Deadline: 25-Oct-21
The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency Coordinating Unit (CDEMA CU), with support from the European Union (EU), is inviting National Disaster Management Offices (NDMOs) and relevant national entities responsible for Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) implementation to apply for grants available through the Country Directed Fund (CDF).
This Call for Proposals has been made possible through the Building the Resilience of the CARIFORUM States to Disaster Risks and Climate Change Impacts (BRICS) programme. Relevant national entities must apply through their local National Disaster Management Offices (NDMOs).
Priority Areas
The competitive Call for Proposals will cover projects that enhance capacity within CDEMA Participating States in the priority areas of:
- Enhanced Institutional Capacity;
- Knowledge Management and Learning for CDM;
- Sector Integration of CDM;
- Enhanced Community Resilience;
- Strategic Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation and Research;
- Contingency Planning and Exercise Design and Testing;
- Emergency Response Coordination;
- Disaster Situational Awareness (Damage Assessment);
- Information Management;
- Disaster Risk Reduction;
- National Disaster Management Organization Capacity Building;
- DRR-related Information and Communication Technologies; and
- Emergency preparedness and response support for hazard impacts (including pandemic outbreak such as COVID-19 and epidemics).
Initiative
The proposed initiative should:
- support the CDM results articulated in the National CDM Work Programme that has been endorsed by the requisite governmental authority and accepted by CDEMA CU, and
- identify intervention(s) that will be completed within twelve (12) months of disbursement of the funds, inclusive of the project closeout period.
Funding Information
- Grants be valued between 10,000 and 60,000 Euros,
Eligibility Criteria
- National Disaster Management Offices and relevant national agencies responsible for CDM implementation from the following CDEMA Participating States may apply for use of the Country Directed Fund through the National Disaster Management Offices: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, The Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, The Republic of Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Republic of Suriname, The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
For more information, visit https://cdema.org/news-centre/press-releases/2238-competitive-call-for-proposals