Deadline: 11-May-21
UNDP is calling proposals for Local Champion Empowerment Program in Non-state Owned Forest Area to Strengthen Forest Area Planning and Management in Kalimantan.
The UNDP Indonesia and the Government of Indonesia collaborate to run a project entitled “Strengthening Forest Area Planning and Management in Kalimantan (KALFOR)”. The project is focused on the Kalimantan Island.
The island has suffered from habitat loss, habitat degradation, and overexploitation of biological resources and pollution. This is due to high demand on land or area for agricultural activities.
Forest land conversion for palm oil production is blamed to be the highest portion in the process of forest land conversion. The project intervention is focused on three pilot provinces: West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, and East Kalimantan.
The project aims to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) and other key government institutions such as the National Planning Authority (Bappenas), the National Land Board (BPN), and provincial/district governments as well as relevant sub-national government institutions to protect areas with retained forest cover from conversion to other land-uses including estate crops.
Priority Areas
To promote poverty elimination and against discrimination, KALFOR works on four priority areas as follows:
- Removing structural barriers to women’s economic empowerment, including unpaid work
- Preventing and responding to gender-based violence
- Promoting women’s participation and leadership in all forms of decision-making
- Strengthening gender-responsive strategies in crisis (conflict and disaster) prevention, preparedness, and recovery
Funding Information
- The grant recipient is required to prepare the Financial Proposal and should be maximum amounting to USD 80,000 equivalent to Indonesia Rupiah (IDR) 1,157,600,000 (UNORE April 2021).
Activities
The proposed activities should demonstrate how to strengthen the capacity of the local community champion including women living surrounding Non-state owned Forest Area (APL). This may be conducted through knowledge sharing, guidance, and capacity building. In addition, framework of businesses managed by local community needs to be improved especially at the project pilot sites. The framework includes, among others, business practice and operation, access to market and financing, and regulatory enabling condition. At the minimum, the proposed activities are expected to:
- Increase the capacity and collaboration of local community organization(s) with emphasis on women group to support community to minimize changing function of forest ecosystem into other uses particularly in non-state owned forest area. This includes facilitation to improve livelihood that relies on non-timber forest product.
- Increase the capacity of the local community champion to provide quality inputs for the decision-making process of the government.
- Develop standardized training packages/modules on local champion empowerment that can be delivered online and offline. The selected NGOs/CSOs might use local resources and tools to assess/review, facilitate/promote adoption, implementation, and monitoring-evaluation of the local community/champion.
- Organize capacity building/trainings on local champion empowerment (online and/or offline when the situation allows) targeting the existing community groups including women groups (e.g. Bumdes, KWT, PKK, Majelis Ta’lim ibu-ibu, etc.). The target beneficiaries of the trainings also includes women-headed household (perempuan kepala keluarga) in the KALFOR pilot project sites.
- Provide support (mentoring) for pilot activities at community level to improve livelihood of those relying on nonstate owned forest area. This includes identification of type of livelihood practice up to implementation of pilot activities to address issues on the ground and bring about concrete results for improved livelihood.
- With the support of KALFOR, the selected NGOs/CSOs will also need to conduct engagement and coordination with the local government to ensure a smooth implementation of the program.
Performance Targets
The proposed activities should target on local community champion, with particular target of women champion. In this regard, the selected NGOs/CSOs shall focus its efforts on undertaking activities as follows:
- Task 1: Develop a strategic 1-year Workplan for local community entrepreneur empowerment activities emphasizing roles of local champion
- Task 2: Conduct Needs Assessment of local community including women-based organization at village pilots (incl. Women-Headed Household, Women entrepreneur, women champions, KWT, PKK, Majelis Taklim Ibu-ibu, BumDes, Koperasi)
- Task 3: Develop toolkits/training materials and conduct training at community level
- Task 4: Institutional Strengthening of community organization capacity
- Task 5: Facilitation of pilot activities
- Task 6: Draft Issue Briefs Development
Expected Outputs
- Concrete practices designed to consider and take account of biodiversity and ecosystem services and local community issues including gender are to be mainstreamed into policies and practices for forest area planning and management and into land allocation decision-making for strategic plantations/commodities siting.
- At community level, the dynamics of a community is often influenced, if not driven, by individuals, regarded as local champion, who are capable of understanding local issue and offering solution as well. For an improved decision making and livelihood of people on the ground, the role of local champion is vital in terms of addressing people’s welfare.
- Local champion needs to be enhanced so as to bring about broader impact both to their own community and potentially to neighboring villages and communities.
Location and Target Beneficiaries
- The selected NGO/CSO will work to cover 2 (two ) districts which are Kutai Timur District, East Kalimantan Province and Kotawaringin Barat District, Central Kalimantan Province.
Eligibility Criteria
The grant recipient (civil society or non-governmental organization, academia) with experience in:
- Minimum 5 years and strong understanding in community entrepreneurship and development, community livelihood, gender issues and mainstreaming, advocacy and working with local government agencies.
- Proposed personnel shall include a team leader and technical specialist on village livelihood/supply chain, gender, and local government planning/advocacy, while administrative staff may include finance and administration staff, and other field as required.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=77875