Call for Proposals: Communities Climate Adaptation Facility for Fiji Advanced by GCCM – $100,000 USD Climate Grant!

The Communities Climate Adaptation Facility (C-CAF) is a worldwide initiative spearheaded by the Global Centre for Climate Mobility (GCCM) to handle the urgent wants of native communities on the frontline of the local weather disaster. Under the umbrella of the GCCM secretariat and board hosted at UNOPS, the C-CAF was established to facilitate the variation journeys of native communities experiencing the existential menace of sea-degree rise and different opposed local weather impacts.

The C-CAF goals to bridge the hole in local weather finance reaching native ranges and straight empower affected populations by offering local weather fast influence grants to frontline communities. With present local weather finance primarily centered on structural and infrastructure tasks, the C-CAF grants will empower communities to handle pressing local weather-associated challenges and take part in designing responses to strengthen their adaptive capacities and resilience. The C-CAF will scale up and convey about transformative group-led adaptation by shut partnership with nationwide governments in addition to worldwide and regional companions.

Requirements

Approach and methodology:

Applicants should present an in depth description of their proposed method and methodology, clearly demonstrating alignment with the aims and focused outcomes of the C-CAF. The methodology ought to deal with the next:

• How proposed actions will obtain the specified influence of enhancing group resilience and adaptive capacities.
• Integration of gender and social inclusion concerns in all phases of the venture
• Commitment to sustainability, together with measures to make sure the continuation of advantages past the grant interval.
• Adherence to safety from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) necessities and different moral pointers outlined by UNOPS.
• Consideration of well being and security, social, and environmental requirements throughout venture implementation.

Implementation Plan necessities:

Using the proposed outputs, deliverables and actions, in view of attaining the outcomes of the grant/funding, full the Implementation Plan. The Implementation Plan ought to precisely present the sequence and timeframe for the supply of every exercise and output.

⦁ Implementing Partner Monitoring Plan necessities
Complete the Implementing Partner (IP) Monitoring Plan.

Budget necessities:

• Budget Ceiling: 200,000 Fijian Dollars
  At a minimal, the funds should embody: An estimate of direct prices, which embody the entire bills which are required for and will be tracked on to the grant/funding accounts. Direct prices should be damaged down by expense subcategory, by expense line merchandise, and by yr.
• An outline of assumptions or justifications underlying the estimates.
• The prices will likely be eligible provided that these are incurred for the aim of this grant/funding and inside the period talked about within the authorized instrument (together with any amendments).
• The prices will likely be eligible provided that these are incurred for the aim of this grant/funding and inside the period talked about within the authorized instrument (together with any amendments).
• Article II, Section 7, of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations gives, inter alia, that the United Nations, together with UNOPS as a subsidiary organ, is exempt from all direct taxes, besides fees for public utility providers, and is exempt from customs restrictions, duties, and fees of the same nature in respect of articles imported or exported for its official use. All proposals shall be submitted internet of any direct taxes and every other taxes and duties.

Evaluation Method and Criteria

Proposals submitted in response to this CFP doc shall be evaluated based mostly on the tailor-made advert hoc choice methodology of the C-CAF, which consists of the next steps:

• Preliminary screening: This consists of an evaluation by the C-CAF National Selection Committee in Fiji of whether or not proposals adjust to the formal and eligibility standards acknowledged in Table 1: Formal and eligibility standards. All proposals that cross this stage will likely be despatched to the C-CAF Technical Review Committee for technical analysis.
• Technical analysis: This assesses the technical factors achieved by every proposal, as per the utmost obtainable factors assigned per standards group in Table 2.1: Parts of the technical proposal analysis. Only proposals that meet the minimal threshold indicated in Table 2: Technical Criteria shall be thought of considerably compliant at this stage. Evaluation of the technical proposals shall be accomplished by the C-CAF Technical Review Committee previous to opening the monetary proposals.
• Financial analysis: Financial proposals will solely be opened by the C-CAF Technical Review Committee for proposals which have achieved the minimal threshold within the technical analysis. Financial proposals shall be checked for any mathematical errors in accordance with Article 15, “Minor Informalities, Errors or Omissions” within the Instructions to Applicants. The whole monetary proposal factors achieved for every proposal are decided in accordance with Table 3: Financial standards.
• Final evaluate: Proposals which were authorised by the C-CAF Technical Review Committee will likely be submitted to the C-CAF Steering Committee, which is able to conduct closing critiques of grant requests and suggest the collection of the grantees in accordance with the UNOPS grant coverage. The UNOPS will guarantee compliance with the grant coverage and subject the award to the ultimate collection of grantees.
• Combined evaluation: This analysis will likely be carried out based mostly on a mixed evaluation, analyzing the entire related prices, dangers and advantages for every proposal. The mixed evaluation consists of the scores from each the technical analysis, together with components comparable to dangers, sustainability, and others, and the monetary analysis, utilizing a predefined weighting methodology.

The most variety of factors that an applicant could get hold of for its proposal are as follows:

• Technical proposal: 70 factors
• Financial proposal: 30 factors

The most whole variety of factors an applicant could get hold of for each the technical and monetary proposals is 100. The weighting of the technical and monetary proposals will likely be a 70:30 ratio.

***UNOPS could request clarification or additional data in writing from candidates at any level in the course of the analysis course of. In this case, any response from an applicant shall not modify the substance of the proposal, together with each the technical and monetary features of the proposal. UNOPS could use such data to interpret and consider the related proposal.

The analysis of a proposal by UNOPS shall be carried out towards the analysis standards described within the tables within the Grant Support Call for Proposal PDF out there at https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/262637. 

Eligible Regions

The C-CAF grant program is solely out there to communities and organizations working inside Fiji. Projects should be applied in areas uncovered to local weather dangers, together with these which are remoted, have misplaced entry to authorities providers, or are accommodating relocated populations because of local weather impacts.

Application Deadline

• 16 June 2025, 00:00 GMT (-5.00)

How To Apply

Download and skim all of the mandatory paperwork from the UNGM public notice portal.

• Review Application Documents: Access and evaluate all related paperwork offered within the UNGM Notice 262637, together with (within the Documents part):

  • C-CAF Proposal Template

  • C-CAF Declarations

  • Financial Proposal Template

  • Capacity Assessment Questionnaire

  • Grant Support Agreement

  • Instructions to Applicants
• Express interest by signing up or logging in

Contact

• Hyun Kim – c-caf@unops.org

Quick Links

 

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