CFPs: Strengthening Capacity of Youth Workers to foster Civic Participation (Ukraine)

Deadline: 26-Dec-24

The present call for proposals is organized by the UNDP project “Civil Society and Youth Support” funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Through this CFP, UNDP aims to strengthen collaboration between civil society organizations and youth workers to enhance young people’s participation in decision-making processes and civic engagement.

CSYP contributes to the following long-term result: “Ukraine’s civil society and youth are impactful players in strengthening the country’s resilience and recovery, democracy and human rights agenda, including issues of respect to diversity and women’s rights and social cohesion “.

Objectives

• The aim of the competition is to support the activities of youth workers in sphere of fostering civic participation among youth at the local level in Ukraine.
• The proposed activities within this competition should focus on youth civic engagement and should include, but are not limited to:
  • Promoting advocacy initiatives that address challenges faced by vulnerable groups of youth in Ukraine.
  • Enhancing youth participation in decision-making processes and civic engagement, with a focus on skill-building, fostering leadership, and promoting active citizenship.
  • Strengthening social cohesion through initiatives that encourage youth collaboration within community.
  • Fostering youth involvement in the development and implementation of regional social programmes, such as Youth of Ukraine, civil society development projects, community recovery and development strategies and plans, and similar efforts.

Approach

• The project has a three-dimensional approach:
  • Firstly, it works on strengthen civil society organizations: focusing first and foremost at the subnational level) to enable active civil society participation in strengthening Ukraine’s resilience, sustainable recovery and development processes, link established CSOs with youth groups especially newly emerged initiatives after February 2022 to ensure cross-fertilization in skills.
  • Secondly, the project works at the central level to create a more enabling policy environment for CSOs and support the national “youth machinery. CSYP supports CSOs to monitor the implementation of national-level policies to determine progress made and areas needing additional efforts.
  • Thirdly and finally, CSYP empowers youth in to actively participate in Ukraine’s recovery by honing their skills for good citizenship and leadership. The project supports youth-driven projects and exposes young women and men to how local governments operate to implement locally relevant initiatives.

Funding Information

• It is envisioned that the budget within project proposal should be no more than USD 5,000. The maximum timeframe for the project implementation is 5 months

Geographic location

• UNDP will accept applications from all regions of Ukraine operating on the areas under control of the Government of Ukraine. The applying CSO or consortia must prove its capacity to operate in the proposed area of the intervention which will be assessed by the Grant Selection Committee.

Eligibility Criteria

• Non-profit organizations, in particular charitable organizations, public associations (including civil society organizations and unions) that are officially registered in Ukraine can apply to this Call.
• The applying organization should have proven experience in working with youth; the contest does not provide grants to profit organizations, political parties, state authorities, local governments, religious communities and private (physical) individuals and entrepreneurs.

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