Call for Proposals to support Establishment of Regional Grant-making Entity and Capacity Building of CSOs

Deadline: 20-Aug-21

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is pleased to announce a call for proposals to support the Establishment of a Regional Grant-making Entity and the Capacity Building of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to provide regional leadership in the five countries – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Funded by the European Union, the Initiative is responding to all forms of violence against women and girls, with a particular focus on domestic and family violence, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and harmful practices, femicide, trafficking in human beings and sexual and economic (labour) exploitation.

It is expected that the Responsible Party (RP) will:

• build capacity of the selected CSO on requirements for grantmaking procedures, provide technical support to develop strategies for resource mobilization and use of alternative funding mechanisms; and
• provide technical assistance and capacity building of other CSOs in the six countries.

Deliverables

The Responsible Party will be responsible for the following deliverables:

• Provide a detailed workplan with responsible persons and timeframe for each step;
• Develop a Concept Note for the mechanism for supporting involvement of CSOs (including representatives of the CSO Regional Reference Group (CS-RRG)) in the regional women’s movement building, that will ensure engagement of underrepresented grassroot women CSOs; please take into account specific political and economic context in different countries of the Central Asia region and Afghanistan;
• Develop a Concept Note and Terms of Reference (TOR) for technical support (training of trainers) to existing regionally active CSOs to strengthen their capacity to support other CSO in the region; process, programme, methodology, logistics and technologies, monitoring and evaluation;
• Organize selection of the CSO with a potential to become a grant making body from the longlist of the identified during the mapping study CSOs;
• Develop a monitoring and evaluation plan, indicators, qualitative and quantitative targets, tools and include follow-up analytical reports based on feedback and responses in the quarterly and final narrative reports;
• Develop a communication plan; media monitoring plan (including social media); publications, broadcast, photographs, video, roll-ups and other visual materials;
• Deliver the capacity building activities to CSOs in the six countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan): organize at least 3 trainings in each country, indicating concrete number of direct and indirect beneficiaries, involved CSOs (including representatives of the CSRRG) and activists, survivors, youth, media, disadvantaged groups (rural CSOs, working with people with disabilities; HIV positive, migrants); simultaneous translation to/from English needs to be provided for all capacity building activities;
• Organize a three-day TOT for 15 CSO representatives from the five countries (F-2-F or online); agenda, list of participants, handout materials for the training (with translation into 5 Central Asia countries languages);
• Organize in-country consultations in each of 6 countries with involvement of the regional workshop participants and CS-RRG to present the results of the workshop and continue the discussions regarding all the points included in the draft network chart; identify key networks and organisations in each country, including grassroots organisations that work in rural areas. The meetings will be organised either face to face, remotely or both, depending on the pandemic situation and the restrictions in each country; simultaneous translation to/from English needs to be provided;
• Build capacity of the selected CSO on grant-making procedures and processes: provide technical support and all needed knowledge materials for each step of grant making process: manuals, guidelines, calls for applications, procedures, evaluation process, contracting, payments, monitoring and evaluation tools, closure (including all forms and templates);
• Develop strategies for resource mobilization and use of alternative funding mechanisms;
• Provide quarterly narrative and financial reports on templates provided. All supporting documents as attachments (e.g. sign-in sheets, photos, video, media mentions with links, scans of financial documents, etc);
• Organize a study tour for two representatives of the selected CSO who will receive the firsthand experience from the experienced grantmaking organization by learning from and shadowing relevant colleagues; the format of the study tour will depend on the epidemiologic situation;
• Organize a regional workshop once the in-country consultations have finalised, bringing together participants from each country. Participants will present the summary of the in-country consultations and will finalize the network chart.
• Final report with relevant recommendations and supporting documents as attachments

Duration

• Start Date: 1 October 2021;
• End Date: 31 August 2022.

Competencies

• Technical/functional competencies required:
• • Organization / company requirements:
    • Be an officially registered national or international entity (based in a CA country or outside);
    • Have at least 10 years of proven experience in civil society development, grant making, women’s rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE);
    • Proven experience of operating at the sub-regional/regional levels;
    • Practical experience in capacity building of CSOs, creation of networks and grant making in all 5 countries of the Central Asia;
    • Developed cooperation and partnerships with CSOs and authorities of five Central Asian countries;
    • Established quality assurance and control procedures;
    • Similar experience in working with international organizations.
  • Team leader qualified requirements:
    • Availability of an academic degree of a master of economic/ law / gender / social sciences;
    • At least 10 years of managerial and leadership experience involving planning, coordinating and executing multiple tasks with the participation of various stakeholders;
    • At least 10 years of grant making and capacity building experience;
    • Language qualifications: fluency in Russian and English. Knowledge of Central Asian languages will be an advantage.
  • Senior Expert qualified requirements:
    • Presence of a master’s degree of economic / law / gender / social sciences or higher or higher;
    • At least 5 years of experience in research in the field of civil society organizations, women’s rights, gender equality, CSOs capacity assessment and development;
    • At least 5 years of professional experience in the field of CSOs capacity building; experience in supporting capacity-building related to gender mainstreaming, gender responsive budgeting (GRB), ending violence against women and girls (EVAWG);
    • Experience in working with international and / or donor organizations;
    • Language qualifications: fluency in Russian and/or English. Knowledge of Central Asian languages will be an advantage.
  • Qualified requirements for a member of trainers’ team:
    • Relevant higher education in the field of economic / law / gender / social sciences, project management, monitoring and evaluation;
    • At least 5 years proven experience in conducting/facilitating training for CSOs;
    • Experience of facilitation and managing multi-stakeholders and multi-country environment;
    • Knowledge of CSOs in Central Asia;
    • Language qualifications: fluency in Russian. Knowledge of Central Asian languages will be an advantage.
• Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
  • Knowledge of Central Asian languages
  • Communication competencies by the team’s members

For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=81838