Deadline: 11-Jun-21
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) invites applications/proposals from registered Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the Karamoja Region and have experience with land laws and land user rights and how they apply to the Karamoja region, particularly focusing on the project area of the Fostering Sustainability and Resilience for Food Security in the Karamoja Region.
This call for proposals is meant create awareness on land user rights and responsibilities, to ensure that community action enhance ecosystem services, adopt sustainable land management practices, and make it possible for achievement of sustainable food security in the Karamoja Region.
Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), is implementing a GEF-funded 5-year project entitled “Fostering Sustainability and Resilience for food Security in the Karamoja Region”, with technical and financial support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Overall, the project intends to enhance resilience of communities and ecosystems to climate change and improve food security through addressing environmental drivers of food insecurity.
Objective
- The main objective of this assignment is to create awareness on land use rights, access and ownership and the associated responsibilities that affect land productivity, food security and equity at community level. As such, this assignment has implications to restoration of ecosystem services, maintenance of forest cover and biodiversity, land use and conservation, implementation of erosion control techniques, sustainable livelihoods and availability of approaches for achieving gender equality and leaving no-one behind.
Priorities
Priority will be given to proposals that will describe how the NGO will engage with communities to:
- Create awareness on their rights of access, use and control of land resources; their responsibilities regarding Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM), and equitable food security assurance.
- Contribute to reversal of land degradation, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and a reduction of climate change emissions.
Scope of Services, Expected Outputs and Target Completion
The assignment will focus on:
- Documenting the current situation with respect to awareness of land users on their rights to access, use and control of land resources and their responsibilities regarding INRM and Land Degradation Management, the common land user conflicts, their causes, effects on community food security status and the existing means of resolving the conflicts.
- Creating awareness on the land rights to the users (based on the land tenure systems and operational laws for that region), the issues raised during land use planning sessions, and those s raised by the communities, technical and policy makers.
- Developing recommendations that will inform policy and sub-national actors and planners on the appropriate actions that will enhance sustainable INRM/SLM for improved land productivity.
- Enhancing project gender results through evaluating the multiple returns of reduced gender inequalities/inequity/imbalances in different community engagements focusing on food production.
Outcomes
- Outcome 1 focuses on strengthening the enabling policy and institutional frameworks through the creation of multi-stakeholder platforms that will enable better planning, including local landscape-based planning.
- Outcome 2 will channel investments into the food production systems and value chains using a Farmer Field School approach adapted to the realities of the agro-pastoral societies of Karamoja.
Duration of the Work
- The intervention will be implemented in a period of 3 months commencing immediately upon signature of contract. The successful organization is expected to adhere to the specified dates as this will feed into the UNDP planning in line with the GEF reporting schedule.
Location of Work
- Services shall be delivered to selected districts of Karamoja Region of Uganda. The service provider will be required to be present in the districts during the implementation of activities.
Qualifications of the Successful Service Provider
The following are the required qualifications of the prospective organization:
- Must be legally registered and authorized to operate in Uganda.
- Established with capacity to operate in the selected districts of Karamoja Region.
- Experience in delivering assignments related to land rights in different geographical regions
- Entity has vast experience providing capacity building and development services to rural communities including having provided such services
- Ability of the contracted organization to create capacity support synergies within the sub region is an advantage.
- A team of technical experts and support staff that can be dedicated by the organization to the implementation of the required intervention: the Technical experts (at least 2), one of them will be the team leader and they shall include:
- Team leader: Minimum of Advanced Degree in Development studies, with experience working with the land law.
- Natural Resource Management Officer: Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in NRM with possession of skills to deliver professional support for community empowerment for food security.
- Support staff with skills in accounting and at least two years working experience in supporting assignment of similar nature and magnitude.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=78606