Deadline: 20-Jun-2025
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a call to identify CSOs, women and youth led organizations with operational presence and capacities and working in the selected locations in Wau, Western Bahr El Ghazal, South Sudan.
Objectives
- The call for proposals’ Objectives is:
- To strengthen local community infrastructure for peace to reduce community violence, enhance social cohesion, and integrate peacebuilding mechanism for resolving conflict between the host, returnees and refugees, especially the IDPs living in Western Bahr El Ghazal State, Wau, Kor-Malang.
- To support and provide income-generating activities for sustainable resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kor Malang, while promoting peace and social cohesion within the community.
Funding Information
- Grant Budget: US$ 40,000
Geographic Focus
- The project activities will be implemented for over a period of 4 months in Wau, Western Bahr El Ghazal, South Sudan, specifically areas with communities living in IDPs Camps, returnees and Refugees.
Specific Outputs, Activities and Deliverables
- Slot 1 PaCC: Scaling up of Income Generating Activities (IGAs) for 500 – (10 groups) of (IDPs, Refugees, Returnees, Peace Committees and Psychosocial Community Volunteers (PVCs) at the Kol-Malang IDP resettlement site in Wau to sustain social cohesion between displaced persons and host communities in Wau, Western Bahr El Ghazal State.
- The specific activities to be undertaken by the selected CSO are:
- Provision of entrepreneurship and business management mentorship to 10 existing IGA groups of IDPs, Refugees, Returnees, Peace Committees, and PVCs.
- Improve group savings to expand the access of group members to loan money for cultivation and harvesting. This will be done through crediting of savings groups account.
- Note:
- Only one Civil Society Organization (CSO) will be selected to implement the activities outlined under this slot in Kor-Malang
- To enhance timely and effective program delivery and impact, the activities under this component may be integrated into existing CSO grants that align with similar interventions and have a valid agreement with UNDP.
- The CSO budget may include direct, administrative, and indirect costs, with the latter capped at a maximum of 10% of the total budget.
- The specific activities to be undertaken by the selected CSO are:
Criteria
- The selected CSOs will work closely with the UNDP coordination field offices to harmonize their activities with the UNDP objectives and to ensure sustainability of initiatives undertaken.
- The selected CSOs will be expected to work with the established UNDP structures and infrastructures like the peace committees, youth and women leaders and coordinate with other ongoing UNDP projects in the respective areas.
- Prior to the start of implementation, UNDP will hold meetings with the selected CSOs to jointly develop a common understanding and standard approaches to the implementation of the project.
- The selected CSOs will also be subjected to UNDP processes including assessments and other
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