Call for Proposals: Resilient Systems of Secondary Cities and Migration Dynamics

Deadline: 9-Dec-22

The United Nations Global Marketplace (UNPOS) is inviting proposals for the Resilient Systems of Secondary Cities and Migration Dynamics to provide migrants, forcibly displaced and host community’s equal access to quality public services, labour market integration and economic opportunities.

Objectives

• The Programme seeks to advance global thinking on the role and potential of cities in managing and seizing the opportunities and contributions arising from migration to and from secondary cities.
• The specific objective of this Call for Proposals is to enable partner cities, local governments, the private sector, host communities, migrants and forcibly displaced to design and implement approaches to provide equal access to quality public services, labour market integration and economic opportunities to migrants, forcibly displaced and vulnerable host communities in secondary cities of low-income countries.
• The programme focuses on secondary cities in developing countries. The concept of secondary city systems allows for a better understanding of migration corridors and the benefits of cooperation between cities. This perspective allows to conceive local development beyond boundaries and focuses on connections with neighbouring towns and villages as well as with more distant communities in order to take better advantage of mobility patterns. The programme is based on a corridor and catchment area or city systems approach; a continued focus on flexibility and the promotion of collective projects; strategic peer learning and technical training; and partnerships with respected institutions at the local level.
• Local partnerships between various stakeholders in the city are essential as the lives of vulnerable migrants and host communities are largely characterised by informality, which no single actor can effectively and durably address on its own to improve well-being, socio-economic integration and social cohesion. The programme facilitates endorsement and support at national level and serves as a platform for dialogue between different stakeholders at national, local and international level.

Intervention Areas

• Through this Call for Proposal, the Cities Alliance seeks for project proposals which will support city stakeholders in three intervention areas:
  • Objective 1: Secondary city stakeholders utilize provided financial and technical assistance to improve labour market integration for migrants, displaced persons, and host communities.
  • Objective 2: Secondary city stakeholders utilize provided financial and technical assistance to improve the gender-responsive, climate-resilient and sustainable provision of basic services for migrants, displaced persons, and host communities.
  • Objective 3: Secondary city stakeholders utilize provided financial and technical assistance to address persistent gender inequalities with contextually relevant responses by including a local organisation with a gender equality mandate for the design, implementation and evaluation of the project.

Lots

• Lot 1: Arua and West Nile Region, Uganda
• Lot 2: Jinja, Greater Jinja and the Kampala-Jinja development corridor, Uganda
• Lot 3: Adama and Industrializing Secondary Cities in Ethiopia
• Lot 4: Jigjiga and adjacent migration corridors along the Berbera development corridor, Ethiopia
• Lot 5: Labour Migration, Remittances and Local Development in Amatitlan and San Marcos, Guatemala

 Funding Information

• Lot 1: Arua and West Nile Region, Uganda
  • Title: Forced displacement and migration corridors in West Nile, Uganda
    • Cities Alliance may cover up to 50% of the total project cost. For Lot 1, the maximum Cities Alliance contribution is up to USD 350,000. As per requirement of the financing source, each applicant is required to co-finance, in-kind or cash, 50% of the remaining project cost.
• Lot 2: Jinja, Greater Jinja and the Kampala-Jinja development corridor, Uganda
  • Title: Leveraging cooperation among secondary cities in the greater Jinja–Kampala region to foster equitable access to services and work opportunities for rural-to-urban migrants.
    • Cities Alliance may cover up to 50% of the total project cost. For Lot 2, the maximum Cities Alliance contribution is up to USD 300,000. As per requirement of the financing source, each applicant is required to co-finance, in-kind or cash, 50% of the remaining project cost.
• Lot 3: Adama and industrializing secondary cities in Ethiopia
  • Title: Decent Work, Basic Services, and Inclusion for Migrant and Host Communities in Industrializing Secondary Cities in Ethiopia.
    • Cities Alliance may cover up to 50% of the total project cost. For Lot 3, the maximum Cities Alliance contribution is up to USD 350,000. As per requirement of the financing source, each applicant is required to co-finance, in-kind or cash, 50% of the remaining project cost.
• Lot 4: Jigjiga and adjacent migration corridors along the Berbera development corridor, Ethiopia
  • Title: Fostering secondary city cooperation along the Berbera Corridor to leverage migration dynamics for improved access to work and basic services (Dire Dawa – Jigjiga – Somaliland)
    • Cities Alliance may cover up to 50% of the total project cost. For Lot 4, the maximum Cities Alliance contribution is up to USD 400,000. As per requirement of the financing source, each applicant is required to co-finance, in-kind or cash, 50% of the remaining project cost.
• Lot 5: Labour Migration, Remittances and Local Development in Amatitlan and San Marcos, Guatemala
  • Cities Alliance may cover up to 50% of the total project cost. For Lot 5, the maximum Cities Alliance contribution is up to USD 580,000. As per requirement of the financing source, each applicant is required to co-finance, in-kind or cash, 50% of the remaining project cost.

Duration: 3 years

Eligibility Criteria

• In line with the UNOPS evaluation principles of fairness, transparency and integrity, this Call for Proposals intends to competitively select the implementation partners:
  • The proposed project must meet all the objectives and targets per Lot. Project proposals must be in line with the geographical and thematic scope as outlined in this Call for Proposals.
  • Applicants can apply for a maximum of one Lot.
  • The Cities Alliance encourages a partnership approach with strong leadership by local organizations.
  • Applicant organizations can be governments, international and national non-governmental organizations, research institutions and knowledge centres, United Nations agencies and/or international development organizations with a strong research track record and reputation on labour and/or involuntary migration to secondary cities in low-income countries. Commercial entities can not be lead applicants for this call.
  • Lead applicants must be able to provide proof of registration in the project country for at least five years.
  • Lead applicants must have proven experience in working on urban migration dynamics in secondary cities in the respective project countries.
  • Lead applicant organizations must provide a bank statement to receive funds in US dollars.
  • Project proposals must include at least 50 per cent co-financing of the total project budget (in-kind and/or cash). E.g. If a total project budget amounts to USD 1 million, Cities Alliance can contribute up to 50 per cent (USD 500,000), while the applicants co-finance the other 50 percent (in-kind and/or cash USD 500,000). Verifiable commitment to be provided (e.g. letters from co- financiers).
  • Applicants must comply with all provisions in the Grant Agreement, including the General Conditions, and applicable UNOPS policies and procedures. This includes compliance to UNOPS financial rules and regulations and the submission of an external audit report at the end of the project.
  • Entities on the UN Sanctions List are ineligible to apply.

For more information, visit UNPOS.