The UNDP Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP) in Ghana has received funds under the GEF-7, to promote the sustainability and upscaling of socio-ecological production of landscapes and seascapes (SEPLs) conservation approach, including efforts to promote institutional and financial sustainability of these landscapes and seascapes. Accordingly, the GEF-SGP announces the 2020 "call for proposals" to award small grants to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) registered in Ghana for the most innovative initiatives.

The main activities to be executed under this call are:

a) conducting consultations, dialogue and awareness raising among key stakeholders on the community-based landscape management and participatory governance model to restore and sustain the resilience of ecosystems;

b) assessment and identification of possible and favourable institutionalization/mainstreaming of the SEPLS model, including sustainable financing opportunities and mechanisms in place; and

c) policy dialogue among stakeholders to identify and develop the key follow up steps.

Eligibility:

Applicants must be local non-governmental or non-profit organizations, operating in Ghana with valid Registrar General’s Department and Social Welfare certificates. They must have relevant experience and proven records in working with local communities in landscape ecosystem restoration, policy dialogue and participatory dialogue. Membership of an existing CSO network will be an added advantage.

Time Framework:

This call for proposals is opened from the date of this advertisement until August 10, 2020. Applicants are expected to submit full technical proposals indicating how they would implement the project.

For full details on the guidelines for the proposal, application forms and project document, please send expression of interest to george.ortsin@undp.org; or lois.sarpong@undp.org. Details of the project document; project proposal guidelines and call for proposal process can be downloaded.

Background

The GEF-SGP in Ghana implemented a community-based model of landscape management and participatory governance programme to restore the resilience of ecosystems and sustained the landscape that communities depend upon. The project was implemented within the Weto landscape of the Volta Region. The first two phases of the programme, which was completed in December 2018, focused on two components: (i) community development through small grant making, and (ii) knowledge management for capacity building, replication, and up-scaling.

Building on this experience, the primary focus of the third phase of the COMDEKS is to: (a) promote sustainable use of biodiversity and its integration into the management of land, forest, and water resources (COP decision XII/18); (b) provide further guidance on the concept of sustainability in food and agriculture with regard to biodiversity, and to promote and strengthen support for relevant information-sharing and technology transfer among Parties (COP decision XIII/3); and (c) institutionalize the SEPLs model as an effective area-based conservation measures (COP decision XIV/8).

Call for Proposal Documents

• Project Document
• Project Proposal Guidelines
• Call for Proposal Process