Deadline: 11-Jul-22
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is pleased to launch a call for proposals under the digital, inclusive, accessible: support to digitalisation of public services in Ukraine project.
This Call for Proposals (CfP) is administered by the UNDP Digital, Inclusive, Accessible: Support to Digitalisation of Public Services in Ukraine (DIA Support Project), which is part of the UNDP Ukraine Democratic Governance Portfolio.
Objectives
The DIA Support Project aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Government institutions have the knowledge and skills to design and implement policies to digitalise citizen-oriented services in line with principles of the Human Rights Based Approach and gender mainstreaming;
- Client-centred digital service packages are built around life situations in a participatory and gender-responsive manner;
- Ukrainian women and men know more about the digital and mobile-based services available to them and use these services more to meet their needs.
Funding Information
The maximum co-funding from UNDP shall not exceed 48,000 USD.
Eligible Activities
The grant competition is aimed at conducting a regional educational tour in support of the existing network of libraries-Digital Education Hubs, in order to increase offline access to digital skills acquisition by vulnerable groups, including the elderly, and people without their own devices with Internet access. Tasks of this initiative include:
- Training and enhancing the skills of librarians in digital literacy and the ability to teach library users digital skills.
- Increasing the sustainability of Digital Education Hubs through the development and dissemination of the methodological manual/guidelines for the effective bureaucratic documentation of such library activities and enhancing the ability of librarians to transform libraries into Digital Education Hubs.
- Direct training of the representatives of vulnerable groups in digital skills, particularly in order to increase the ability to use electronic state services.
- Establishing a channel of communication between the MDT and the target groups to test communication materials, service reengineering hypotheses, and receive feedback from digital skills receivers.
Eligibility Criteria
The proposals coming in for the Project’s consideration will be initially measured against the admission criteria. To be considered for funding, the proposal must be submitted by an organisation that:
- has a status of a non-governmental public or charitable organisation or an association of CSOs officially registered in Ukraine;
- has a track record of active operation of at least five years;
- has a proven track record of cooperation with the international donor community, proper project implementation and reporting.
- The CfP will not accept proposals from for-profit entities, political parties, state authorities, local governments, faith-based organisations or religious communities, as well as from private individuals and entrepreneurs.
- The parameters that will determine whether a CSO is eligible to be considered for UNDP funding will be assessed on the Capacity Assessment Checklist (CACHE). In case of a coalition-based application, only the core applicant will be verified against CACHE.
Considerations
The proposals shall include/respond to the following considerations:
- The proposed approach should cover all Ukraine’s territories which are under governmental control;
- The process should offer comprehensive solution and be generally in line with the Human Rights Based Approach (principles of “accountability”, “participation and inclusion”, “equality and non-discrimination”) and be mindful and inclusive of gender equality and equity;
- Considering the objectives, the project should include the following elements:
- creation of a comprehensive methodological manual for the transformation of a typical public library into a Digital education hub, which would be based on the results of the strategic session supported by the DIA Support Project in December 2021 (structure is in attached files), expected number of pages – at least 50;
- conduction of the online training for trainers for representatives of regional training centres for librarians (RTC) (2 from each of the 24 oblasts);
- provision of expert and organizational support to training for librarians – coordinators of Digital Education Hubs (at least 120 people all over Ukraine, with their further commitment to conduct at least one digital literacy education event). Chosen civil society partner will be responsible for the organization of methodological, educational, informational content of this stage of the grant, while DIA Support Project takes the obligation to organize logistics of the training of the Hubs’ coordinators;
- Provide support to educational activities by the trained librarians in their Hubs (each Hub should conduct at least one event);
- Create and maintain a feedback loop with the Hub coordinators and those receiving the digital skills training.
- As the results of the proposed initiative, Hubs will increase their capacity for educational activities in the field of digital literacy and creation of opportunities in the sphere of participatory and inclusive digital transformation.
For more information, visit https://www.undp.org/ukraine/news/call-grant-proposals-under-digital-inclusive-accessible-support-digitalisation-public-services-ukraine-project