| Overview : REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) Proposal for a Civil Society Organization (CSO) to implement components of Promoting Socio-Economic Development and Peace in Africa’s Borderlands project The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience, and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in around 170 countries and territories, supporting their own solutions to development challenges and developing national and local capacities that will help them achieve human development and the Sustainable Development Goals. Our work is concentrated on three focus areas: i) Sustainable development, ii) Democratic governance and peacebuilding, iii) Climate and disaster resilience. UNDP helps countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we promote gender equality and the protection of human rights. Kenya and Uganda signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in support of the Kenya (Turkana/West Pokot)-Uganda (Karamoja) Cross-Border Programme for Sustainable Peace and Development on 12th September 2019 in Moroto, Uganda. The objective of the MoU was to accord communities from both sides of the border opportunities for better cooperation, close collaboration, and peaceful coexistence, as well as bridging isolation gaps to improve livelihoods and socio-economic conditions for sustainable peace and development. Following on the commitments of the MOU, UNDP With the support of and in partnership with the Government of Sweden, the African Union Commission (AUC), Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Life and Peace Institute (LPI) and UNDP joined forces to promote socio-economic development in Africa’s Borderlands. The borderlands of Karamoja region in Uganda and Turkana and West Pokot counties of Kenya are afflicted by endemic armed conflicts between the pastoral groups that inhabit the three geographically contiguous and socio-culturally and economically interconnected regions. In the last decade, conflict in the Karamoja cluster, has become increasingly more severe, commercialized, and politicized UNDP Uganda is seeking for a Civil Society Organization (CSO) to implement components of Promoting Socio-Economic Development and Peace in Africa’s Borderlands project For full details of the Request for Proposal, please download the attached Submission of Proposals, not later than Sunday, June 5th, 2022, 11:59pm local time For additional information, please contact ug.procurement@undp.org. PLEASE NOTE THAT – UNDP DOES NOT CHARGE ANY FEES AT ANY STAGE OF ITS RECRUITMENT PROCESS AND DOES NOT SEEK TO HAVE ANY MONETARY PAYMENT OF ANY NATURE PAID BY ANY JOB-SEEKERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS. | 
