Deadline: 02-Oct-20
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hereby invites proposals from CSO/NGO for its Capacity Building for Religious Based Organizations to Promote Tolerance and Respect for Diversity, including Outreach to Communities with Various Channels to Address the Religious Dimension of the COVID-19 Crisis (PROTECT Project).
Through the Protect project, UNDP aims to reduce misinformation about COVID-19 by strengthening the capacity of religious-based organizations in preventing violent extremism, promoting tolerance and respect for diversity, including in responding particular conditions, such as the global pandemic recently, as well as spreading positive narratives to response COVID-19 crisis by upholding the tolerance and respect for diversity values in a social media and their regular preaching session both internal and external.
Project Activities
At the minimum, the proposed activities are expected to:
- Increase the capacity and collaboration of religious-based organization to prevent violent extremism,
- Strengthening the capacity of youth and women’s wing of the religious-based organizations on preventing violent extremism as well as to promote tolerance and respect for diversity in social and mass media,
- Increase the capacity of think-tank units in the religious-based organization to provide quality inputs for the decision-making process of the government.
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.
Key Activities and Performance Targets
The proposed activities should demonstrate how to strengthen the capacity of the religious-based organizations and traditional beliefs and its youth wings in the prevention of violent extremism and promote tolerance and respect for diversity. At the minimum, the proposed activities are expected to:
- Increase the capacity and collaboration of religious-based organization to prevent violent extremism;
- Strengthening the capacity of youth and women’s wing of the religious-based organizations on preventing violent extremism as well as to promote tolerance and respect for diversity in social and mass media;
- Increase the capacity of think-tank units in the religious-based organization to provide quality inputs for the decision-making process of the government.
Eligibility Criteria
- The grant recipient (civil society or non-governmental organization, academia) with experience At least 5 (five) years working in the area of prevention violent extremism (PVE), promoting tolerance, diversity, and peace-campaign; working collaboratively with the other religious-based organizations.
- The relevance of specialized knowledge and experience on similar engagements:
- Experience in working collaboratively with the other religious-based organizations,
- Experience in conducting capacity building activities, coordination meeting, and seminars for stakeholders, women, and youth at the community level,
- Experience in the area of promotion of peace, tolerance, and respect for diversity through various ways, offline and online, including using communication tools,
- Experience in engaging and coordinating with government officials and local government,
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Indonesian.
- Permit to work in Indonesia.
Selection Criteria
- Method (30%): Proposed methodology, work plan, approach, timeline, completeness of deliverables.
- Identity (20%): Registration status, having a specific status if that is necessary for the country context, etc.
- Capacity (20%): specialized knowledge and experience on similar engagement, standard operating procedure, financial report (audit report if available)
- Submission Requirements (30%): ideas presented including any requirements with regards to the utilization of resources, reporting, duration, and other formal criteria.
Only those organizations obtaining a minimum of 70% in the technical evaluation will be considered for the financial evaluation round.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=70315