Deadline: 25-May-23
Amkeni Wakenya invites interested and eligible non-state actors including NGOs, FBOs, Academic Institutions, CBOs to submit proposals for award of grants in a programme entitled “Enhanced Access to Justice for the Poor and Marginalised Communities”.
The project is to be implemented in Five urban counties of Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret, Mombasa and Nairobi well as Seven rural counties of Isiolo, Wajir, Mandera, Garissa, Lamu, Tana River, and Marsabit counties.
With the significant progress achieved during the first phase of PLEAD, the European Union extended the PLEAD programme to the second phase which will be implemented jointly by UNODC and UNDP. The UNDP implemented component of PLEADII will be through Amkeni Wakenya focusing on
- the rising and unmet needs for access to justice and legal aid
- corruption and anti-corruption as a hindrance to access to justice
- partnership with County Governments to provide legal awareness and assistance
- community social justice centers as a mechanisms for provision of legal aid at the grassroots
- underappreciated role of tribunals as first line of access to justice
- opportunity for expanding spaces for/ rolling out the Alternative Justice Systems Policy. It is under this support that UNDP hereby calls for proposals from civil society organisations (CSOs) working in the aforementioned thematic area.
Thematic Focus of this Call for Proposals
- The interventions in the proposals will be supported through award of grants. There will be three lots of awards distributed as follows.
- Lot one: Enhanced access to justice for the poor and marginalised communities in five urban counties of Kisumu, Nakuru,Uasin-Gishu,Mombasa and Nairobi. Two grants will be awarded per year to each of the five urban counties over a two-year period.
- Lot two: Enhanced access to justice for the poor and marginalised communities in seven rural counties of Isiolo, Wajir, Mandera, Garissa, Lamu, Tana River and Marsabit. Two grants will be awarded per year to each of the seven rural counties over a two-year period.
- Lot three: One grant will be issued to a national CSO competitively to strengthen paralegal self-regulation. This is in line with the PBO Act of 2013 which support sself-regulation by the CSOs.
In addition to the results highlighted and in line with UNDP programming principles, interventions selected under this CfP will ensure sustainability and leaving no one behind by:
- Enhancing institutional and technical capacity of PLEAD Implementing Stakeholders
- Empowering marginalized groups through concrete actions
- Mainstreaming gender and human rights
- Improving networking and peer learning among CSOs.
Interventions
- Further interventions to specific target groups include but not limited to;
- Children in conflict with the law
- Strengthening and establishing child protection structures which could include rescue centres, gender recovery centres, Ideal police gender & children’s desks, specialized/child friendly courts for children and community resource centres.
- Legal aid provision to children in conflict with the law through plea bargaining, diversion, legal representation and case follow-ups as well as provision psycho-social support to the child-victims/survivors of abuse/violence
- Supporting the rehabilitation and reintegration of children into society, with a view to preventing reoffending and promoting positive behaviour, in partnership with the ODPP, supporting implementation of diversion policy.
- Women and Youth
- Provision of legal awareness to women and youth an integrating AJS and gender justice through training of Community based governance structures on the NaSCI AJS policy.
- Provision of psychosocial support to widows/women/victims of sexual and gender-based violence as well as creating women safe spaces, that utilize women’s unique position in families, local communities and national context.
- Forging partnerships with the International Association of Women Judges & the Office of the Chief Justice to support the judiciary to establish more specialized SGBV courts within the other counties nationally.
- PWDS
- Creating awareness against the discrimination of PWDs as well as supporting PWDs participation and mainstreaming PWDs perspectives/capacity in decision making processes related to social, economic and environmental justice as well as in social, economic and environmental justice processes
- Designing and developing disability-specific services that cater to the needs of persons with disabilities can help bridge the gap between the justice system and PWDs.
- Capacity building to duty-bearers on disability-specific training in recognizing and accommodating different disabilities, as well as how to respond to incidents involving persons with disabilities to ensure that they are better equipped to communicate and interact with persons with disabilities.
- Victims of Sexual Based Violence
- Overcoming legal disadvantage for vulnerable groups including survivors of SGBV require targeted legal empowerment policies and programs. As such specialized coordinated interventions shall be required to, provide not only access to justice but an enabling framework to facilitate the much-needed essential support services to persons in vulnerable situations which include but not limited to the following;
- Supporting review, development and implementation of frameworks, policies and legislation on facilitating access to justice for vulnerable groups including sexual and gender-based violence
- Development and implementation of coordinated trainings for targeted partner institutions on sexual and gender-based violence including vulnerable groups.
- Support towards coordinated operationalization of specialized institutional interventions for vulnerable persons including sexual and gender-based courts.
- Children in conflict with the law
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this CFP is KES95,000,000 is the table that shows the allocation for each LOT.
- Lot I-Projects that promote legal aid and awareness for the marginalisedcommunities in urban counties: KES50,000,000
- Lot II-Projects that promote legal aid and awareness for marginalised communities in rural counties: KES42,000,000
- Lot three: One grant will be issued to a national CSO competitively to strengthen paralegal self-regulation mechanism. This is in line with the PBO Act of 2013 which supports self-regulation by the CSOs: KES3,000,000.
- Duration: The planned duration of a project is a maximum of 12 months.
Geographic Scope
- Lot I and Lot II targets non-state actors in the five (5) urban counties and seven (7) rural counties (marginal) respectively with grants to support legal aid delivery. The five (5) urban counties are Kisumu, Nakuru, Uasin-Gishu, Mombasa and Nairobi while the seven (7) ruralcounties are Isiolo, Wajir, Mandera, Garissa, Lamu, Tana River and Marsabit.
- Lot III will target national level CSOs which will support formulation of CSO self-regulation frameworks both at the National and the County Levels.
Location:
- Projects should take place only in Kenya and in the targeted counties with evidence of physical presence in the target counties, (Kisumu, Nakuru, Uasin-Gishu, Mombasa and NairobiIsiolo, Wajir, Mandera, Garissa, Lamu, Tana River and Marsabit).
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for a grant, applicants must:
- Have legal personality.
- Be a non-profit making entity.
- Be a Non-State Actor (NSA)registered as a CBO/NGO in Kenya for a minimum period of not less than two (2) years under the relevant laws of Kenya.
- Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the projects with their beneficiaries, not acting as an intermediary/ nor sub-granting.
- Demonstrate solid prior experience of at least twoyearscarrying out activities in the thematic area covered under this call for proposals.
- The NSA should be located in the 12 targeted counties.
- CBOs/NGOs who have NOT been supported by UNDP through grantspreviously are highly encouraged to apply.
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