Deadline: 02-Oct-20
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hereby invites proposal from CSO/NGO for its Capacity Building of Youth to Prevent Violent Extremism with Innovative Approach (both online and offline), including spreading positive narrative to respond the COVID-19 crisis (PROTECT Project).
Through the Protect Project, UNDP aims to reduce misinformation about COVID-19 by strengthening the capacity of youth from Universities in 5 (five) cities in spreading positive narratives to response COVID-19 crisis by upholding the tolerance and respect for diversity values in a social media.
Project Activities
The proposed activities should demonstrate how to strengthen youth resilience with the necessary knowledge regarding the risk of radicalization and violent extremism including through social media. At the minimum, the proposed activities are expected to:
- Increase the knowledge and skills on how to create the impactful narratives to response COVID-19 issues.
- Increase the knowledge and skills of youth in the Universities in targeted cities to prevent violent extremism, including but not limited to how to challenges fake news and hate speech in social media.
- Raise awareness on how to promote tolerance and respect for diversity in social media
- Disseminate/ promote action for positive narratives to prevent violent extremism and to strengthen the capacities of communities.
Project Output
- Output 1: Strengthening Policy Assistance in order to develop, coordinate, and implement the National Action Plan on P/CVE.
- Output 2: National network, data, and trend analysis to stakeholders to prevent violent extremism and radicalism in Indonesia is available.
- Output 3: Strengthened capacities and resilience of P/CVE actors towards the extremist narratives and processes of radicalization.
Eligibility Criteria
- The grant recipient (civil society or non-governmental organization, academia) with experience in conducting activities/ programme in the area of prevention of violent extremism (PVE) and youth movement; experience in the area of promotion of peace, tolerance, and respect for diversity through communication tools; and previous experience in working with private sectors, such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram is an advantage.
- Permit to work in Indonesia (eligible legal status).
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Relevance of specialized knowledge and experience on similar engagements:
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at least 5 (five) years’ experience in the area of prevention of violent extremism (PVE) and youth movement
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Experience in the use of social media and communication tools for the promotion of online content, web platforms, websites and videos
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Experience in the area of promotion of peace, tolerance and respect for diversity through communication tools
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Experience in conducting workshops, trainings sessions, seminars for stakeholders and youth at community level
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Experience in working with government officials and Universities
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Previous experience in working with private sectors, such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are an advantage 1.4 Permit to work in Indonesia (eligible legal status)
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