Deadline- 8th March 2013
Submission of proposals are invited by UN-WOMEN to undertake a research study on Strategic Analysis of Methodology of the Studies Reviewing Gender Differential Patterns and Use of Remittances.
UN Women supports research initiatives in order to make concrete empirical evidences of the significant role that gender plays in determining the impact as well the causes of the development-migration nexus.
The Proposals prepared by the Offeror and all correspondence and documents relating to the Proposal exchanged by the Offeror and the procuring UN WOMEN entity shall be written in the English language.
Remittances are considered the most visible and straightforward index by which to measure migrants’ contribution to the development of their countries of origin. Overall, money transfers by migrants to families and relatives in the country of origin are significant: on the whole, remittances represent the second largest external source of funding to developing countries, and in many developing countries their overall volume exceeds that of foreign direct investment.
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