Deadline: 18-Jan-23
The British Embassy Tirana invites proposals for their Freedom and Resilience Programme 2022 to 2025 project ‘Increased government accountability through a more responsive parliament’.
The aim is to create legal frameworks to better scrutinize programmes, policies and expenditure enacted by government and to facilitate public participation and discussion over all matters of societal concern.
Through the proposed project, they aim to strengthen Parliamentary democracy and improve government scrutiny. The proposed theory of change is designed to address the Parliament’s key challenges and is developed based on the availability of evidence, literature and input from different stakeholders operating in the country.
This project is funded by the UK Government’s Freedom and Resilience Programme 2022 to 2025, managed by the FCDO. The project will be overseen and supported by British Embassy staff in Tirana, Albania.
Scope
- The project will be delivered by a consortium and is open to international and local civil society organisations. Each consortium shall consist of two or more NGOs with demonstrated experience and expertise in the target areas, and in which they can deliver best. One NGO shall act as a lead project implementer ensuring achievement of project outcomes.
- Project proposals must be clear and concise, supported by a clear Theory of Change, and achievable and measurable outcomes and outputs. In line with adaptive programming, the proposal should remain flexible and open to change, based on needs on the ground.
- The project will be delivered in 3 phases:
- Inception phase;
- Implementation phase;
- Exit phase.
- Each phase shall be dependent on the success of the previous phase. The duration of the inception phase will be 2 months (unless agreed otherwise) and will serve to refine and agree the final version of the Theory of Change; Results Framework and Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluation and Learning (MREL) approach; Activity Based Budget, and Exit Phase necessary documents.
Budget Information
- This call will support initiatives for 2 years and 2 months, with a total amount of £ 1,250,000.
- Lot 1: 2 years and 2 months with a total amount not exceeding £800,000;
- Lot 2: 2 years and 2 months with a total amount not exceeding £450,000;
- Budgets must be Activity Based Budgets (ABB), with specified costs in GBP, and staff fees commensurate with local and international NGO market rates.
- You can spend up to 5% of the annual budget on MREL related activities. You should budget one independent/external evaluation at the end of each financial year.
- Administrative costs (project management and finance rates, utilities, internal communications, stationery, bank charges etc.) must not exceed 10% of the total project budget. This budget shall not be used to cover academic courses or research, the purchase of IT or other equipment.
Timeframe
- The duration for the implementation of this project is expected to be 2 years and 2 months.
- The project is anticipated to commence on 1 February 2023 and end on 31 March 2025.
Programme Outcomes
This call consists of two lots. Lot 1 corresponds to outcome 1 and outcome 2, whereas Lot 2 corresponds to outcome 3 as per the below:
- Lot 1: Enhance parliamentary legislative processes and increase the parliament’s and other actors’ capacities too oversee government policy making and implementation;
- Lot 2: Increase parliament’s responsiveness to citizens’ concerns through Civil Society Organisations, media and support from academia.
Eligibility Criteria
- International and local civil society organisations.
For more information, visit British Embassy in Tirana.