British Embassy in Santo Domingo: Call for Activity and Project Proposals 2020/2021

Deadline: 13 March 2020

The British Embassy in Santo Domingo is now accepting activity and project proposals for the 2020/2021 financial year.

Themes

• Girls’ education and gender equality
  • In particular, projects aiming to address teenage pregnancy and raise awareness of women’s and reproductive rights. Including, but not limited, to public campaigns and events, workshops, conferences, school and mobile teaching.
• Climate change and green finance
  • Projects related to climate change and tackling green issues through education, training, campaigns, public awareness raising, and other initiatives related to the causes and impacts of climate change. These projects can revolve around subjects such as oceans preservation, renewable energies and the reduction of single use plastic. In this category, they are also looking for projects that focus on Green Finance (sustainable finance, green bonds, blue bonds, among others) be it through trainings, workshops and conferences. They will particularly welcome proposals that are linked to or build around COP26 (UN Climate Change Summit) and its objectives.
• Media freedom
  • They are looking for projects that will help promote and/or strengthen Media freedom through targeted training and workshops. Projects in this category can include inviting journalism experts from the UK to the Dominican Republic. They welcome projects by Dominican journalists who have identified short-term, focused training opportunities or conferences related to journalism in the UK.
• Innovative technologies, cyber security and artificial intelligence
  • In particular, projects around workshops, conferences or training seeking to support the socio-economic growth and development of the Dominican Republic through the application of new technologies, cyber security and artificial intelligence.
• Human rights, rule of law and democracy
  • In particular, strengthening democratic governance and rule of law; increasing equality and reducing violence and discrimination against women and vulnerable groups such as the LGBTI community; raising awareness on border migration and tackling modern slavery.
    • For this strand only, they may be able to fund one project for DOP 1,135,000.00 (one million one hundred and thirty five thousand Dominican pesos) or equivalent in USD. This project will educate on one of the former subjects, should lead on impactful behavioural changes and will set out key actions to be undertaken by project implementers.

Funding Information

The British Embassy is seeking to support activities up to DOP 565,000.00, or equivalent in USD, that deliver real, measurable outcomes in support of socio-economic growth and development of the Dominican Republic.

Bid Guidance

• Projects are funded under a reimbursement scheme for a single financial year, with no expectation of continued funding beyond this period;
• Project must be completed by 31 December 2020. Projects with finishing dates of 31 January 2021 can be considered as long as 85% of the budget is executed by 15 November 2020.

Assessment

Bids will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Alignment with the above thematic priorities and outcomes;
• Achievable outcomes within the funding period and sustainable after the funding ends;
• Clear project design which includes monitoring and evaluation procedures;
• Identified risks and planned mitigation;
• Demonstrated value for money in the activity based budget;
• The organisation’s safeguarding policies that ensure protection of beneficiaries.

How to Apply

You must submit the proposal using the Activity bid form. If you wish to submit a project Proposal of over DOP 1 million, which is only available for the Human Rights and Democracy strand, use the Project bid form;

All proposals must be submitted via email at the address given on the website.

For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/news/santo-domingo-call-for-activity-and-project-proposals-20202021