Request for Proposal (RFP) to initiate Children on the Move Project in Ethiopia 102 views

Background Information:

Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention (CRVPF) is a regional child right and social justice intermediary organization that provides grants and capacity development support to Community Organizations and Local NGOs working with children, youth, families, communities, and schools. CRVPF’s mission is to prevent violence, sexual abuse, and exploitation of children and adolescents where they live, learn, play, and work. CRVPF provides grants to community organizations and local NGOs operating in Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Kenya.

Funding announcement – general instructions for Concept Note submission 

Concept note submission deadline: April 15^th, 2021

Submissions received after this date will not be accepted Submission of questions by applicants : Questions can be addressed to CRVPF by March 25^th to the email listed below.

CRVPF Grant Making strategies : CRVPF will provide grants to Community Organizations and local NGOs interested in working in a cluster partnership of 2-3 organizations using one fund and focusing on one geographic area.

Types of Project:

CRVPF, with funding from Oak Foundation, plans to develop a grant-making program to address Children on the Move issues in Ethiopia. CRVPF will provide a planning and learning grant for selected cluster partners for three month period.  To give cluster partners time and space to know each other strategies, develop working procedures,  conduct a situational analysis, and prepare long-term proposals for CRVPF funding.

Who are Children on the Move?

The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) defines children on the move as ‘those children moving for a variety of reasons, voluntarily or involuntarily, within or between countries, with or without their parents or other primary caregivers, and whose movement, while it may open up opportunities, might also place them at risk (or at an increased risk) of economic or sexual exploitation, abuse, neglect, and violence. The global estimate is that 50 million children are on the move annually. Children and youth from Africa make up the highest proportion of children on the move.

The key objectives of the project are:

1. Primary Prevention: To prevent young children from migrating and separating from their families and ensure adolescents have the information and analysis they need to make informed decisions whether to migrate or to remain in their homes. Cluster partners develop effective prevention strategies focusing on family strengthening and children’s resilience, as well as community systems, using various interventions, including family
   • • parenting programs that enhance families’ capacity to provide for their children and build positive and supportive relationships
     • improving spousal relationships to manage stress;
     • economic strengthening through savings and loan programs to increase family capacity to meet basic needs;
     • facilitating linkages to social services;
   • Community
     • Strengthening formal and community systems of support
     • Facilitating referral systems
   • Child
     • Addressing the causes of children and adolescents dropping out of school
     • Increasing children’s access to services
     • Increasing children’s rights knowledge and increasing confidence and agency.
     • Enhance children’s understanding of the migration process, the challenges they encounter, and information to support safe migration pathways and options to remain home.
     • Cluster partners encourage to develop various interventions to work with community formal and informal structures.
2. Protection of Children on the move: Cluster partners to work with diverse stakeholders such as the police, transport authorities in selected transit towns, and established transit centers and reintegrate children if they want to return to their families. Ensure  Children on the Move are safe and protected in transit. This includes providing services to children who are continuing on their journey to have safe migration passages. Where possible, explore options for drop-in centers inaccessible spaces where children can access information, support, and protection. Engage with and influence power holders to facilitate safe passage
3.  Provision of support at destination: Cluster partners rescue children and adolescents from the abusive and exploitative environment, established safe homes for temporary shelters, and reintegrate children and adolescents if they are interested in reuniting with their families. Provide counseling to build their resilience and capacities, skills training to older adolescents to enhance their employment, and financial support to initiate businesses.  Support children and adolescents to develop skills and to access non-exploitative job opportunities.

Location:

• Northern Ethiopia corridor working on the following towns. Dessie Kmobolcha, Debre Sina, and Debre Berhan. The project can expand to the Southern or Southwestern parts of the country.

Grant Size:

• Up to US$ 50,000 -65,000 per cluster (For two or three organizations in one cluster) for one year period.

Eligibility:

•  Community Organizations and Local NGOs with experience working on child migration and trafficking and interested in working in cluster partnerships can apply for the grant.