Deadline: 16-Apr-24
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is accepting proposals to enable livelihood restoration while strengthening community resilience against future disasters and ensuring gender equality and women’s economic empowerment are adequately addressed.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) through the Mozambique Recovery Facility – MRF (A multi-donor program established in 2019 after tropical Cyclones Idai and Kenneth to coordinate and mainstream technical assistance for all humanitarian clusters to integrate early recovery activities into humanitarian actions and guide towards the development pathway) will expand the activities in response to cyclone Freddy effects.
The MRF programme aims to facilitate the transition from humanitarian response to resilient recovery and sustainable development.
Objectives
- Develop and implement, through a community-oriented mechanism, recovery activities aimed at resilient livelihoods and sustainable economic recovery, with a focus on income-generating activities and disaster risk reduction actions.
- Promote subsistence/income generation activities that contribute to increased food and nutrition security and family income.
- Strengthen and/or develop various skills for family income generation and self-employment.
- Establish and promote savings and loans methodology as an alternative to saving money and securing credit.
- Create businesses or develop green enterprise initiatives for disaster risk reduction.
- Promote diversity, social inclusion, solidarity, citizenship, and the environment.
Cross-Cutting Priorities
- The following cross-cutting priorities will be considered by UNDP in this selection process and during program implementation and monitoring:
- Sustainability: A market development approach is preferred as it is seen as key to long-term economic sustainability. The market development approach must be structured to allow for the participation of both men and women.
- Gender equality: Intervention must be gender sensitive and built around equal rights and opportunities for women, men, girls and boys: proposed solutions must consider different social expectations, norms and access to time and resources, and be appropriate to the specific skills of the beneficiaries.
- Integration with the environment and climate change: The mitigation of negative impacts on the environment and climate change must be considered, as well as the optimization of positive impacts on environmental and climate change that consider the differential impact for women and men. This priority also includes efficient and resilient energy management in all proposed activities, such as those that include the agri-food system from production to consumption.
- Ownership: The intervention must be planned and implemented in close dialogue and coordination with beneficiary communities, local authorities, and other relevant stakeholders in order to create ownership, synergies and optimize overall results.
- Results-based management (RBM): Another key aspect is the design of a solid Results-Based Management system along with an organizational structure that allows for ongoing implementation and adjustments as needed.
- Cost-effectiveness: Cost-effectiveness should be one of the dimensions as well as efficiency and complementarity with other interventions in the UNDP-RF program.
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount under this Call for proposal is USD 500.000,00 targeting at least 4.000 direct beneficiaries.
- UNDP reserves the right not to award all available funds should the number and quality of applications not meet the established criteria.
- The duration of the proposed activities should not exceed the period of 9 months. The anticipated implementation period is April to December, 2024. The organizations are requested to submit a clear dynamic plan for the achievement of all outputs within the foreseen timeframe.
- The schedule and amounts of payments will be linked to outputs and will be agreed with the Responsible Party before the start of the implementation.
Results and Indicators
- Output: Livelihoods, early economic recovery and income generation needs identified
- Indicators
- Number of livelihood and economic recovery needs identifications completed ·
- Number of community prioritized schemes for rehabilitation identified
- Indicators
- Output: Disaster Affected people benefited from community- driven and gender-focused emergency Employment
- Indicators
- Number of highly vulnerable people provided with temporary employments, disaggregated by sex ·
- Number of children, women and men access to rehabilitated community socioeconomic infrastructure
- Indicators
- Output: Micro, small and medium enterprises and other income generating initiatives reactivated and/or strengthened and created
- Indicators
- Number of affected male and female entrepreneurs received assistance (% restarted businesses; % continue their business) ·
- Number of women and men that become self-employed or wage employed.
- Indicators
- Output: Capacity of local and national institutions for emergency employment and enterprise recovery strengthened
- Indicators
- Number of vocational training centers capacity enhances to provide demand driven vocational skills trainings and % of those that adapt the approach
- Indicators
Activities
- Activities to be implemented under the present request should include (but not restricted) the following:
- Selection of beneficiaries for the project in coordination with local authorities.
- Select existing Associations (farmer, fishing, etc) to be supported/reactivated in coordination with District Economic Activities Services (SDAE’s).
- Skills training (small business management/planning, financial literacy education, gender, entrepreneurship).
- Establishment and support to Village Savings & loans groups/Associations.
- Assets transfer for production/reproduction (local chicken, agricultural seeds, fishing inputs).
Expected Deliverables
- Selected Organizations/entities must provide the following deliverables to UNDP.
- Number of target families to be involved.
- 100% of beneficiaries must receive equal support and assistance.
- 100% registration and documentation of all assistance provided to each beneficiary.
- 100% of all weekly and monthly reports delivered and well informed.
- 100% of the reports will be done according to the indicators established at the beginning of the project between UNDP and the selected implementing organizations.
Target Areas
- The activities under the present call will be implemented in cyclones affected communities of Namacurra and Mopeia Districts, Zambezia Province. The total number of beneficiaries is around 4.000 vulnerable households.
Target Groups
- While the impact of the cyclone is widespread in the affected areas, there are specific social groups that demonstrate especially high levels of vulnerability, drawing attention to considerations necessary for their recovery: Women, Children, Elderly, People with deficiencies, People Living with HIV/AIDS.
Eligibility Criteria
- The parameters that will determine whether an applicant is eligible for consideration by UNDP will be based on the analysis of the documents provided in the applicant Information.
- Only organizations that have undergone the latest HACT and ranked as Low Risk or Medium Risk rating are eligible to apply.
- NGO/CSO must have proven Physical presence in Zambezia province;
- NGO/CSO must submit audited Financial statements for the last 2 years (2021-2022).
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