Deadline: 15 May 2020
The UNDP’s Recovery Facility is designed to ensure the linkages of immediate humanitarian efforts with longer term sustainable development. Within the UNDP’s recovery approach, emergency employment and immediate livelihood recovery projects aim to provide jobs and livelihoods for the affected population.
Under RF, UNDP seeks the partnership of up to 18 organizations to implement projects in the most affected communities by the cyclones in Sofala (Beira, Dondo, Nhamatanda, Buzi and Chibabava); Cabo Delgado (Pemba and Metuge), all of which may or may not be interlinked, in order to harness the organizations’ specific expertise.
UNDP Recovery Facility (RF) is a new and innovative programme that helps fast track recovery and build resilience following the devastation unleashed by both Cyclone Idai and Kenneth. The main pillars of this programme are:
- Livelihood and Women Economic Empowerment;
- Housing and Community Infrastructure;
- Institutional Strengthening of the Reconstruction Cabinet.
UNDP is implementing its RF through an integrated approach, balancing early recovery and resilience building. The Recovery Facility is mostly focused on enabling the restoration of livelihoods while building community resilience against future disasters and ensuring that gender equality and equity is kept in the process. The RF programme includes the rehabilitation of crop and livestock production, the improvement of water resources for people and livestock, construction of schools, health and nutrition centers and introduction of income-generating activities to support people.
The activities should range from the farming sector to local economic recovery and community driven recovery actions, including the development of local human capacity (i.e. skills training), access to finance (e.g. local savings and micro-loans schemes), market based economic activities and value chains. Eventually, sustainable employment creation through the promotion of such activities can be a foundation of long-term recovery.
Objectives
- To develop and implement, through a community driven mechanism, recovery activities targeting resilient livelihood and sustainable economic recovery with focus on income generation activities and disaster risk reduction actions.
- To promote livelihoods/income generation activities that contribute to increased food and nutritional security and household income;
- To strengthen and/or develop various household income generation skills and self-employment;
- To establish and promote savings as an alternative to save money and guarantee credit;
- To create or develop a green business and disaster risk reduction entrepreneurial initiatives;
- To promote diversity, social inclusion, solidarity, citizenship and environment.
Overall objective is to enable the restoration of livelihoods while building community resilience against future disasters and ensuring gender equality and women’s economic empowerment are adequately addressed.
Expected Results and Deliverables
- Number of target households to be involved;
- 100% of the beneficiaries must receive equal support and assistance;
- 100% of record and documentation of all assistance provided to each beneficiary;
- 100% of all the weekly and monthly reports delivered and well-informed.
- 100% of reports shall be made in accordance with indicators stablished in the beginning of project between UNDP and the selected implementing organization.
Timeframe
Interventions should be implemented from June to December 2020. There should be a clear strategy from the start and outcomes should be self-sustained after the end of the project.
Target Groups
The main objective of the intervention will be to increase the resilience of the most affected households by Cyclone Idai and Kenneth. Although the impact of the cyclone is widespread in affected areas, there are particular social groups identified in PDNA that demonstrate especially high levels of vulnerability, calling attention for necessary considerations for their recovery:
Priorities
The following cross-cutting priorities will be considered by UNDP in this selection process and during the program implementation and follow-ups:
- Sustainability: A market development approach is preferred since it is seen as key for long-term economic sustainability. Market development approach should be structured in such a manner that enables both men and women to participate;
- Gender equality: The intervention should 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 suitable to female beneficiaries’ specific abilities;
- Environment and climate change integration: Mitigation of negative impacts on the environment and climate change should be considered, as well as optimization of positive environmental and climate change impacts that consider differentiated impact for women and men. This priority also includes efficient and resilient energy management throughout proposed activities, such as ones that include agri-food system from production to consumption;
- Ownership: The intervention should be planned and implemented in close dialogue and coordination with beneficiaries’ communities, local authorities, and other relevant stakeholders in order to create ownership, synergies and to optimize the overall results.
- Results-based management: Another key aspect is the design of a solid Result-Based Management (RBM) system along with an organizational structure that permits continuous implementation and adjustments when needed;
- Value for money: Value for money should be one of the dimensions, with an emphasis on cost effectiveness, efficiency and complementarity with other interventions in the UNDP-RF program.
Evaluation Criteria
- Sound technical proposal that includes innovative and replicable inclusion mechanisms to maximize the value transfer to the beneficiaries.
- High impact interventions directly targeting and responding to the needs established in the ToR.
- Size of budget requested commensurate with the organization’s proven administrative and financial management capacity.
- Participatory monitoring and evaluation that will contribute to building a sense of ownership among the beneficiaries to promote the sustainability of the interventions.
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