Deadline: 01-Mar-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced the Call for Proposal for Engaging an NGO/CSO as a Responsible Party for managing small grants programme on the issues of social cohesion and citizens’ influence on local development decisions, strengthened personal and community security through greater institutional and citizen engagement in conflict-affected areas, strengthened mechanisms for conflict transformation through the provision of effective and innovative services and local media support in the target hromadas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Zhytomyr oblasts.
Programme Components
The Programme’s interventions are grouped under the following key Programme components, which reflect the region’s priority needs:
- Component I: Economic Recovery and Restoration of Critical Infrastructure.
- Component II: Local Governance and Decentralisation Reform.
- Component III: Community Security and Social Cohesion (CSSC).
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is USD 302,450.00.
- The duration of proposed activities should not exceed the period of eight and a half (8.5) months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Interested NGOs/CSOs must meet the following criteria to be eligible for the selection:
- A non-governmental, public, charitable, non-profit organization officially registered in Ukraine for at least 2 years;
- Experience in the management of grant programmes (at least two grant programmes with a total number of recipients over 25);
- Experience in project implementation or execution of contracts for the provision of professional services in the area of grant programmes management with a total budget of projects/contracts from USD 70,000.00;
- Legal status of the organization should enable it to receive grants pool from UNDP without the Responsible Party’s incurring in tax liabilities;
- Applications from Joint Venture, Consortium or Association will not be considered.
Selection Process
The UNDP will review proposals through a five-step process:
- Determination of eligibility;
- Technical review of eligible proposals;
- Scoring and ranking of the eligible proposals based on the assessment criteria outlined in the previous section to identify the highest-ranking proposal;
- Round of clarification (if necessary) with the highest scored proposal; and
- Responsible Party Agreement (RPA) signature.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=75395