Deadline: 4-Jan-22
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking an NGO/CSO as responsible party that will manage the Small Grants Programme (SGP) on the issues of community development and security initiatives, social cohesion, social integration, conflict prevention and peacebuilding, gender equality and GBV prevention, community policing, access to justice, promotion of participatory budgets, civil society peer-to-peer support programmes, CSO mentoring system, inter-municipal cooperation, support to women-led CSOs.
The funding for this Small Grants Programme will be provided with support from the European Union. The Responsible Party will administer SGP in the target hromadas, provide support and ensure implementation process for provision on a competitive basis of small grants to local NGO-grantees in Donetsk (government controlled areas – GCAs), Luhansk (government-controlled areas – GCAs), Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts.
The overall objective of this assignment is to establish a competitive mechanism and manage the process of allocation of small grants to on the issues of community development and security initiatives, social cohesion, social integration, conflict prevention and peacebuilding, gender equality and GBV prevention, community policing, access to justice, promotion of participatory budgets, civil society peer-to-peer support programmes, CSO mentoring system, inter-municipal cooperation, support to women-led CSOs in the target hromadas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts.
Priorities
The Programme’s interventions are grouped under the following key Programme components, which reflect the region’s priority needs:
- Economic Recovery and Restoration of Critical Infrastructure
- Local Governance and Decentralisation Reform
- Community Security and Social Cohesion (CSSC).
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is USD 531,300.00.
- Small Grants Fund should be equal to USD 462,000.00 and cannot be changed while administration and management services costs should be less or equal to USD 69,300.00.
- The duration of proposed activities should not exceed the period of ten and a half (10.5) months. The anticipated implementation period is February 2022 – December 10, 2022.
Final Beneficiaries
NGOs/CSOs registered and implementing projects on the issues of community development and security initiatives, social cohesion, social integration, conflict prevention and peacebuilding, gender equality and GBV prevention, community policing, access to justice, promotion of participatory budgets, civil society peer-to-peer support programmes, CSO mentoring system, inter-municipal cooperation, support to women-led CSOs in the target hromadas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts.
Eligibility Criteria
Interested NGOs/CSOs must meet the following criteria to be eligible for the selection:
- Officially and duly registered non-profit organization for at least three years (as NGO, charity foundation or other form of civil society organization including non-profit and non-governmental organizations);
- Experience in providing grants and/or management of grant programs (at least three programs with at least 60 recipients in total);
- Experience in project implementation or execution of contracts for provision of professional services in the area of grant programs management with a total budget of grant funds pool from USD 350,000.00;
- Legal status of the organization should enable it to:
- receive funds from UNDP grant pool without the Responsible Party’s tax liability incurred; and
- transfer funds to grantees without incurring tax liabilities of the grantees in connection with the grant funds received.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=86714