Deadline: 22-Nov-21
The United States Development Programme (UNDP) is calling for proposals for Water Careers and Caregivers to present community proposals that contribute to the water security of the Central Region, through actions that improve the availability and quality of water, contribute to reducing vulnerability against risks related to water and climate change and generate collateral benefits additional social, economic and environmental.
This call is an opportunity to promote initiatives, solutions and new community practices that contribute to responding to problems in water management such as common good and human right, and that help to articulate multiple processes and actors, generating collective impacts and benefits for water security in the central region.
Objectives
- Contribute to the implementation of the Water Security Plan (PSH) of the Central Region promoting community initiatives and nature-based solutions that contribute to improving the availability and quality of water, reduce risks related to it, mitigate impacts of water climate change and generate additional social, economic and environmental co-benefits.
- This call will finance community initiatives on the management and use of water in areas where the state index of the water resource is very low and in which restoration actions are urgently needed which are essential for life and water in the central region. They are of special interest to this call for initiatives for the restoration and recovery of ecosystems essential for water through nature-based solutions.
Funding Information
Only one will be financed proposal per organization for an amount of thirty million pesos ($ 30,000,000). For a maximum execution time of 6 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Formally constituted community-based social organizations are eligible without the intention of profit, made up of residents of the municipalities, which participate directly in the proposed activities. These organizations must have some experience and interest in environmental initiatives, related to water and / or actions of restoration, protection or conservation in paramos or high Andean ecosystems in the areas object of this call.
- It is desirable that organizations have high participation and leadership of women and youth. May be foundations, corporations, community organizations with an ethnic focus, farmers, productive or other forms of organization typical of the territory, such as community action boards, aqueduct boards or indigenous organizations.
What Proposals can be submitted?
Proposals must respond to one or more of the following lines of work, always from the vision and community interest:
- Initiatives for the protection, restoration and community management of water as actions aimed at the protection and ecological restoration of water recharge areas of aqueducts, establishment of agreements or ways of organizing at the community level that contribute to the conservation and proper use of water.
- Collective actions aimed at maintaining or recovering natural ecosystems and guaranteeing the water services they provide to the community.
- Actions to control or reduce pressures on water resources, recover services ecosystems and transform conflicts over water use.
- Activities aimed at strengthening organizational capacities for the analysis and transformation of socio-environmental conflicts related to water, the construction of community agendas for joint water management, participation in spaces of advocacy, among other activities that contribute to community water governance.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=84987