UNDP announces Call for Proposals for Small Grants – South Sudan

Deadline: 09-Oct-20

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is requesting proposals from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including NGOs and/or CBOs for its Access to Justice, Security and Human Rights strengthening programme (2020-2023) that aims at improving the linkages between rule of law actors and communities through different activities including awareness raising, capacity building and community policing through Police Community Relations Committees (PCRCs) meetings and community outreach activities.

UNDP seeks to issue grants to expand community involvement in local security arrangements the participation of youth, women, minority groups such as IDPs. Measures will be taken to establish PCRCS and facilitate the holding of monthly PCRC meetings and training of police and community members to strengthen the functioning of 4 PCRCs in at least two Payam in Yei, Terekeka, Rumbek, and KuajoK-Gogrial for 12 months.

Objective

• The objective of the Grants mechanism is to enhance local community security and support building trust and confidence between the police and the community with special focus on women and girls.

Funding Information

• A grant not exceeding US$ 20,000 in each location will be made to the organization in one tranche for smooth operations.
• The funds will be disbursed within two weeks after signing of the grant agreement.

Scope of Work

Local NGOs/CBOs are requested to submit a proposal in one or two of the locations below:

• Yei;
• Terekeka
• Rumbek
• Kuajok-Gogrial

Structure of Proposals

Some innovative ideas, supporting sustainability to be noted by applicants are:

• The   proposals   should   be   realistic,   well-structured   and   address   the   problems stated in the background of the proposal;
• The   proposals   should   be   consistent   with   the   organizational   mandate   and objectives of the local NGOs/CBOs and professional skills and work experience of its staff;
• Roles and responsibilities of all staff and partner organizations should be clearly spelled out including planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation;
• The   proposals   should   include  monitoring   /evaluation   /analysis   and   learning (Lesson Learned) as well as realistic monitoring and evaluation plans capturing especially the impact on the targeted groups.
• The   budget   should   be   well   structured,   realistic   and   aligned   to   the   expected results.

Eligibility Criteria

Interested parties must submit a proposal along with the following documents:

• Proof of registration as a non-governmental/non-commercial organization including copies of registration certificate and constitution or another governing document.
• Organizational profile with the following details:
  • A clearly defined management structure;
  • Experience and expertise in training and capacity building;
  • Knowledge of international human rights norms and experience of working on human rights and protection issues
  • Work experience in South Sudan or in post conflict situations of at least two years prior to the application;
  • Details of the local partners if application is made jointly by two or more local NGOs/CBOs.
  • A member of NGO forum South Sudan
• Curriculum vitae of two key staff members involved in the implementation of the Project.

• Grant Appraisal Committee formed by UNDP selects projects proposals based on an evaluation criterion and recommends them for funding;
• UNDP Access to Justice Security and Human Rights programme forms a short list of local NGOs/CBOs whose projects have been recommended for funding by the Grant Appraisal Committee;
• UNDP Access to Justice, Security and Human Rights Programme assesses the organizational capacity of the short-listed local NGOs/CBOs, i.e. their capacity to achieve project results, and ensure the appropriate use of fund in compliance with the UNDP procedures. The local NGOs/CBO’s organizational capacity assessment methods are based on the standard UNDP  local NGOs/CBOs  capacity assessment instrument, and may include visits to potential grantees telephone   interviews  reference checks on potential grantees analysis of information on potential grantees available from other sources;
• Based on the results of the short-listed local NGOs/CBOs’ capacity assessment, UNDP Access to Justice and Rule of Law project submits the list of local NGOs/CBOs recommended for funding that have required capacity to the UNDP Access to Justice and Rule of Law Project Manager for clearance;
• UNDP Project Manager for the Access to Justice, Security and Human Rights program clears the list of  local NGOs/CBOs projects recommended for funding submits it to UNDP South Sudan Deputy Resident Representative (Programmes/operations) for approval;
• UNDP South Sudan Deputy Resident Representative (Programmes Operations) approves the final   list of local NGOs/CBOs projects recommended for funding;
• UNDP concludes grant agreements with the local NGOs/CBOs approved by UNDP South Sudan Deputy   Resident Representative (Programmes/operations).

For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=70947