Deadline: 12-Apr-21
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the RAP-E Central Region in the framework of the Water Safety Plan project, it is allowed to communicate the launch of the invitation to submit proposals to choose three (3) local organizations to be beneficiaries of Low Value Grants (SBV), aimed at strengthening the capacities of organizations community organizations related to water management, through the financing of activities to carry out community readings on water security (characterization and diagnosis, maps territorial areas that account for the priority areas and needs, identification of projects to strengthen water security).
Placing special emphasis on the participation of organizations of women, youth, victims of the armed conflict, peasants, ethnic communities and LGTBIQ population. The contest is an opportunity to boost the potential of ideas and new practices that contribute to responding to problems identified with the management of water as a common good and human right, and that help to articulate multiple processes and actors, generating impacts and collective benefits.
The call is limited to the Sumapaz river basin, which in the department of Cundinamarca includes the municipalities of: Agua de Dios, Arbeláez, Bogotá (Locality 20), Cabrera, Granada, Fusagasugá, Pandi, San Bernardo, Venice, Pasca, Ricaurte, Silvania, Sibate, Soacha.
Funding Information
- The selected organizations will have a support of $ COP 20,000,000 Colombian pesos for their execution and will be selected by a committee made up of staff from UNDP and RAP-E.
- Duration: Two (2) months, without the possibility of extension.
What Issues should Proposal Address?
Participating organizations must carry out community readings on water security based on the following themes:
- Socio-environmental diagnosis of the territory in which key actors, areas of special environmental importance related to water, conflicts over use, appropriation and conservation of water
- Identification of planning and management instruments specific to the communities, and the priorities and challenges related to water management and use.
- Description of the main vulnerability situations due to disasters related to water and climate change, can include the identification of events hydrometeorological and possible community impacts.
- Identification of practices and knowledge in community water management in rural areas, and collective capacities to project and promote community solutions and joint actions to strengthen the water security of the communities.
- Identification of proposals and alternative sustainable productive projects that contribute to guaranteeing water security as a common good and a human right, such as such as: agroecological practices, productive reconversion, ecological restoration participation, ecotourism, farmers markets and other community practices that contribute to water security.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant can present social, community, community organizations with an ethnic focus, peasant, productive or other forms of organization typical of the territory, such as organizations of victims and organizations defending the Human Rights of Victims, organizations environmental, cultural organizations, youth organizations, domiciled within the basin of the Sumapaz River, as long as they are legally constituted.
- The proposal must be thought and presented by community organizations, and they will be executed by themselves with commitment, responsibility and ownership.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=76498