Overview : Background Since the outbreak of violence in South Sudan in July 2016, Uganda has been receiving an unprecedented number of refugees fleeing from fighting, violence, drought and famine. As of April 2018, a total of 1,462,886 refugees and asylum seekers are recorded in the country, making Uganda the largest refugee hosting country in Africa and one of the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis. Most of these refugees (1,061,892) come from South Sudan and are mainly settled in West Nile districts. Uganda has a progressive refugee protection policy, providing refugees with freedom of movement, the right to work and establish businesses, the right to documentation and access to national social services. The country pursues a non-camp settlement policy, by which refugees are allocated plots of land for shelter and agricultural production, stretching out over vast territories. However, the refugee caseload and new arrivals continues to put enormous pressure on the country’s resources, in particular on land, basic service delivery systems (including health, education, water and sanitation). Refugee hosting districts face general challenges in responding to the refugee crisis, mainly as a result of limited resilience to shocks (due to poor planning, coordination, management and delivery capacities) and insufficient economic opportunities. Financial resources at local government level are unavailable to cater for the recovery and development needs of the rapidly growing populations. At the same time, the humanitarian response efforts remain insufficient to provide emergency assistance to the increasing numbers of refugees, as well as opportunities for their self-reliance. Hence, the model is coming under threat. To support the progressive Government policy, the UN and the World Bank developed the Refugee and host Population Empowerment (ReHoPE) framework, a comprehensive strategy to build the resilience and self-reliance of refugees as well as host communities. UNDP Emergency Response and Resilience Strategy for Refugees and Host Communities, based on the ReHoPE framework and in line with Uganda’s second National Development Plan and the Settlement Transformative Agenda, seeks to strengthen the resilience of refugees, host community members, district local government and relevant national institutions to cope with and recover from the impact of the large influx of refugees. The aim is to provide emergency support, while investing in existing national and local systems to ensure they can adequately serve both host and refugee communities. Against this backdrop, in 2018 UNDP received an allocation from the Government of Japan (Japanese Supplementary Budget) aimed at responding to urgent needs for economic stabilisation and at supporting longer term self-reliance of refugees and hosting communities, while supporting improved planning, management and delivery capacities of local governments to respond to the crisis, hence strengthening the humanitarian-development nexus. Through this project, UNDP will target 1,250 vulnerable households in Imvepi, Bidibidi and Palorinya settlements, in Arua, Yumbe and Moyo districts respectively, to provide livelihood support through cash for work and micro-enterprise development In order to implement the above mentioned project, UNDP Uganda intends to procure a competent Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Civil Society Organization (CSO), firm or institution RFP should be submitted as per guidelines in the attached RFP. Further information requests can be channeled to alexander.muhwezi@undp.org, diana.nabbanja@undp.org and janet.ndagire@undp.org. UNDP advocates for equal participation of men and women. Qualified women owned businesses are highly encouraged to apply. Deadline for submission of applications: June 27th 2018. Languages Required: English For further details, please visit http://procurement-notices.undp.org |