Deadline: August 25, 2023 | UNVTF issues a call for proposals for its second sub-grant program (GRANT AMOUNT $ 60 000)
In order to provide crucial humanitarian, judicial, and financial relief to victims of trafficking in persons through established channels of support, the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons has released the seventh Call for Proposals (Sub-grant Programme 2).
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As part of the UN Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, the UNVTF was established by the UN General Assembly in 2010.
A five-member Board of Trustees, chosen by the UN Secretary-General for a three-year term, provides strategic direction and expertise to the UNVTF, which is run by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). More than 155 NGO projects in more than 60 countries have received funds totaling more than USD 6 million since the UNVTF’s founding in 2010.
Objectives
- This request for proposals recognizes the significance of utilizing all resources available to carry out initiatives designed to fulfill the goals of this grants program.
- The primary goals of this Grants Program are to promote the health and well-being of vulnerable victims of human trafficking, support social integration, and prevent re-trafficking among those vulnerable victims.
- Priority Issues and Thematic Focus
- This request for proposals aims to sponsor not-for-profit organizations working in the area of human trafficking whose initiatives are intended to offer vulnerable victims of human trafficking quick and crucial direct help.
Projects that target the following population will receive priority:
Women, children, and those who are most marginalized, such as those who are disabled, LGBTQI, internally displaced or refugees, indigenous, elderly, or members of ethnic minorities, are particularly excluded or disadvantaged victims of human trafficking.
Projects that modify programs or create interventions with the following goals will be given priority: facilitating early victim identification; integrating the use of cutting-edge strategies and technologies to support effective victim assistance; integrating survivor-focused financial inclusion and economic empowerment approaches to support victim recovery and reintegration into society.
Encourage interaction with those who have firsthand knowledge of human trafficking while also considering trauma-informed interventions for victims’ reintegration into society.
Projects addressing human trafficking in the following areas will receive priority:
conflict-affected parts of Eastern Europe, in particular Ukraine and its surrounding nations, which are impacted by the continued displacement of people;
Trafficking in human beings through the corridor that runs along the Mediterranean and through passageways between:
South Asia and the Middle East; South Asia and Western and Southern Europe; South America and Central America/the Caribbean; and South-East Asia. Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Projects that target people identified in the following circumstances will be given priority:
People who have been isolated from massive refugee and/or migrant flows, including internally displaced people, because to violence, post-conflict instability, or a breakdown in law and order.
people who have been located in or are leaving places that have been impacted by the displacement caused by climate change.
Projects that target the following types of exploitation will be given priority:
Organ harvesting, forced labor, forced begging, forced marriage, production of pornographic content, and recruitment of young people into armed groups are all examples of forced labor.
child exploitation in sports –
Funding
Budgets up to USD 60,000 will be taken into consideration for proposals.
Please be aware that the grading criteria will include an evaluation of value for money.
A monitoring visit by UNODC to the selected project will cost 2% of the requested budget amount. Grants will not be given out in excess of the entity’s annual revenue from the prior fiscal year.
In this regard, applicants’ money management skills will be evaluated.
Duration
The duration of all projects funded by this subprogramme must not exceed 24 months.
Activities That Qualify
- Early detection of victims of human trafficking through the combined use of innovative tactics and technologies is one activity that will be given attention.
- a medical intervention
- food, clothing, and other forms of material support.
- Legal assistance, including guidance and representation, as well as urgent, safe, and temporary shelter help survivors develop their financial literacy to increase their economic empowerment and financial independence that enable their reintegration into society.
- With the victim’s full cooperation, the victim may receive psychosocial help, educational assistance, vocational training, assistance with family reunion and/or repatriation, and support for involvement with survivors and survivor-led organizations and their work.
Location
This is a worldwide request for proposals.
The implementation of projects in the nations of origin, transit, and destination will all be taken into account.
Eligibility requirements
- In order to be eligible for a grant, applicants must: be a non-profit making organisation (CSOs including NGOs, CBOs) registered under the relevant Laws of the country where it is registered and in the country where it will be implementing the proposed project; have been registered by 1 July 2021;
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the project, i.e. not acting as an intermediary;
- demonstrate prior experience of at least two (2) year implementing activities in the area of direct assistance to victims of trafficking in persons in line with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime or in providing other services to vulnerable populations including IDPs and forcibly displaced persons;
- complete registration in the UN Partner Portal (UNPP) and secure a valid UNPP Partner ID; have a bank account in the organisation’s name;
- confirm that the organisation takes appropriate measures to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse and signs the Partner declaration form.
- The funded project from the prior grant should have been programmatically and operationally concluded when the applicant who was previously awarded a grant by UNVTF submits a new application, meaning that the project has concluded/activities have been completed, and all required reports have been submitted without any outstanding issues or unreturned unspent balance.
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UNVTF issues a call for proposals for its second sub-grant program
