Deadline: 5-Nov-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced a call for project proposals to strengthening civil society organizations for responsive and accountable governance in Rwanda.
The objective of the CSO strengthening programme is to enhance an enabling environment for CSOsto play a prominent role in service delivery, policy design and reforms, to represent the voice of the people and to hold state and corporates accountable. This will be achieved if CSOs have the required capacities, tools and mandates to represent the interests of the people of Rwanda.
Thematic Priorities
Eligible project proposals can focus on one of the seven thematic areas described here under:
- COVID 19 economic recovery (at community level): Under this thematic area, CSO projects supporting economic recovery efforts of local communities will be considered. This can include support to affected businesses, support to skills development for the unemployed, support to innovative entrepreneurship.
- Empowerment of persons with disabilities: In recent years, the Government of Rwanda strengthened its interventions towards supporting persons with disabilities. In 2011, the government established the National Council of Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) to coordinate disability inclusion efforts in the country. More recently, in May 2021, the cabinet approved a national policy for inclusion of persons with disabilities, reaffirming Rwanda’s strong political will for disability inclusion.
- Anti-SGBV, child protection and gender equality: Projects under this area can include effective models of working with women, men, boys and girls at the community level to achieve behavioral change to reduce violence and build healthy families. Projects can include activities aimed at promoting secure environments for all family members, promoting positive masculinities, eradicating gender-based violence or reinforcing family unity and positive parenting.
- Youth empowerment: Activities can include innovative initiatives led by CSOs supporting communities in strengthening youth’s social and economic empowerment and welfare. These can include creating opportunities and skills for decent earnings through employment and entrepreneurship, scaling up a social enterprise initiated and managed by young people, business development services that help enhance self-employment/job creation among the youth, activities related to global citizenship education and prevention of violent extremism. Activities taking place in rural areas and secondary cities are encouraged.
- Protection of the environment for green growth and climate resilience: Rwanda’s economy is heavily dependent on the environment and natural resources. The livelihoods of rural (and increasingly urban) communities depend on access, use and management of such resources. Pursuing green economy is a priority area of economic transformation.
- Extension services for agriculture and livestock: Project proposals in this area can include interventions supporting a wide range of activities in agriculture covering multiple dimensions, for example the production of organic food; the use of clean and renewable energy to achieve food security; green and sustainable livelihoods; clean agriculture value chains; sustainable livestock production.
- Quality service delivery and accountability: Project proposals in this area can contribute to the effective service delivery in relation to national service delivery priorities. Activities can focus on creating awareness of and promoting compliance to the service quality standards to enhance service delivery to citizens. Activities will also focus on addressing related bottlenecks through capacity building to influence behavioral change with an emphasis on raising awareness of service providers to provide effective and quality services to citizens while at the same time encouraging the recipients to thrive for better services and decline poor services.
Funding Information
- Micro-grants will be awarded a maximum budget of 25,000,000 RWF. Proposals submitted cannot exceed this budget ceiling.
- The proposed project can have a duration of maximum twelve (12) months. The project will start on the day of signature of the grant agreement.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations eligible to respond to this Call for Proposals are national non-governmental and faith-based organizations (including umbrella organizations), which are legally registered by the Rwanda Governance Board in line with the existing legislation. All applicants should possess a registration certificate (legal personality) issued by RGB and an organizational bank account. In addition, all eligible organizations should be complying with laws and regulations as well as required governance principles and practices.
- For the purpose of this Call for Proposals, civil society organizations encompass national non-governmental organizations and faith-based organizations defined as follows:
- Registered national non-governmental organizations (including media associations registered by RGB)
- Registered faith-based organizations
For more information, visit https://www.rw.undp.org/content/rwanda/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/20210/9/call-for-civil-society-organisations-project-proposals-2021.html