Deadline: 24-Jul-22
The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), in collaboration with the Sahel Regional Funding Panel (RFP), is pleased to announce a call for expressions of interest (EOI) for academic institutions, research centres, think-tanks and non-profits in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger to become a GCERF Local Knowledge Partner (LKP) through GCERF’s Core Funding Mechanism (CFM).
The LKP will assume a core function in GCERF’s Sahel programming with the overall objective to support GCERF portfolio regarding monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management, and research for GCERF portfolio in Sahel, strengthening the generation and consumption of evidence by both internal and external stakeholders.
Priority Interventions
The priority interventions identified are:
- Improving the Social Ecology to create conditions conductive to prevention and resilience-building:
- Supporting resilient pastoralism;
- Supporting the prevention and management of rural land conflicts;
- Supporting the development of resilient and decent economic opportunities through revolving fund schemes, vocational skills training, and job placements;
- Supporting equitable and gender-sensitive access to skills training and seed-funding;
- Inter and intra community dialogue at social, religious, and political levels.
- Facilitating community-led Rehabilitation, Disengagement, and (Re)integration, including of people disengaging from criminal, non-state armed and violent extremist groups:
- Promoting prosocial interactions;
- Creating spaces for disengagement through community-driven sensitisation;
- Improving dynamics impeding the (re)integration of displaced communities, and former fighters;
- Providing psycho-social and economic support to victims of violent extremism.
Funding Information
- GCERF plans to sign grant agreements with the LKP by the end of quarter three of 2022. GCERF will use the Core Funding Mechanism (CFM) to provide the grant. The grant is expected to be around 750K USD.
- The grants will be no less than 36 months and no more than 48 months in duration.
Capabilities
- Thorough knowledge of M&E methodologies and tools.
- Experience and skills in M&E capacity building (e.g. workshop facilitation and mentoring).
- Experience on conducting third-party monitoring and external evaluations, especially on projects related to Peace and/or P/CVE.
- Expert understanding of current trends and challenges in P/CVE in the Sahel and community-based approaches to programming and implementation.
- In-depth knowledge of the Sahel.
- Excellent French, English and local language skills.
- Ability to draft concise reports and communicate clearly (including visualisation of results and findings when feasible).
- Ability to interact with various stakeholders and clients in a sensitive and effective way.
- Experience in working with civil society organisations is extremely relevant.
- Experience in working with governments, and multilateral organisations similar to GCERF is an added advantage.
- Experience on publishing reports (evaluations, research) is important.
- Physical presence in the Sahel through the existence of the organisation Headquarters or local offices in the countries.
Prerequisites
- Appropriate legal registration of the consortium lead in one of the four countries for this call.
- Willingness to accept and fulfil the role of a Local Knowledge Partner.
- For the principal recipient, be a non-profit organization.
For more information, visit https://www.gcerf.org/call-for-expressions-of-interest-sahel-for-local-knowledge-partner/