Deadline: 31-Jan-22
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is kindly requested to submit your Proposal for the GEF-SGP 2021/22 “call for proposals” to award a small grants to an anchor non-governmental organizations, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and community group to undertake a systems analysis approach to the development and implementation of solutions that address upstream, midstream, and downstream management of plastic pollution.
Emphasis is made on the use of citizen science to promote citizen participation, enhance data generation, awareness and behavioral change:
- Systems baseline analysis and preparation of baseline report and national action plan
- Develop a plastics baseline: Analyze who is producing and importing /using what plastics, where, and how to dispose of the plastic waste.
- Stakeholder 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 current interventions (campaigns and recycling facilities) to address plastic pollution are in place and how effective are they? What government policies are needed to implement the changes? What activities should be undertaken to shift human behaviors? (A series of stakeholders’ workshops, meetings and focus group discussions should be hosted to identify areas of reduction).
- Design and implementation of activities in the national action plans
- Policy development and implementation
- Support existing efforts by Government on policy formulation and implementation (including but not limited to the ban on single use plastics, addressing healthcare plastic waste, extended producers’ or importers’ responsibility, and incentives for clean environment);
- Conduct Government-civil society-private sector meetings/dialogues to formulate and implement policies and regulations.
- 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.
- Incorporate capacity building into the implementation.
- Awareness raising, public participation and global campaigns
- Develop innovative and interactive awareness-raising materials and outreach activities (in English and Siswati), ensuring the use of environmentally friendly material and supporting local producers.
- Develop and implement intensive and regular awareness raising and public participation initiatives (such as weekly clean-up activities, radios/TVs programmes, jingles, and well developed and structured social media campaigns), webinars. Work with youth and schools where possible and ensure that campaign target a wide range of audiences.
- Develop a zero plastics awareness campaign targeted at key commemoration days e.g. World Environment Day. Organize the Annual Zero Single Use Plastic Week Campaign, June 8th World Ocean’s Day and 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);
- Facilitate and participate in South-South cooperation and exchange.
Eligibility Criteria
- be a local non-governmental or non-profit organization with legal mandate to operate; or
- be community groups/community-based organizations, and social enterprise organizations recognized by the relevant municipal authorities; and
- have relevant experience and proven records of working with communities and groups in environmental, forestry and/or agricultural related activities and should be based or already have a working presence in the respective communities and priority geographical areas;
- the lead organization should propose a plan of engaging governments, research institutes, communities, media and other key stakeholders. University/research institutes can be engaged for the baseline analysis.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=87029