Deadline: 25-Feb-22
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Moldova has announced a new call for proposals for the Small Grants Program 2022 for civil society organizations, associations and non-governmental organizations.
The overall objective of the Program is to contribute to an atmosphere of trust and cooperation between the two banks of the Nistru, thus generating new perspectives on common interests and a common future for the inhabitants of both banks, responding to their urgent development needs.
The projects must contain a series of activities that will focus on empowering organizations to strengthen confidence-building measures by addressing the common needs of the population and localities on both banks of the NistruRiverand proposing joint solutions.
Thematic Areas
Projects should address specific needs and local issues through collaboration between two banks in the following recommended thematic areas, but are not limited to them:
- Health and social protection:
- Addressing the pressing needs of the community and facilitating people’s access to social services and health care
- Strengthening the quality of life at local level, especially in remote rural areas
- Health care and social protection of children
- Modernization of health care services, digitalization
- Fight against poverty and the social inclusion of vulnerable people
- Access of people infected with HIV / AIDS, TB but also of institutionalized persons to diagnostic medical services and medicines of strict necessity
- Organizing awareness campaigns by preventing discriminatory attitudes towards such people
- Training and consultation on reproductive health and family planning
- Awareness raising activities to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies among young girls,
- Post-COVID recovery, rehabilitation protocols, restoration of functionality and work capacity, etc.
- Culture:
- Joint artistic and cultural activities (conducted in line with the relevant epidemiological guidance),including music, painting, dancing, film and documentary production, poetry readings, street art, social theatre, sculpture, graphics, etc.
- Organizing joint cross-community cultural and artistic activities to promote trust at the level and for the benefit of local communities, developed jointly with artists and talented people from both banks of the Nistru River
- Development of creative industries
- Tourism development, creating tourist routes and mapping places of tourist interest, promoting regional tourism on both banks, within the country and abroad
- Modernization of cultural halls, diversification of cultural services
- Training in cultural area, digitalization, exchange of good practices
- Environment protection:
- Joint projects addressing environmental issues
- Improving the management of natural resources
- Protection of the flora and fauna of the NistruRiver and the surrounding regions
- Alternative and renewable energy sources
- Waste management, separate waste collection
- Involvement of local communities in activities to clean the Nistru riverbed
- Promoting a healthy lifestyle and green economy models, ecological training
- Building networks for cooperation in the field of ecology on both banks of the river
- Education:
- Joint projects focused on the exchange of experience and specialized professional training for representatives of educational institutions on both banks of the Nistru River
- Project ideas to facilitate girls’ access to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
- Initiatives to promote studies in the field of information technologies
- Start-up initiatives among pupils and students from educational institutions on both banks of the Dniester River
- Projects to promote the inclusive learning process and to create the conditions for informal education
- Sport:
- Joint initiatives for sports competitions, tournaments matches or recreational sports events
- Sports activities organized for people of different ages, to promote a healthy lifestyle
- Project proposals that will lead to the improvement of the conditions for practicing sports, as well as those that will ensure the potential beneficiaries with sports equipment and machinery
- Creating tourist routes and mapping places of tourist interest, promoting regional tourism on both banks, within the country and abroad
- Creating opportunities for youth participation in sports competitions and joint training between the two banks of the Nistru River
- Unconventional approaches to sports and healthy lifestyle promotion
- Establishing new forms of sports educational activities
Funding Information
The Programme will support at least 10 small grant projects with high confidence building potential implemented on both sides of the river. Interested organizations may submit project applications, taking into account that projects should be implemented between February2022 – April 2023. Each of 10 (ten) successful applications will receive a grant component not exceeding 20,000 Euro per project.
Eligibility Criteria
Entities eligible to submit project proposals should meet all of the following criteria:
- Be a registered non-profit Community Based Organization or a Civil Society Organization (NGO), that will represent a partnership consisting of at least two organizations on different banks of the Nistru/Dniester River;
- Have experience in carrying out activities in the areas of education, sports, culture, environment, healthcare, youth initiatives, community development and/or social entrepreneurship
- Be directly responsible for the development and management of implemented projects, without acting through intermediaries;
- Applicants from either right or left bank can submit only one project proposal under this grant competition as main partner. They may choose to participate as a secondary partner in another project proposal;
- At least one of the project implementation partners must have experience in carrying out activities in the region, stipulated in the project proposal.
For more information, visit https://sc.undp.md/tnddetails2_1/2414/