Deadline: 15-May-25
The Digital, Inclusive, Accessible (DIA) Support project supports the digitalisation in Ukraine by strengthening the Government’s capacities to deliver high-quality and accessible digital services to people from vulnerable groups.
The DIA Support Phase 2 Project is implemented with funding provided by the Government of Sweden and closely cooperating with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (MDT). The three-year intervention builds on many years of UNDP Ukraine’s experience in two tracks: administrative service reform and re-engineering and digitalisation of processes in public administration, including through participatory citizen and expert engagement methods.
Goals
- The DIA Support Phase 2 Project aims to achieve the following goals:
- Empowering Government Institutions: Equipping government bodies with the knowledge and skills needed to design and implement policies. These policies aim to digitalise services for citizens, aligning with the Human Rights Based Approach principles and incorporating gender mainstreaming.
- Creating Human-Centered Digital Services: Developing digital service packages that cater to real-life situations. These services are crafted in a participatory manner, ensuring they are gender-responsive at every step.
- Increasing Digital Literacy and Usage: Ensuring that Ukrainian citizens, both women and men, are well-informed about and are able to use the digital and mobile-based services available to them.
Objectives
- The grant competition is aimed at conducting a series of trainings for administrators of the existing network of Digital Education Hubs libraries, to increase offline access to digital skills acquisition by vulnerable groups, including the elderly, and people without their own devices with Internet access. Tasks of this initiative include:
- Training and enhancing the skills of librarians in digital literacy and the ability to teach library users digital skills.
- Increasing the sustainability of Digital Education Hubs through the update and dissemination of the methodological manual/guidelines for the effective bureaucratic documentation of such library activities and enhancing the ability of librarians to transform libraries into Digital Education Hubs.
- Direct training of the representatives of vulnerable groups in digital skills, particularly in order to increase the ability to use electronic state services.
- Establishing a communication channel between the MDT and the target groups to test communication materials, service reengineering hypotheses, and receive feedback from digital skills receivers.
- Developing the concept of a Hub 2.0, which will function with the broader range of themes available at the updated Diia.Education portal, including upskilling/reskilling learning opportunities for the population.
Funding Information
- The maximum co-funding from UNDP shall not exceed 137’000 USD.
Eligibility Criteria
- The proposals coming in for the Project’s consideration will be initially measured against the admission criteria. To be considered for funding, the proposal must be submitted by an organisation that:
- has a status of a non-governmental public or charitable organisation or an association of civil society organisations (CSOs) officially registered in Ukraine;
- has a track record of active operation of at least five years;
- has a proven track record of cooperation with the international donor community, proper project implementation and reporting.
- The CfP will not accept proposals from for-profit entities, political parties, state authorities, local governments, faith-based organisations or religious communities, as well as from private individuals and entrepreneurs.
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