Deadline: 29-Aug-2025
The World Food Programme (WFP) is now accepting applications for the Resilience Innovation Programme. This initiative is designed to scale up tools and approaches such as individual insurance products, early emergency response systems, and climate-smart livelihoods. The focus is on reaching poor and socially vulnerable populations through collaboration with governments and the private sector.
Building on the success of its first Country Strategic Plan, the second CSP (2022–2026) seeks to expand and gradually transition resilience interventions to national authorities, communities, and private actors. The overarching aim is to create a sustainable system for risk mitigation and financing that can transform rural economies in Bangladesh.
The programme operates across several key sectors, including food security and livelihoods. Activities may involve agricultural inputs, cash assistance, early warning systems, food security assessments, smallholder market support, and strategies for self-reliance.
The geographic focus includes Khulna, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barisal, and Chittagong divisions in Bangladesh. Applicants must demonstrate in-depth experience in agriculture and livestock insurance, and a solid understanding of local policy and regulatory frameworks related to insurance and micro-insurance.
Successful applicants will have strong capacity for knowledge transfer to local communities, ideally through partnerships with local insurance brokers. They should also show proven expertise in community mobilization, inclusive finance, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and social protection.
Organizations should have experience implementing food and cash transfer programs, emergency and livelihoods interventions, and resilience-building infrastructure guided by functional Risk Reduction Action Plans (RRAPs).
Applicants must demonstrate strong operational presence in the areas they propose to work, with at least two years of field experience at the division, district, and upazila levels. Experience in anticipatory action in flood-prone districts, climate-smart livelihoods, and insurance programming is also important.
Selection will be based on access and security considerations, clarity of proposed activities, cost-effectiveness, resource contributions, UN experience, and local presence. Project management capacity will also be a critical factor.
For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.
