Deadline: 24-Feb-23
The UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons has launched its Sub-grant Programme 1 of the seventh Call for Proposals to provide essential humanitarian, legal and financial aid to victims of trafficking in persons through established channels of assistance.
The UNVTF is managed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and benefits from the strategic guidance and expertise of a five-member Board of Trustees, appointed by the UN Secretary-General for a three-year term. Since its inception in 2010, the UNVTF has awarded over USD 6 million in grants to more than 145 NGO projects in over 60 countries.
Objectives
- This Call for Proposals takes into consideration the importance of harnessing all available resources towards the implementation of activities aimed at meeting the objectives of this Grants programme.
- The main objectives of this Grants programme are:
- To provide direct assistance and protection to vulnerable victims of trafficking in persons
- To improve health and well-being, facilitate social integration and prevent re-trafficking amongst vulnerable victims of trafficking in persons
Thematic Focus and Priority Issues
- This Call for Proposals seeks to provide funding support to not-for-profit organisations working in the area of trafficking in persons whose projects are aimed at providing immediate and essential direct assistance for vulnerable victims of trafficking in persons.
- Priority shall be given to projects that target the following population:
- Women and Children
- Priority shall be given to projects that adapt programmes or design interventions:
- To reach those most left behind, including underserved groups especially excluded or disadvantaged victims of human trafficking (such as persons with disabilities, LGBTQI, internally displaced and refugees, indigenous, older and members of ethnic minorities).
- Priority will be given to projects tackling human trafficking in the following regions:
- Conflict areas of Eastern Europe affected by the displacement of people due to the ongoing conflict;
- Human trafficking in corridors between areas of:
- South America and Central America/ the Caribbean;
- Sub-Saharan Africa and Western & Southern Europe;
- Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa;
- South Asia and the Middle East;
- South Asia and Western & Southern Europe; and
- South-East Asia.
- Priority shall be given to projects that target persons identified in the following situations:
- Persons identified among large movements of refugees and/or migrants, including internally displaced persons where conflict, post-conflict and continued instability caused by sociopolitical tensions or a breakdown of law and order.
- Persons identified in or fleeing areas that has been affected by the spill-over of climate change related displacement.
- Priority shall be given to projects that target the following forms of exploitation:
- Sexual exploitation
- Forced labour
- Organ removal
- Forced begging
- Forced criminal activity
- Forced marriage
- Production of pornographic material
- Recruitment of children into armed groups
- child trafficking in sport
- Activities that will be given priority include:
- Medical assistance
- Material assistance in the form of food, clothing etc.
- Immediate, safe and short-term shelter
- Legal advice and representation aimed at securing legal status and/or remedies
- Psychosocial assistance
- Education and/or vocational training
- Assistance with family reunification and/or repatriation with full consent of the victim.
Funding Information
- Proposals with budgets up to USD 20,000 will be considered for award. Please note that value for money will be assessed as a part of the rating criteria.
- Duration: All activities financed by this sub-programme must be implemented up to 9 months.
Fundamental Principles
- Grant applicants are expected to consider the following fundamental principles in designing their grant project proposals:
- The UN Voluntary Trust Fund supports initiatives based on the following principles:
- Human rights-based approaches that place paramount priority on promoting, protecting and fulfilling the human rights of all victims of human trafficking. A human rights-based approach requires developing the capacities of ‘duty-bearers’ and ‘rights holders.
- Operating under ethical guidelines that ensure interventions and services prioritize and guarantee victims’ rights to safety and security, confidentiality and privacy, expression of opinion and autonomy to make decisions.
- Ensuring gender responsiveness and transformative approaches that seek to create or strengthen equitable gender norms.
- Employing culturally appropriate measures through interventions that identify culturally relevant strategic entry points and institutions, and involve cultural, community, faith-based and other leaders.
- Addressing specific forms and settings of human trafficking through interventions based on a clear understanding on the specific context in which trafficking takes place for effective programme design and implementation, with knowledge about specific forms, settings and population groups affected.
- Working in partnership with different stakeholders, such as government, civil society and community-based groups, academic and research institutions; and importantly, victims and victim-led organizations.
- Ensuring victim-centered and empowering approaches that integrate victims’ own experiences and input within all initiatives and strategies as an essential part of successful programming.
- Drawing on existing evidence through interventions that are designed based on the existing knowledge of “what works” (or doesn’t) to respond to and prevent human trafficking, drawn from formal evaluations and assessments, research and studies, expert consensus and recommendations, shared practitioner experiences and – importantly – the feedback of victims, and population at risk.
- Alignment with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- Proposals must be based on a sound problem analysis, needs-based, results focused with a clear theory of change, risk-informed and sustainable and resilience-oriented.
- The UN Voluntary Trust Fund supports initiatives based on the following principles:
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible for a grant, applicants must:
- Be a non-profit making organisation (CSOs including NGOs, CBOs) registered under the relevant Laws of the country where it is registered and in the country where it will be implementing the proposed project;
- Have been registered by 1 January 2021;
- Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the project, i.e. not acting as an intermediary;
- Demonstrate prior experience of at least two (2) year implementing activities in the area of direct assistance to victims of trafficking in persons in line with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime or in providing other services to vulnerable populations including IDPs and forcibly displaced persons;
- Complete registration 2 in the UN Partner Portal (UNPP) at secure a valid UNPP Partner ID;
- Have a bank account in the organisation’s name;
- Confirm that the organisation takes appropriate measures to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse and signs the Partner declaration form.
For more information, visit UNODC.