Conflict Pool Bid for 2012

30.01.2012  |   Baxış sayı: 917

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is now inviting detailed bids for project funding from the Conflict Pool for projects in the Caucasus and Central Asia from 1 April 2012.

The Caucasus and Central Asia Conflict Pool aims to reduce the potential for violent conflict in the South Caucasus, North Caucasus and Central Asia regions by investing in upstream conflict prevention. Projects can be targeted at the civil society, local government or national government level and can be local, national or regional in scope.

Criteria for Bidding

Projects must be aligned with the UK Government's Building Stability Overseas Strategy and must contribute to one or more of the following outcomes:

• Decreased isolation of conflict affected communities (increased people to people links across conflict divides and enhanced knowledge and understanding of 'the other side')

• Increased civil society capacity to resolve disputes at the local level and hold governments to account for their policies

• Increased capacity and accountability of national and local security sector institutions and law enforcement agencies

• Improved adherence of domestic legal systems to international standards

Please note that we do not fund humanitarian or development work from the Conflict Pool.

Projects should, wherever possible:

- Seek to work in parallel with pre-identified partner organisations across boundaries/ borders;

- Seek to be sustainable in the longer-term;

- Detail their delivery and assessment strategy;

- Detail projected costs and demonstrate good value for money;

- Be open to external audit

In this bidding round it may be possible to grant funding for up to three financial years (the UK financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March) but bidders will need to make a strong case as to how guaranteed funding over three financial years would enable them to deliver qualitatively more than funding granted on a yearly basis. Multiyear bids will also need to demonstrate what outputs would be delivered in each year and how the second and third years would build on what was achieved in the previous year(s). They should also provide an option to fund for one year only and make clear what outputs could be delivered in one year. The assessment panel will then decide whether to grant funding for the full three years, or whether to grant funding for one year only with an option to extend at the next bidding round (in a year's time).

Who may bid?

In order to be eligible, your organisation or agency must be a non-profit legal entity or a registered non-governmental organisation, and must demonstrate that it has:

- Experience in confidence-building / conflict resolution projects.

- Previous experience working with international agencies / organisations, preferably in community-based confidence building projects.

- Proof of NGO registration and profile.

- Sufficient technical, financial, human and logistical capacity.

How to submit bids

Applicants are requested to fill in the bidding form and to send it electronically to Bu email ünvanı spambotlardan qorunur. Onu görmək üçün JavaScripti qoşmaq lazımdır. indicating 'Conflict Pool Bid' in the subject field.

The closing date for bids is 9am (local time) Monday 20 February.

Please note that the bidding is competitive and only selected projects will receive funding. The FCO reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids without incurring any obligation to inform the affected applicant/s of the grounds of such acceptance or rejection. Due to the volume of bids expected we will not be able to provide feedback on unsuccessful bids.

About the Conflict Pool

The United Kingdom Conflict Pool (previously the Conflict Prevention Pool) is a cross-government initiative first established in 2001, and merged with the Stabilisation Aid Fund (focused on UK activities in Iraq and Afghanistan) in 2009 to create a single pool of funds dedicated to worldwide conflict prevention, stabilisation and discretionary peacekeeping activities.

The Conflict Pool is managed – and funded – jointly by theDepartment for International Development (DFID), the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the FCO.

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