Deadline: 18-Apr-2024
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is delighted to announce request for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including Faith-Based and Religious Institutions for application of Small Grants for participation of survivors and victims network and other stakeholders in transitional justice processes and conduct outreach activities on Peacebuilding, Truth, Reconciliation and Healing in Western Equatoria (Nagero and Tambura) and Eastern Equatoria (Kapoeta North, Kapoeta South, Kapoeta East, and Ikotos), South Sudan.
South Sudan is emerging out of a brutal conflict that killed thousands and displaced millions of its citizens since the civil war broke out in 2013, barely two years after its independence. In 2018, after months of negotiations following the collapse of the 2015 agreement, various political and armed groups signed the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS). Civilians have been subjected to widespread human rights violations and abuses, including killing, injury, abduction, sexual violence, and destruction of properties. Women and youths in South Sudan from the age of 15-40-year-old found themselves stuck in unimaginable generation-threatening challenges. Further, Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) also suffer the most in post-war and post-conflict situations like these, experiencing the highest levels of violence, abject poverty, stigmatization, and exclusion.
Objective
- The objective of the grant is to build on and expand on the network of survivors and other stakeholders to enable them to discuss issues in relation to the conflict violence, trauma healing, and non-violent means to achieve justice and peace, legal and institutional framework of CTRH.
Funding Information
- A grant not exceeding US$ 40,000.00 will be made to the successful organizations to implement activities.
- Duration of the project: The project duration is six months.
Expected Results
- The organizations are encouraged to develop their own expected results based on their respective assessment of needs, issues, and challenges of survivors and victims in the transitional justice processes. Expected results will include the following:
- 20 existing survivors’ networks initiatives are strengthened and more directly engaged with religious leaders, CSOs, chief and members of political parties to spearhead peace dialogues, participating on awareness raising on peace and transitional justice messages within their communities. Support and increase youth, women and PWDs programming that builds their capacities in peace building, reconciliation and nations building processes so that youth can become active citizens and civically engaged especially in building peace and development in the rural areas.
- Establish 6 more youth, women and PWDs peace networks at subnational levels to build a critical mass for policy influence, promote collaboration and joint programming.
- Establish specific programs that further amplify the voices of women, PWDs and youths in peacebuilding processes.
- Support the existing women, youth and PWDs groups and also promote the establishment of new ones including building their capacities in leadership skills, governance, confidence building training including public speaking.
- Strengthen peaceful coexistence and address immediate peace issues; grazing land, water resources, pastoralists and agricultural communities.
- Develop context specific peace messages, translated and disseminated at grassroots levels using peace building strategies such as arts, sport, dances, wrestling and radio distribution.
- Set up capacity building of young people on positive use of social media for social change. This ensures young people become champions of peace through the use of social media. Support to social media advocacy and campaigns will be instrumental in raising voices of youth in the peace process.
Expected Output
- The organizations are encouraged to develop their own expected results based on their respective assessment of needs, issues, and challenges of survivors and victims in the transitional justice processes. Expected outputs will include the following:
- Build capacity of existing survivors’ networks as distributed in Western Equatoria (Nagero, 8 and Tambura, 7) and Eastern Equatoria (Kapota North, 5, Kapoeta South, 5, Kapoeta East, 5, and Ikotos, 5), religious leaders, faith-based formations, community informal leaders, chief and members of public to spearhead peace dialogues, participating on awareness raising on peace and transitional justice messages within their communities.
- Build capacity of 2,100 members (700 per cluster) of survivors’ networks to prevent violent, deal with conflict and related trauma to enable their views to be heard especially on the design of the legal and institutional framework of CTRH and prepare them to participate meaningfully in the transitional justice process.
- Mobilize and support 1,200 people (400 per cluster) or survivors identified from survivors’ networks, CSOs, Chief and members of political parties and religious leaders to participate in training programs, radio talk shows and round table discussions on transitional Justice processes.
- Support 300 stakeholders (100 per cluster) from survivors’ networks, CSOs, religious leaders, Chiefs, political party representatives and other relevant stakeholders to receive key guiding principles and approaches on transitional justice and processes for the establishment of Commission on Truth, Reconciliation and Healing.
- Carry out trainings for 1200 members (400 per cluster) of the victims’ and survivors’ network, CSOs, religious leaders, chiefs, and members of political parties on women, PWDs and children’s rights, gender equality, leadership, advocacy skills, public speaking and peacebuilding.
Eligibility Criteria
- General Organizational Capacity
- Organization legally established and a member of an NGO forum with gender parity policy. – attach copy of registration
- Organization registered / accredited in South Sudan attach copy of registration
- Appropriateness of Organizations Mandate and/or Mission.
- Organization’s oversight / governance structures.
- Appropriateness of Organizational structure in South Sudan, including:
- Competency of the organization’s staff and previous experience in related fields
- Current staff base to support the programme (programming, monitoring, reporting, finance, procurement, logistics, etc.) Signed CVs to be attached
- Experience of working with national NGOs in South Sudan and in other countries.
- Technical Capacity
- Demonstrated technical capacity of the organization relating to conflict related sexual violence, SGBV, gender equality, women’s empowerment, youth inclusion, community engagement and trust-building.
- Availability of in-house technical skills.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve results.
- Experience of Organization in South Sudan
- Demonstrate technical capacity to successfully manage small grants; plan, organize, establish and operationalize transitional justice and peacebuilding initiatives at the county level
- Demonstrate experience working with SGBV survivor’s and grass-root communities, advancing gender equality and youth inclusion issues in post-conflict settings
- Approach to Partnerships and Capacity Building
- Demonstrated experience working with civil society in South Sudan.
- Management and Administrative Capacity
- Demonstrated capacity to effectively manage grant funds as well as the institutional capacity (equipment, facilities, competence and experience of personnel, and past record of managing such projects) necessary for project implementation.
- Reasonable overhead charges, including support costs;
- Adequacy of accounting and finance management system, including financial control frameworks.
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