Deadline: 13-Nov-22
Through this Call for Proposals, World Food Program (WFP) is seeking to engage with experienced Cooperating Partners (CPs) who can support the implementation of the In-kind Food Assistance for Vulnerable Groups in Ukraine for the period covering 01 January 2023 to 31 December 2023 in selected oblasts of Ukraine: Dnipropetrovska, Donetska, Luhanska, Kharkivska, Khersonska, Mykolaivska, Zaporizka.
The UN World Food Program (WFP) provides food and cash assistance to about 2 million people a month. Food aid includes provision of bread, rapid response food kits and food distribution (30-day food kit, additional food for children, institutional food). WFP is working with partners to cover the Interim Country Strategic Plan (T-ICSP) period.
Expected Results
- Within the in-kind operations partners are requested to express their interest and ideas for joint work within the following activities:
- General Food Distribution (GFD): This activity is intended to cover the needs of those most vulnerable residing and/or trapped within the regions and areas. This includes people with disabilities, elderly, women-headed households, large families with many kids and fewer caretakers, chronically ill, as well as those that have lost completely their livelihoods and incomes. GFD is intended as a temporary solution for up to three months. Selected beneficiaries should be supported up to three months. At the end of this support period partners should re-evaluate the vulnerability and circumstances in which and where the selected beneficiaries live. Selection of beneficiaries should be vulnerability based (either geographical and/or individual) and needs to be coordinated very closely with local stakeholders including local authorities, community-based groups, and leaders.
- Supplementary Feeding (SF): Within this activity WFP intends to cover the special nutritional needs of children from 6-24 months of age. The product (infant cereals) distributed within this activity is beneficial as a supplementary feeding practice. Families with children and targeted through GFD would constitute the best target group, however, other families with children from 6-24 months of age can be also included as long as there are other vulnerabilities including undernutrition of either the family as a whole or particularly the child/children.
- Institutional Feeding (IF): IF is a key component of the overall In-Kind operations of WFP in Ukraine. The activity is implemented in close collaboration with local authorities at local as well as national levels. Main target of IF are medical institutions such as hospitals and clinics, but also other community centres, IDP accommodation centres, orphanages etc. The idea behind the IF is to provide support for institutions that have cooking facilities and running food procurement processes, but that lack financial resources to provide stable and nutritious food to patients and residents of those centres. In other cases, local authorities have chosen to work with and support local small business such as bakeries and increasing their volumes of bread and other similar products that are then distributed free-of-charge to vulnerable populations. Other examples of IF are the complementarity of different donations (particularly food) that local authorities combine into food baskets to be distributed to the people in need that they have identified and registered. Interested partners that are willing to collaborate within this activity should provide their inputs and proposals for WFP consideration and further analysis.
- Bread and Ready-to-Eat Operations (RtE): These rapid response types of operations are ideally implemented in a sudden onset crisis which means wither newly displaced people or people residing in newly accessible areas. For example, WFP and its partners responded swiftly at a substantial increase of needs in newly accessible areas in Kharkiv and Kherson during September and October 2022. Bread and Ready-to-Eat quick injections of ready-to-eat meals were found the most agile tool to respond to those needs. These types of responses are very effective also in circumstances where electricity, gas and other cooking utilities and infrastructure are lacking or missing. These activities should be as soon as possible making space for more substantial food support such as GFD, planned and designed for longer periods of time and richer in commodities both from a food group as well as weight perspectives. Bread and RtE operations therefore are a quick temporary solution from one to three weeks to maximum a month depending on the context. On some occasions they might be extended and targeting the needs of extremely vulnerable individuals such as elderly people in need of special attention and special types of food.
Eligibility Criteria
- The organization must be able to work in one or more front-line conflict areas in Dnipropetrovska, Donetska, Luhanska, Kharkivska, Khersonska, Mykolaivska Zaporizka oblasts of Ukraine.
- Organizations may offer other oblasts they believe can contribute to addressing food assistance in the case of sudden displacement.
Selection Criteria
- Organizations and their project proposals shall be assessed against the following criteria:
- Sector expertise in food distribution (weight of criteria: 20)
- Organization’s capacity and experience in project and financial management (weight of criteria: 20)
- Relevance of the proposal to achieving expected results and proposed approach (weight of criteria: 20)
- Compliance of potential CP with requirements on Protection, Accountability to Affected Population (AAP), and PSEA and Gender Equality and Disability Inclusion (weight of criteria: 10)
- Geographic coverage and local presence (weight of criteria: 10)
- Budget effectiveness (weight of criteria: 20)
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