot exceed $90,000.

5) Application

The deadline for submission of applications is September 13, 2024, COB.