Deadline: 28-Feb-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a call for proposals for the Innovation Challenge in Response to COVID-19.
This Innovation challenge aims to promote the role of women and men, as actors, citizens, engaged, innovative and creative, in a context of crisis.
The initiatives proposed must imperatively pursue ONE OR MORE of the 3 objectives following:
- Support the health effort by supporting the conversion of business production to provide care materials or other products / services that directly contribute or indirectly to the health effort;
- Support economic activity through the establishment of business assistance services (for example: digitalization, application development, production of material low-cost IT dedicated to micro-enterprises, etc.);
- Support the maintenance of services to households and vulnerable people (for example: delivery at home, adapted personal assistance services, etc.)
Funding Information
- The financial support offered by UNDP under this call for proposals is between 50,000 TND and 100,000 TND.
- The expected duration of a project should not exceed 6 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- The innovation challenge is aimed at women and men, with an innovative project of reconversion and / or adaptation of micro-enterprises to respond to the impacts of COVID 19 in the South (Gabès, Gafsa, Kébili, Médenine, Tataouine, Tozeur). The promoters of a project can present a project as an individual, as entrepreneurs, or associations.
- The initiatives supported within the framework of this challenge are for the benefit of the community, in particular of the most vulnerable and / or marginalized people, especially women, affected by the crisis caused by COVID-19, in the target governorates.
- Individual project leaders must meet the following conditions to be able to claim financial support:
- Be a woman or man 18 years of age or over;
- Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action and not limit yourself to an intermediary role;
- Be independent from political parties / movements.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=74824