Deadline: 17-Jul-2025
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is inviting proposals for its project titled “Community Reintegration and Consolidation of PUDC” in Senegal. This initiative aims to strengthen the socio-cultural and development impact of the Programme for Emergency Community Development (PUDC) by incorporating a strong social engineering component to ensure sustainability.
As part of its work in the Casamance region, UNDP is implementing a Japan-funded project focused on helping former combatants and displaced persons reintegrate into newly cleared communities. The project emphasizes restoring basic services, building peace, and fostering social cohesion.
To carry out this work, UNDP is seeking an experienced NGO or CSO to lead several targeted activities. These include collecting civil status non-registration certificates in the communes of Boutoupa Camaracounda and Oulampane, conducting awareness campaigns on social cohesion, and providing psychosocial support for conflict survivors in the same areas. Additionally, the organization will be responsible for organizing community roundtables in the regions of Kolda, Sédhiou, and Ziguinchor and delivering citizenship capacity-building sessions for youth in these regions.
The reintegration project will deliver several tangible outcomes. It will help facilitate the official reintegration process by verifying documents and issuing non-registration certificates. It also aims to sensitize local communities to foster inclusion and non-discrimination and provide psychosocial care to support healing and resilience.
The main objective of this call is to identify a civil society organization capable of implementing these interventions effectively. More specifically, the goal is to support sustainable reintegration through civil status documentation, peace awareness, and mental health support. The selected organization will also help measure the impact of the PUDC model and engage the population—especially youth and women—in the development process.
The minimum funding available per grant is USD 55,000. This funding should cover a mix of direct interventions across communities and must align with the administrative and financial capacity of the applying organization. The expected duration of the project is no more than six months.
Eligible activities must target the communes of Boutoupa and Oulampane and focus on returnees, youth, women, mayors, and private sector actors in Ziguinchor, Kolda, and Sédhiou. Organizations must be based in one of these three regions and demonstrate a strong track record in local development, gender-sensitive programming, and project implementation.
Eligible organizations should have experience managing grants, effective communication systems, and the ability to submit a detailed, costed proposal. The budget should be divided into USD 20,000 for reintegration activities in the two communes and USD 35,000 for regional activities under the PUDC consolidation.
Proposals will be evaluated on several criteria. These include the quality and innovation of the technical approach, direct impact on beneficiary needs, financial capacity, and mechanisms for participatory monitoring and evaluation to ensure long-term sustainability and community ownership.
For more information, visit UNDP.