Open Call for Civil Society Organizations in Georgia
Deadline: 5-Nov-21
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are announcing an open call for civil society organizations to nominate the candidates for the Small Grants Programme (SGP) National Steering Committee membership.
The Small Grants Programme National Steering Committee serves as the main decision-making body of the Small Grants Programme at the country level and provides overall oversight, guidance, and direction to the Country Programme.
Funding Information
In Georgia, the GEF Small Grants Programme was launched in 2012. Its current phase (2019-2023) is allocating US$ 500,000 to the initiatives with a geographic scope of the Greater and Lesser Caucasus Mountains, Black Sea coast and Georgia’s semi-arid regions.
The programme is focused on the environmental and development areas, such as community-based conservation of threatened ecosystems and species, sustainable agriculture and fisheries leading to food security, low-carbon energy access co-benefits and catalyzing sustainable urban solutions.
The programme also supports the initiatives that promote social inclusion, among them gender equality and women’s empowerment, helps establish CSO-government-private sector dialogue platforms and contribute to the global knowledge management.
Functions and Duties
The functions and duties of the National Steering Committee member are as follows:
Provide overall guidance and strategic direction of the Country Programme, including the development, implementation, and periodic review and revision of the Small Grants Programme Country Programme Strategy.
Review and approve projects in alignment with the Country Programme Strategy following participatory, democratic, impartial, and transparent procedures in line with the Small Grants Programme operational guidelines and standard operating procedures.
Provide technical support to the project oversight and implementation at the country level under the Small Grants Programme project document for the operational phase, including project monitoring and evaluation (e.g. field visits).
Link the Small Grants Programme operations to the relevant global, regional, and national policies and strategies of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and other third-party co-financing.
Support partnership development and resource mobilization efforts for the Small Grants Programme at project and country levels.
Support scaling up efforts to mainstream the Small Grants Programme lessons learned and successes in national development planning and policymaking.
Eligibility Criteria
Georgian citizenship
Sound knowledge of the environmental conditions in the GEF-SGP focal areas: biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, POPs and thematic areas that the country programme is focused on.
Sound knowledge of the (environmental) problems on the national and local level experience in preparation, implementation and monitoring/evaluation of projects
The National Steering Committee non-governmental members must have high credibility
independence and impartiality
Strong NGO linkages – wide experience working with CSOs, CBOs, in the country and can thus represent the needs and interests of the constituency in committee discussions.
For more information, visit https://www.ge.undp.org/content/georgia/en/home/presscenter/announcements/gef-small-grants-programme.html