UNHCR National Call for Expression of Interest (Poland)

Deadline: 24-Jun-22

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Poland invites non-governmental organizations (NGOs) authorized to implement projects with the United Nations Agencies in Poland to express their interest to support UNHCR’s operations in Poland through partnership arrangements.

UNHCR Poland started setting up the structure of the presence in the country and the aim is to provide the basic needs to the people fleeing the war in Ukraine and coming to Poland seeking safety.

UNHCR started its activities with the initiation of the Enrollment of cash center providing refugees with the multipurpose cash assistance for 3 months. Aside with the center UNHCR had also established the blue dots in all the UNHCR center these blue dots will provide the refugees with different type of assistance (child protection, MHPSS- mental health and psychosocial support, and legal counselling) in addition to the referral to other stakeholders to provide the needed refugees with a more specific and specialized services.

Sector(s) and Area(s) of Specialization

• Education
  • Education – general
• Health
  • Health – general
• Livelihoods
  • Cash and voucher assistance
  • Community mobilization
  • Self reliance
• Protection
  • Child protection
  • Gender based violence
  • Legal assistance and access to justice
  • Protection – general
  • Protection in emergencies
• Shelter
  • Shelter in emergencies

Expected Results

The results that UNHCR’s operation tends to achieve with its protection interventions are:

• Ensuring that persons of concern have adequate access to critical services.
• Ensuring that persons of concern are able to have access to the required information to access protection services.
• Ensuring that persons of concern are able to more effectively realize their rights to access to the protection and income and durable solutions.

Criteria

• Sector expertise and experience
  • Demonstrated availability of required sector expertise, and required resources (material and human) in accordance with partner registration/ mandate,
  • Ability to quickly mobilize resources, expand and respond to emergency situations,
  • Innovative interventions that include collaboration with private sector and/or through existing government mechanisms.
  • PSEA Considerations within the project’s methodology.
• Project management
  • Ability to deliver project objectives with established accountability mechanisms (staffing, management systems, processes, scheduling, accounting system),
  • Sound financial management, including audit results of previous projects, and past performance (Share evidence of audit report in the last 3 years).
  • Demonstrated coordination with organizations working in the same sector,
  • Capacity to deliver timely and quality (quantitative and qualitative) reports.
  • Clear Internal Financial Control Policy
  • Segregation of duties in the organization’s processes.
  • Ability to manage assets and inventories.
  • Risk Management
  • Clear policy on Procurement Controls over assets and inventory management
• Local experience and presence
  • Partner is registered in Poland
  • OPP status granted by the government
  • Bank account in Poland
  • local currency
  • Years of experience working in Poland
• Cost effectiveness
  • Reasonable ratio between support costs (administrative/ staffing) and project deliverables.
  • Economic and competitive resource allocation to project activities
  • Good methodology for allocating shared costs to different projects
• Experience working with UN
  • Global and/or local partnerships including knowledge of UN/ UNHCR policies, practices and program,
  • Understanding of and ability to work within UNHCR’s funding limitations and associated inherent risks,
  • Partners that have three consecutive qualified audit opinions for projects will not be considered.
• Contribution of resource: Evidenced and documented contribution of resources to the project in cash or in-kind (e.g. human resources, supplies and/or equipment) that are presently available (or potentially mobilized by the partner) in order to supplement UNHCR resources for sustainability of projects should UNHCR funds be not available.
• Sustainability of intervention: Measures to integrate environmental sustainability within proposed activities. Environmental considerations are aligned to the objectives of UNHCR’s Strategic Framework for Climate Action.

For more information, visit https://www.unhcr.org/pl/ogloszenia