Deadline: 11-Oct-21
In partnership with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and with financial support from Innovation Norway, UN Women is implementing a Humanitarian Innovation Programme, which aims at tackling the challenge of leveraging the potential of mobile technologies and other digital technologies to enhance the resilience to disasters of rural women in Haiti, Liberia, Malawi, Mali and Senegal by improving their access to both disaster risk reduction and risk transfer and financing mechanisms.
To strengthen rural women’s resilience to disaster through innovative solutions, UN Women in partnership with UNCDF is organizing this request for application to identify inclusive, highimpact solutions that offer an opportunity to accelerate the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for the people, particularly the rural women, of the following 5 countries: Haiti, Malawi, Liberia, Mali, and Senegal.
Areas of Intervention
Candidates can apply for the following two areas of intervention:
- Digital solutions for disaster risk reduction: To strengthen the resilience of women smallholder farmers’ lives and livelihoods to disasters through digitally enabled disaster risk reduction services and/or products that are tailored to their needs.
- Digital solutions for disaster risk transfer and financing: To strengthen the resilience of women smallholder farmers’ lives and livelihoods to disasters through digitally enabled disaster risk transfer and financing services and/or products that are tailored to their needs.
Funding Information
- UNCDF and UN Women contributions may be up to 50,000 USD.
- Projects are expected to have an approximate 6-month duration. Activities are expected to be terminated no later than 30 May 2022. Final and assessment report will have to be submitted no later than 30 July 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entity registration
- The applicant/lead must be registered entity with at least three years of operations and must have statutory accounts and audited financial statements for at least three operating years.
- The lead applicant must have conducted or associated with similar kind of work. Preferences will be given to banks, microfinance institutions, insurance companies, payment service providers, agent banking aggregators, mobile network operators, fintech companies, non-banking financial institutions.
- Country of operations
- The applicants can be based anywhere globally, however the operations of the applicant organizations should target women smallholder farmers in the following project countries: Senegal, Mali, Liberia, Malawi, and Haiti.
- Consortiums (when applicable)
- Applicants can apply only once under this RFA, whether independently or in a consortium.
- Joint applications between market players in the target country or countries are encouraged if the solution proposed will expand delivery networks and promote rural and/or other last-mile access to disaster risk reduction services.
- Applications from consortiums of organizations must show that the partnership was established prior to this call for applications.
- The lead applicant and partner must be legally registered entities
- Solutions to be supported
- The proposed solution shall target the resilience of women smallholder farmers’ lives and livelihoods to disasters through digitally services and/or products at any stage of development.
- Solutions to be favoured have tested a proof of concept ready to undergo pilot testing for a duration of 6 month
For more information, visit https://www.uncdf.org/article/7190/rfa-digital-solutions-for-rural-womens-resilience-to-disasters
