Overview : Background: The Support to Inclusive Growth and Trade Capacity Development (IGTCD) project is designed to support the Government of the Republic of South Sudan’s efforts to address the humanitarian challenges created by the current conflict. The project support efforts to lay foundations of early recovery efforts on economic revitalization, livelihoods and employment generation for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and host communities. The project also aims to support coordinated efforts to; a) help communities increase their incomes through Gum Arabic exploitation, b) identify and support value chain support enterprises engaged in the Gum Arabic trade. These efforts contribute towards increasing quality and quantity of Gum Arabic production in Eastern Equatoria and Northern Bahr Ghazal states. Objective: UNDP aims to strengthen the Gum Arabic value chain for commercial exploitation and trading. Expected Results: UNDP seeks to identify CSOs, NGOs and CBOs with operational capacity and presence in the Gum Arabic belt (Eastern Equatoria and Northern Bahr Ghazal states) to realise the results below. Actions that promote youth and women inclusion will be prioritized. 1. Gum Arabic value chain mapped and economic opportunity in the target Gum Arabic belt assessed. 2. Pilot initiatives implemented to strengthen the value chain for commercial exploitation and trading of Gum Arabic: 3. Lessons learned from the pilot initiatives documented for replication: Interested NGOs, CSOs, CBOs can submit their technical and financial proposal to the following address. Hard copy to: UNDP South Sudan Reception By email to: daniel.kir@undp.org Cc: biplove.choudhary@undp.org |