United Nations Development Programme
Type of work: Project and Program Management
Relevent Country: Jordan
Last Date: 04-10-2022
UNDP is seeking a Call for Proposals from NGOs/CSOs for Youth civic and political participation in the Arab region baseline report and recommendations, country office sensemaking towards enhancing coherence and effectiveness of programmatic interventions.
Through its Regional Youth Project, the UNDP Regional Bureau for the Arab States seeks to foster the value of co-creation and inclusion in public policy processes that concern young people. Based on the assumption that creating better interfaces between the people and the government will lead to more responsive and relevant public policies and services and ultimately better development outcomes, it seeks to support UNDP Country Offices and partner governments in working towards:
Youth engagement in public life and public policy design – by exploring and promoting innovative tools and frameworks for integrating a youth perspective in policy formulation and service design.
A whole of government approach on youth. Enhanced institutional capacities and ensured horizontal and vertical co-ordination across state institutions and nongovernmental bodies, which is critical to ensure that all stakeholders are working in harmony towards a shared vision for youth.
Strengthened youth (serving) structures and networks (innovation hubs, national youth councils and centers, think tanks, incubators) to foster a generation of engaged and empowered citizens.
Phases
The UNDP Regional Bureau for the Arab States has sought to partner with a regional policy research center to get a baseline read on the operating environment within the region, sub-regions and individual countries, highlighting challenges and opportunities and leverage points with the overall objective of informing a region-wide, up-to-date support program tailored to country-specific needs and constraints. The assignment is structured into three phases:
Data collection and analysis: Baseline assessment of youth civic and political participation in the Arab region. The research was commissioned to help address questions around contextual challenges and needs, as well as feasibility of capacity building and policy incubation programs in each country.
Actionable intelligence/sensemaking: Publishable regional report as a regional flagship knowledge product; and design and co-delivery of country office sensemaking workshops with the aim of generating demand for country office support engagements geared towards enhancing coherence and effectiveness of programmatic interventions based on systems logic.
Advisory and implementation support: Country office engagement to design portfolios of options. This phase will be led by the UNDP Reginal Hub with support from a regional think tank, knowledge, or research center.
Objectives
Building on the work undertaken to date through the research commissioned in early 2022 by the UNDP Regional Bureau for the Arab States youth team, which provides a preliminary baseline assessment about civic and policy engagement of youth in the MENA region, UNDP is looking to engage an NGO to conduct the second phase of the overall assignment which will cover the socialization of the research findings with relevant programmatic teams and colleagues in the UNDP Amman Regional Hub, country offices and headquarters, and the facilitation of a process of joint sensemaking.
This shall be done in two steps. The engaged NGO will deliver a presentation and design a virtual workshop that enables interested colleagues to engage with and make sense of the data and share experiences and good practices with colleagues across the region.
Funding Information
Budget size and duration Proposals amounts should not exceed a total of 15,000 USD. The amount requested in the proposal should be commensurate with the organization’s administrative and financial management capabilities. Project implementation must not exceed 50 Calendar Days of duration.
Deliverable
Target countries:
The UNDP Regional Bureau for the Arab States covers 17 countries. Given the complexity of challenges and constraints in several countries, 13 countries will be part of the initial research cohort to hedge against the risks of delaying the entire process, if the research team encounters bottlenecks in one or more countries. This research comprised the following 13 countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Somalia, Tunisia, Yemen.
Eligibility Criteria
Project Team Leader Qualifications:
Qualifications of the NGO
Source: https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_file.cfm?doc_id=313722