| Overview : UNDP Kenya through the Climate Promise and funding from UK’s Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) invites local communities and indigenous peoples organized through civil society organizations, community forest associations, or forest-dependent communities to submit proposals for the award of grants in innovative and transformative, informing policy and methodologies that can influence and shape NDC implementation in the forest and land-use sector. The geographic scope of implementation of the project is in Kenya with a focus on interventions relating to Kenya’s REDD+ Strategy as follows: - Scaling up afforestation and reforestation and landscape restoration programs;
- Enhancing governance and policy implementation to reduce the conversion of forests to other land uses;
- Increase productivity of plantation forests; and
- Enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and skills in forest-related value chains
For more information on the areas eligible for funding, guidelines on the call and templates, interested and qualified non-state actors should check- Background information and Guidelines for Submission of Proposals – UNDP_DEFRA available on UNDP Procurement Notice site. ALL Concept Notes and supporting documents must be submitted strictly on or before the deadline via email consultants.ken@undp.org The deadline for the submission of the proposals is on or before 16h30, 30th November 2022 Kenyan time. | 
