Deadline: 22-Jul-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking applications for the Empowerment and Engagement of Community Mechanisms.
The objective of the project is to strengthen local and community mechanisms and resources for peace and social cohesion, build their capacity and enable them to facilitate engagement with local authorities including police and security personnel in 12 targeted areas that are: Mosul, Talafar, Sinjar, Qayara, Snuni, Hamdaniya, Hattra, Talkeyf, Bashiqa, Ba’aj, Qayrawan and Hawija.
Outputs and Activities
The overall outputs and key activities of this project are:
- Output 1: Local and community mechanisms and police and security personnel are capacitated to participate in and promote social cohesion. Activities:
- Develop curriculum and materials for capacity building training in coordination with UNDP
- Provide 12 workshops for capacity building for 3 days each to 25-30 local government officials and police and security officials on conflict resolution and dialogue in each targeted location. (one workshop for each targeted location).
- Provide 12 capacity building training workshop for 3 days each to 25-30 religious and tribal leaders, police officers, local government, Local Peace Mechanisms , youth and women groups and CBOs on dialogue and peaceful coexistence in each targeted location. (one workshop for each targeted location).
- Output 2: Local and community mechanisms are engaged with local authorities including police and security personnel to facilitate mediation and peace building activities. Activities:
- Identify local conflicts or community tensions to be resolved in coordination with UNDP in each targeted location.
- Facilitate 36 mediation and dialogue sessions, 3 sessions per targeted location, among community groups, and including police and local authorities. Each session is expected to bring about 50-60 participants, and the sessions will allow training recipients to practice their skills through facilitating mediation sessions with communities.
- Facilitate reconciliation between communities through supporting the development of 10 “local peace agreements”, covenant, charter or others forms of peace agreements and action plans as community see appropriate while ensuring human rights and gender perspectives are incorporated. The Local Peace agreements could be reached via conferences that may host (130- 150) community members from the wider segments of the communities in each targeted location.
- Implement follow up engagements activities for action plans bringing additional (100) participants in each location to ensure implementation
Funding Information
- The budget should be detailed, complete, rational and realistic, and must not exceed the equivalent of USD$ 1,200,000 for all locations and covers all activities up to the end of the project.
- The implementation of the Project is expected to commence from 1 August 2021 to 31 July 2022 with the expected number of direct beneficiaries amount to 4,900 in addition to indirect beneficiaries.
Eligibility Criteria
The applicant organizations must be non-profit non-governmental organizations (NGOs), with Registration with the Federal Government of Iraq and preferable the Kurdish Regional Government. Without the Federal Government of Iraq Registrations, the submission will not be deemed eligible.
The applicant organizations must have the following minimum expertise and experience:
- Proven knowledge and understanding of social cohesion issues in Iraq.
- Proven expertise and experience in working on conflict sensitivity and gender programming, with experience in reducing violence, re-establishing peace, and enhancing collaborative relations among different groups in Iraq.
- Proven technical expertise and experience in the design, implementation, and management of evidence and needs-based social cohesion interventions, which are conflict and gender sensitive.
- Proven organizational management expertise, including on administration, finance, human resources, procurement and operations.
- Proven experience in Monitoring and evaluating social cohesion and peacebuilding projects.
- A minimum of 5 years of active experience, undertaking similar work in Iraq.
- Proven, strong social capital and partnerships with local grassroots organizations, networks and movements (particularly those working on issues relevant to this TOR) in the target locations, and the proven ability to create formal working relationships to collaboratively implement this project.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=80231