Deadline: 10-Feb-23
The Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB) is inviting proposals for the Youth Innovation and Capacity Building Grantee for the Safe and Sound Cities Programme (S2CITIES) in Ambato, Ecuador.
The Safe and Sound Cities Programme (S²Cities) is an initiative proudly led by GIB, hosted by the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, and with the support of Fondation Botnar. This global programme aims to improve the safety and wellbeing of young people in urban environments in secondary cities in the Global South.
Purpose
- As programme lead, GIB is looking for a grantee experienced in youth engagement, capacity building, innovation engine processes and complex problem-solving on urban safety and security issues, to award a grant for the implementation of the components and activities.
Objectives
- The overall objectives of the assignment are:
- To ensure alignment with the strategy and framework of the S²City Programme and Fondation Botnar’s principles.
- To empower young people though the programme’s activities.
- To ensure that young people themselves and youth engagement processes are embedded at programme and local level, providing technical support as necessary to programme lead, programme partners and partner grantees.
- To make meaningful connections and links between young people and key public and private sector actors to ensure young people are heard.
- To consistently cooperate, collaborate and align efforts with the relevant local and global partners to successfully implement all project components
Scope of Works
- The Youth Innovation and Capacity Building grantee is expected to perform as lead, facilitator and support of the core activities of the programme in Ambato, Ecuador. The objectives and activities that the grantee is expected to fulfil make up three different components of the overall programme.
- The local grantee will lead the activities outlined under Component 1: Building System Understanding; Component 2: Capacity Building and Bridge-Building and Component 3: Innovation and Youth Driven Action in order to achieve to objectives defined for each component (as per the linked workplan). All of the local grantee’s activities must have a strong focus on youth participation and placemaking, or community planning. The grantee must aim to bring young people, local government officials and other relevant urban actors in the respective city together to co-create and innovate on solutions or interventions to create safer urban environments for young people.
Programme Component
- Programme Component 1: Building system understanding
- Programme Component 2: Capacity Building and Bridge Building
- Programme Component 3: Innovation and Youth-Driven Action
Funding Information
- Total Funding available CHF 160,000
- Duration: This grant will be awarded for a period of approximately 12-13 months – depending on date of signature of the agreement, with an end date on 15 March 2024.
Eligible Activities
- Communication and coordination: Manage all internal and external communication with key partners (e.g. program sub-partners/grantees, program lead, young people, NGOs, youth organizations, public and private sector) and the general public. Communication tasks include but are not limited to: dissemination of highlights and learnings through social media and otherwise for the purposes of the youth innovation hub.
- Participate in capacity building offered by GIB in topics of placemaking, youth engagement, risk management, iMEL, and other opportunities
- Participate in the global learning network and convening (organised by GIB)
- Be responsible for ensuring and embedding the engagement of young people throughout the overall programme and design and establishment of the Youth Innovation Incubator.
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants that meet the required criteria outlined in this RFP and accompanying TOR are invited to apply (entities or organization that applied to the RFPs for Cuenca, Ecuador and/or Baguio, the Philippines are welcome to apply to the present RFP, provided they meet the required qualifications and experience).
- Organisations submitting a proposal should not have been involved in the preparation of this RFP.
- All applicants should disclose any possible conflict of interest at the time of application. Examples of when a conflict of interest exists includes when the applicant holds a personal relationship with a GIB employee (or a member of their immediate family), a member of the GIB Board or an associate who could benefit directly, financially or otherwise, from the selection of the applicant.
- GIB expects all its partners to adhere to the highest moral, ethical conduct and transparency standards. If selected, the applicant acknowledges and accepts the commits to complying with these requirements.
Required qualifications and experience
- Proven track record and competency in working with or engaging young people and youth organisations, preferably on topics of urban safety and security.
- Proven track record and competency in developing and managing innovation hubs/accelerators/processes or similar, including mobilisation of the target audience, dissemination, running of events at the incubator, follow-up, etc.
- Experience in helping youth and/or other organisations conduct complex problem-solving to identify strategic ideas and develop them into implementable solutions.
- Experience preparing and conducting capacity building workshops and activities to audiences of diverse backgrounds.
- Expertise in systems thinking and participatory processes.
- Expertise on urban planning and familiarity with placemaking approaches.
- Experience bringing various urban stakeholders, including local governments, social organisations, young people, private entities together and facilitating dialogues as well as consensus building.
- Demonstrate creative, innovative thinking, inspired by flexibility, adaptability, efficiency, open-mindedness and out-of-the box thinking.
- Ground experience and networks (including youth organisations, academic institutions, and other young people networks) in the selected cities/countries on the topics of interest. Organisations that can demonstrate strong links with the public, private sector and at least one youth-led organisation will be preferred.
- Knowledge and experience in monitoring, evaluating and learning.
- Experience working, coordinating with and being accountable to multiple partners at the local, national, global levels.
- Proficiency in using technology, social media and other innovative solutions to facilitate urban stakeholder engagement processes that can be done either remotely or in-person is a requirement.
- A strong local presence in the countries and cities of at least the majority of the team is a requirement. Preferably based in the Global South (i.e. organisations based in developing countries and in the regions of Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania).
- Proficiency in English, as well as the official languages of the selected cities/countries (Spanish, Filipino), is a requirement.
- We strongly encourage involving a team with communication skills (social media, etc.) to support disseminating and communicating about the programme locally and globally.
- The organisation should be able to demonstrate all the requirements. Organisations are free to partner with other organisations as a consortium and/or to subcontract part of the activities under these RFPs.
For more information, visit GIB.