GCERF Call for EOIs: Strengthening Community Resilience to Violent Extremism in Bangladesh

Deadline: 1 March 2019

The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) and the Bangladesh Country Support Mechanism (CSM) of GCERF have announced a Call for Expression of Interest from Bangladeshi organisations to become a Principal Recipient (PR) or a Direct Grantee of funding from GCERF’s Core Funding Mechanism (CFM).

The Call for Expression of Interest is for initiatives to strengthen community resilience to violent extremism in Bangladesh.

The GCERF Governing Board approved the pre-allocation of up to USD5 million over 3yearsto support programmes in Bangladesh that focus on:

the following specific demographic/population groups:(juveniles ages 12-17; young adults ages 18-34) and their families: secondary school and madrasa students; university-level students; out of school and unemployed; “virtual youth” (i.e. youth active in the digital sphere); women who lack information about violent extremism, and do not have an independent source of income; Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (“Rohingya”) and the host community in Cox’s Bazar; local authorities.
in the specific geographic locationsof theChapai Nawabganj District (and Rajshahi city), Greater Dhaka (six districts), Cox’s Bazar District (and Chattogram division, formerly known as Chittagong division), Satkhira District (and Khulna city).
and addressing the following drivers/factors of radicalisation to violent extremism: lack of a sense of purpose including critical thinking and life skills, perceived marginalisation, poverty, inequality, unequal distribution of power and influence, lack of positive opportunities, and an attraction to perceived improvements in status and power and promises of financial gain by joining violent extremist groups.

Funding will be available for grants of up to three years in duration and commencing in 2019 on a rolling basis. GCERF will provide grants to individual organisations or consortia working at community level. Each consortium should be led by a Principal Recipient responsible for providing sub-grants to other consortium members. Priority will be given to organisations with proven successful PVE experience.

Criteria

Prerequisites
- Appropriate legal registration.
- Willingness to accept and fulfil the role of a Principal Recipient (as described herein).
Required Capabilities
- Established relationships and credibility with the communities and population groups identified in the Call, in the geographical areas also identified in the Call.
- Experience and capacity in programme design and management, and project cycle management.
- Experience and capacity in financial management and in the management of and accounting for international donor grant funding.
- Experience and capacity in working within a consortium and/or managing sub-recipients for those choosing to form a consortium.
- Experience and capacity in community-level initiatives that address the local drivers of violent extremism and strengthen resilience against violent extremist agendas.