Deadline: 15-Dec-22
The UNDP/GEF-SGP announces the Call for Concept Papers to award small grants of up to US$150,000 to Vietnamese non-governmental organizations, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs).
Purpose
The purpose is to undertake a systems analysis approach to the development and implementation of solutions that address upstream, midstream, and downstream management of plastic pollution, including baseline analysis, advocacy for policy development and implementation, development and implementation of waste management models, education and campaigns:
- Systems baseline analysis and preparation of baseline report and national action plan
- Baseline: analyze who is producing/using what plastics, where, and how to dispose of the plastic waste
- Stakeholders’ consultation and identification: what plastics are essential? How to minimize the use or import of plastics? What actions will be needed to achieve desired outcomes to eliminate non-essential plastics? What government policies are needed to implement the changes? What activities should be undertaken to shift human behaviors?
- Design and implementation of activities in the national action plans
- Development and implementation of community-based zero waste management systems demonstration sites (waste intelligent communities and cities)
- Prevent, reduce and eliminate unnecessary and non-essential plastic products to stop pollution at its source;
- Develop and implement actions to rethink, reuse, reduce, recycle and environmentally dispose of waste, following waste management hierarchy;
- Support the development of ecological alternatives and solutions;
- Incorporate informal waste sectors and enhance livelihoods for informal workers;
- Conduct regular clean-up for awareness raising, advocacy and behavioral change.
- Policy development and implementation
- Support policy formulation and implementation (including plastic ban on single use plastics, extended producers’ or importers’ responsibility, and incentives for clean environment);
- Undertake awareness raising and advocacy for the ban of non-essential single use plastics;
- Conduct Government-civil society-private sector meetings/dialogues to formulate and implement policies and regulations.
- Awareness raising, public participation and global campaigns
- Develop awareness-raising materials and outreach activities;
- Develop and implement intensive and regular awareness raising and public participation (such as weekly clean-up activities, radios/TVs programs, and social media campaigns);
- Organize the Annual Zero Single Use Plastic Week Campaign, June 8th World Ocean’s Day and/or Clean-up Campaign on World Clean-up Day on the third Saturday of September with whole-of-society participation (high level government officials, businesses and civil society organizations);
- Participate in South-South cooperation and exchange.
Funding Information
- The project proponent may request for a grant up to 100,000 USD in 12 months.
Results
- Baseline analysis and National Action Plan:
- Report produced
- Number of consultation meetings (with number of participants) conducted
- Development and implementation of zero plastic waste communities:
- Number of communities and people having benefited
- Tons of plastic waste avoided or reduced
- Policy for elimination, innovation, circulation and waste management:
- Number of policies (plastics bans, fines and incentives etc) drafted, introduced and discussed
- Number of government-civil society-private sector dialogues and meetings conducted
- Awareness-raising, campaigns and capacity development:
- Number of communications materials produced
- Number of community to Cabinet clean-up organized
- Tons of plastic waste removed from the environment
What to support?
- Focus must be placed on prevention, reduction and elimination of non-essential plastic use, particularly single plastic use.
- Identify producers, distributors and users’ responsibilities, and develop policies on “extended producer responsibility” and “polluter pays” policies and instruments.
- Support women, youth, people with disability and offer livelihoods activities to develop and pilot ecological alternatives to single use plastic.
- Support formalization and empowerment of informal waste sector, and develop capacity for informal waste sector
- For SIDS, import of non-essential plastic products should be limited through government import policy and regulations.
- Intensive awareness, education and civic engagement must be incorporated.
- Identify and develop good practices and scale up good practices through learning, sharing and policy adoption.
- Strong government support and policy development activities.
- Strong partnerships with local governments, businesses and civil society organizations.
Eligible Projects
- Include all of the four components;
- succinctly describe the problems related to the geographic area;
- explain how the proposed project objectives, outputs and activities would have a concrete impact and contribute towards the achievements of the identified problems;
- demonstrate how the project is aligned to the targets and objectives of the SGP Country Programme Strategy (CPS);
- show that projects are innovative, impactful, and sustainable.
- Promote social inclusion, including gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Grantee: Vietnamese non-governmental organizations, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs)
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