Procurement Notices

The Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGONU) has taken steps towards rebuilding South Sudan in line with the R-ARCSS including the crucial role of truth, reconciliation, and healing. The R-TGONU has set up a Technical Committee to design a law establishing a Commission on Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing (CTRH). By its very nature, the CTRH will enable the country to acknowledge its past violence; help the truth to be known publicly by hearing from both victims and perpetrators; enable justice to be done; and support victims and the society to move beyond the painful past into a united and peaceful future. In turn, it will signal the way forward to ensure grave violations of human rights never happen again.

The inclusion of victims and survivors, religious and community leaders, CSOs and political party representatives in transitional justice processes will enable them to share their views to inform the establishment of CTRH. This inclusivity will more likely enable the CTRH to have the capacity to deliver upon its mandate as part of a holistic transitional justice process in conformity with international norms and standards, be perceived to be legitimate and its finding supported by the population. The independence, inclusivity, survivor-focus, and gender-responsiveness approach for truth, healing and reconciliation process will lay the foundation for individual and societal healing; unity and building new public confidence and trust in the state institutions. 

As part of its support to transitional justice process, UNDP and OHCHR seeks to promote a victim-centered approach to transitional justice by enabling stakeholders including victims/survivors, conflict affected persons and groups, representatives of religious, community, CSOs, marginalized groups, and youth to meaningfully participate in an informed and effective manner in sharing a vision for the establishment of credible and effective truth, healing, and reconciliation mechanism. Support will also include provision of training, experience-sharing and mentoring services for these target groups to enable them develop good strategies pertaining to their interventions and help them acquire a good understanding of the truth seeking processes and include methodologies sensitive to gender, child and differently abled persons specific needs and situations and play their role in mobilizing the public and the affected groups including victims/survivors for their participation in the process.

This call for proposal invites competent and reputable registered Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to submit proposals for a six-month grant aimed at promoting meaningful participation of victims and survivors and other relevant stakeholders in the CTRH process and conduct awareness-raising on transitional justice.

1. OBJECTIVE

The objective of the grant is to build on and expand on the network of survivors and other stakeholders to enable them to discuss issues in relation to the conflict violence, trauma healing, and non-violent means to achieve justice and peace, legal and institutional framework of CTRH. 

1. EXPECTED OUTPUTS

The organizations are encouraged to develop their own expected results based on their respective assessment of needs, issues, and challenges of survivors and victims in the transitional justice processes. Expected outputs will include the following:

1. Build capacity of 23 existing survivors’ networks (8 in Leer, 4 in Bor and 11 in Bentiu), religious leaders, CSOs, chief and members of political parties to spearhead peace dialogues, participating on awareness raising on peace and transitional justice messages within their communities.
2. Build capacity of 375 members of survivors’ networks to prevent violent, deal with conflict and related trauma to enable their views to be heard especially on the design of the legal and institutional framework of CTRH and prepare them to participate meaningfully in the transitional justice process.
3. Mobilize and support 200 people or survivors identified from survivors’ networks, CSOs, Chief and members of political parties and religious leaders to participate in training programs, radio talk shows and round table discussions on transitional Justice processes. 
4. Support 100 stakeholders from survivors’ networks, CSOs, religious leaders, Chiefs, political party representatives and other relevant stakeholders to receive key guiding principles and approaches on transitional justice and processes for the establishment of Commission on Truth, Reconciliation and Healing.
5. Carry out trainings for 300 members of the victims’ and survivors’ network, CSOs, religious leaders, chiefs, and members of political parties on women and children’s rights, gender equality, leadership, advocacy skills, public speaking.

1. Expected results

The organizations are encouraged to develop their own expected results based on their respective assessment of needs, issues, and challenges of survivors and victims in the transitional justice processes. 

Expected results will include the following:

1. 23 existing survivors’ networks initiatives are strengthened and more directly engaged with religious leaders, CSOs, chief and members of political parties to spearhead peace dialogues, participating on awareness raising on peace and transitional justice messages within their communities.
2. A survey to determine the number / percentage on of these group who feel sufficiently equipped to identify and respond to underlying factors that enabled human rights violations. Formation of strong linkage among Survivors networks in the fight for truth, justice, and healing.
3. 300 people from members of survivor’s network, CSOs, religious leaders, chiefs, members of political parties and other relevant stakeholders are trained on women and children’s rights, gender equality, leadership, advocacy skills and public speaking.