Deadline: 15-Mar-2024
UNDP has announced call for grant proposals administered by the UNDP Digital, Inclusive, Accessible: Support to Digitalisation of Public Services in Ukraine (DIA Support Phase 2 Project), which is part of the UNDP Ukraine Democratic Governance Portfolio.
DIA Support Phase 2 Project is implemented with funding provided by the Government of Sweden and in close cooperation with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (MDT). The three-year intervention builds on many years of UNDP Ukraine’s experience in two tracks: administrative service reform and re-engineering and digitalisation of processes in public administration – including through participatory methods of citizen and expert engagement. Also, this project is a new iteration of the DIA Support Project that was successfully implemented in 2021-2023 and has contributed to the development of 40 digital services and tools which were used by 21 million Ukrainians, significant capacity building of public servants, and strengthening capacity of the digital literacy hubs coordinators in pilot regions.
The DIA Support Phase 2 Project aims to achieve the following goals:
- Empowering Government Institutions: Equipping government bodies with the knowledge and skills needed to design and implement policies. These policies aim to digitalize services for citizens, aligning with the Human Rights Based Approach principles and incorporating gender mainstreaming.
- Creating Human-Centered Digital Services: Developing digital service packages that cater to real-life situations. These services are crafted in a participatory manner, ensuring they are gender-responsive at every step.
- Increasing Digital Literacy and Usage: Ensuring that Ukrainian citizens, both women and men, are well-informed about and are able to use the digital and mobile-based services available to them.
Objectives of the competition
- The grant competition is aimed at conducting a series of trainings for administrators 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.
Funding Information
- The maximum co-funding from UNDP shall not exceed 63,000 USD.
- Eligible costs must:
- be necessary for carrying out the project activities;
- have been incurred by the applicant during the implementation period;
- comply with the principles of sound financial management, in particular, value for money and cost-effectiveness;
- be adequately recorded, identifiable and verifiable, and be backed by original supporting documents.
- Grant costs may only be used to cover the following expenses:
- staff salaries and expert fees;
- communication and information services;
- purchase of consultative services and contracts if these are essential to project goals and objectives;
- renting, catering, and other services envisaged by the project activities;
- printing and copying;
- utility services;
- consumables and supplies;
- travel costs (if travel complies with internal UNDP regulations);
- Not more than 10% of the grant funds may be spent for purchasing equipment, provided a clear justification is offered as to its need to achieve project goals.
- The following costs are ineligible:
- costs of project proposal preparation;
- academic research;
- debts;
- currency exchange losses.
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.
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