Deadline: 24-Aug-22
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is pleased to launch a call for proposals to Support CBOs/NGOs for their contribution to environmental protection and local development through local initiatives under the Small Grant Program for the Seventh Operational Phase of the GEF Microfinance Program.
Objectives
- The allocations must allow submitting organizations to contribute to initiatives that will:
- Contribute to environmental protection in at least one of the following areas
- Collective safeguarding of terrestrial and marine sites,
- Climate-smart and innovative agro-ecology,
- Co-benefit of access to low-carbon energy sources,
- Local, National and Global Chemicals Management Coalition
- These initiatives should include provisions for:
- Put in place a support mechanism for local authorities in capitalizing on project achievements and the sustainability and/or reproducibility of activities;
- Plan a project sustainability strategy to sustain the achievements and facilitate the scaling up by other grassroots communities;
- Facilitate the dissemination and sharing of experiences and achievements with other rural communities and institutions in charge of environmental protection;
- Take into account the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 on communities by putting in place systems to reduce the risk of contamination during the implementation of projects.
- Contribute to the development and well-being of communities by integrating activities into initiatives that enable project beneficiaries to improve their standard of living and/or living environment. Particular attention will be paid to initiatives that:
- Encourages the creation of environmental benefits from the exploitation and sustainable management of natural resources;
- Take into account in the implementation of the project activities for the empowerment of women, indigenous peoples and the promotion of young people.
Focus Areas
- The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Program (GEF/GEF) is making grants for the third year of operational phase 7. Projects will focus on local initiatives that aim to improve the environment in GEF areas that are:
- The fight against the effects of climate change through projects: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, producing non-polluting energy from renewable sources (solar, water, compost, etc.);
- Conservation of biodiversity through initiatives aimed at: securing and/or enriching ecosystems and environments with biological resources, defending areas with fragile ecosystems containing species with high ecotourism value, etc.
- The fight against land degradation by implementing projects to: transform degraded land or land undergoing degradation into land for cultivation or pasture, restore environments in the process of being weakened to stabilize fragile ecosystems, etc.
- Reducing the effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), chemicals and solid wastes through initiatives that will reduce the proliferation of these products and wastes;
- The conservation of international waters through initiatives that will allow preserve shorelines and fishery resources.
- Priority will be given to initiatives/projects bringing an innovation easily appropriated by grassroots communities
- The fight against the effects of climate change through projects: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, producing non-polluting energy from renewable sources (solar, water, compost, etc.);
Funding Information
- The Central African PMF/FEM has an overall budget of US$250,000 for the second year of operational phase 7 (OP-Y2) which runs from 2019 to 2022.
- The mount of micro-financing granted by the PMF/FEM to local CSOs may not exceed USD 50,000 and the duration of implementation will be between 12 and 24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations meeting the following criteria are eligible
- Be a grassroots community organization (CBO), an NGO, a group or a legally recognized institution in the Central African Republic;
- Have an account in a first category banking establishment (Ecobank, BGFI, BSIC and BPMC);
- Apply through a project that meets the format of environmental micro-projects of the GEF: the grant request should not exceed US$50,000;
- Provide co-financing in cash or in kind that can be equivalent to the allocation requested from the PMF/GEF;
- Prove that the organization has the capacity to implement the submitted project (cf. CSO capacity assessment sheet);
- Prove that the organization is established in the project area and/or can have a base operational
- For CSOs that have already benefited from PMF/GEF allocations: have justified all the advances granted by the PMF/GEF during operational phase 6 for former beneficiaries of allocations.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=94700