Deadline: 25-Mar-22
The United Nations Development Programme UNDP-NCE team invites you to submit a Proposals to this Call for Proposals (CFP) Engaging a CSO for Investor Awareness Raising, philanthropy and corporate foundations engagement for the ISGAP project.
The AF-EC-UNDP Innovation Small Grant Aggregator Platform (ISGAP) is designed to support the development, diffusion and evidence building of innovative adaptation practices, tools, and technologies in developing countries. ISGAP programme is intended to provide 20-30 direct small grant fund to local entities (i.e. programme grantees).
Scope of Work
The contracted NGO/CSO shall provide the overall investor connection and investor awareness raising support to the ISGAP project. The contracted NGO/CSO is expected to achieve the following outputs in 2022:
- To equip social investors with the resources they need to make the right funding decisions to support adaptation investments
- Three to four convenings with a focus on how the private sector can help bridge the gap in adaptation finance and support locally led adaptation solutions. Convenings will be organised in/for different Global South markets – Asia, Africa and Latin America and can be held virtually or physically, depending on the investors preference and timezones. Lessons learnt are captured with a report to UNDPEngage family investment offices, philanthropy and corporate foundations to support adaptation innovations; connecting them to ISGAP project grantees
- Contribute or partner with UNDP to host an annual investor (both public and private) connection event for project grantees
- To mobilise private sector capital at matchmaking events to provide scale-up or co-financing opportunities for ISGAP project grantees
- To organise an adaptation innovation investment connection event, where family investment offices, philanthropy and corporate foundations can establish direct relationships with UNDP’s grantees innovative solutions, ideally, in a major global south conference/event
Objectives
The main objective of this ToR is to codified, documented, and disseminated Lessons learned from the project leading to adoption or replication of project introduced innovations with global local entities through:
- To equip social investors with the resources they need to make the right funding decisions to support adaptation investments.
- Engage family investment offices, philanthropy and corporate foundations to support adaptation innovations; connecting them to ISGAP project grantees.
- To mobilise private sector capital at matchmaking events to provide scale-up or co-financing opportunities for ISGAP project grantees.
Funding Information
- Proposals amounts should be up to an all-inclusive maximum amount of 80,000 USD.
- The amount requested in the proposal should be commensurate with the organization’s administrative and financial management capabilities. In principle, the contract duration will not exceed 1 year. The proposed administrative cost should not exceed 6-8%.
Final Beneficiaries
The contracted CSO shall provide the overall investor connection and investor awareness raising support to the ISGAP project.
Duration
The overall timeframe of the works is 1 year effective from the signature of the contract with maximum expected completion date April 2023. Time extensions, if deemed necessary, can only be granted through agreement extension. Urgent cases that could justify delays of works are mainly due to security reasons, or conflicts in areas of implementation and extreme weather conditions.
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification Criteria (Pass/fail):
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in implementing international development projects (Pass/Fail).
- Valid Certificate of Legal Constitution and Registration (Pass/Fail).
- Project Development Coordinator:
- Education: Minimum Master’s degree in a relevant field, environmental science, climate change or international development (Pass/Fail).
- Experience: Minimum 7 years (of demonstrable experience) coordinating similar assignments in terms of complexity, scope of work and/or geographical coverage (Pass/Fail)
- Proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Sound technical proposal that includes innovative and replicable inclusion mechanisms to maximize the value transfer to the beneficiaries.
- High impact interventions directly targeting and responding to the needs established in the Terms of Reference (ToR).
- Size of budget requested commensurate with the organization’s proven administrative and financial management capacity.
- Participatory monitoring and evaluation that will contribute to building a sense of ownership among the beneficiaries to promote the sustainability of the interventions.
- Experience:
- Proven experience in investment brokering and facilitation in Global North and Global South markets.
- Proven network partners in Africa and Latin-America covering investors across the entire continuum of capital.
- Proven experience in Investor awareness raising and investor capacity building in Global North and Global South markets.
- Established network and understanding of impact organisations and ecosystem development, including a strong network and pipeline of solutions on climate mitigation and climate adaptation across Pan-Asia.
- Proven experience in matchmaking between social actors and Investors, through deals share live sessions for investor ready solutions.
- Research capacity for knowledge management.
- Ability to mobilize philanthropists, wealth owners, foundations and family offices and organize global events.
- Previous cooperation/experience with UN organizations and / or international NGOs.
- Previous cooperation with UN Organiations and International NGOs is rather a desirable.
- Key personnel: Availability of a focal point, facilitators and qualified support staffs to coordinate with the Project Management Unit of ISGAP and facilitate the implementation and monitoring of the activities.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=88940
