UNDP invites Proposals to Promote Alternative Narratives on PVE and to Address Religious Dimension of COVID19 Crisis

Deadline: 02-Oct-20

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hereby invites a proposal from CSO/NGO for its Capacity building for syndication among Islamic media and other religion’s online organizations to promote alternative narratives on PVE and to address the religious dimension of the COVID19 crisis (PROTECT Project).

Through the Protect Project, UNDP aims to reduce misinformation about COVID-19 by strengthening the capacity for Syndication among Islamic Media and also embrace religious-based organizations in spreading alternative narratives on preventing violent extremism and to address the religious dimension of COVID-19 by upholding the tolerance and respect for diversity values in a social media.

Project Activities

At the minimum, the proposed activities are expected to:
- To conduct an assessment on the best practice and lessons learned on the online initiative of counter-narrative in Indonesia with a specific chapter on the effort of religious-based organization and its youth and women wings,
- To facilitate the efforts in strengthening the syndication among Islamic online media and other religion’s online media, as well as embracing religious-based organizations to promote alternative narratives on PVE and to address the religious dimension of the COVID-19 crisis,
- To develop shareable content to promote tolerance and respect for diversity.
The proposed activities should target of Islamic online media, other religious-based online media, as well as embracing religious-based organizations. At least 50 percent of the participant is expected to be female. In this regard, the selected NGOs/CSOs will focus its efforts on undertaking several activities:
- To conduct an assessment on the best practice and lessons learned on the online initiative of counter-narrative in Indonesia, this shall include the holding of Focus Group Discussion (FGDs), in-depth interview, baseline survey among online media of the religious-based organization.
- To conduct a series of capacity building activities to strengthening Islamic online media and other religion’s online media on preventing violent extremism as well as to promote tolerance and respect for diversity, this shall include online and offline workshop with topics related to the prevention of violent extremism, promoting tolerance and respect for diversity in social and mass media, including on how to response fake news, hate speech, and COVID-19 crisis.
- To produce shareable content to promote tolerance and respect for diversity, this shall include video, shareable online content, and books of human interest stories regarding promoting tolerance and respect for diversity with contribution from all participants involved.

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 At least 5 (five) years working in the area of preventing 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 online media of the 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.