CALL FOR PROPOSALS – Employment Generation Programme

Targeted Areas:

While all communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are eligible, priority will be given to Palestinian communities located in Area C, East Jerusalem, Refugee Camps, and the

Gaza Strip.

Nature of Projects:

Projects in the following categories are eligible: agricultural infrastructure, cultural heritage rehabilitation, educational (additional classrooms or school extensions, rehabilitation of schools including sanitary facilities) and vocational infrastructure, health facilities, kindergarten, parks, retaining walls, internal roads, sidewalks, social infrastructure, sports infrastructure, storm water canals, sewage, water (including reservoirs, water networks, etc), economic infrastructure including industrial zones, and infrastructure supporting women and youth.

Excluded from funding are purely administrative buildings and facilities, for example headquarters for associations or village councils.

Objective of the Projects:

The objective of the proposals should be employment generation through small scale priority infrastructure works for the people of the community. Proposals will be evaluated based upon potential short term as well as long term employment generation opportunities. This includes the promotion of labour based designs, techniques and the effective utilization of local materials. (i.e. use of interlock tiling rather than asphalting of roads) Furthermore, the proposals will be scored heavily based on their proposed operation plan, relevance to the community, and long term sustainability..

General Conditions: (if any one of the conditions is not met, your application will be disregarded)

Applications must be fully completed, including sector specific forms and full operation and maintenances plan that will need to be validated by the respective line ministry.

Only one proposal per submitting institution will be accepted. If more than one proposal is received, all applications will be disregarded.

A minimum of 25% labor content must be proven.

Should have no negative impact on the surrounding environment.

Licenses for all projects must be available. This also should include water projects.

All submitting institutions must submit with their application a stamped non objection for their proposal from the relevant national ministry or institutions.

All projects must be for public purposes.

The amount of funding requested must be sufficient to complete a functional project. Submitting institution co-financing “must be documented”, while projects may not be co-financed by other donors.

All project proposals must include an initial detailed operation and maintenance plan including, staffing, types of activities to be implemented, how costs will be covered to ensure the proper functioning of the infrastructure, that promotes the long term sustainability of the project.

The EGP X Program is a tax exempted fund; therefore no tax claims will be funded/refunded through the Programme.

The duration of the project must not exceed 12 months from the date of receiving acceptance letters from UNDP.

If you are building on land or a facility that is not owned by the submitting institution, you must provide initial proof (i.e letter from the landlord) that the constructed works will be rent free for a period of no less than 15 years.

All certified copies of supporting documents must be readily available if your proposal is selected for consideration including designs, permits, licenses, agreements with landlords, and proof of land ownership. If the documents are not available, your project will be disqualified.

Proposals can be submitted in either the Arabic or English language.

Priority will be given:

Communities in Area C, East Jerusalem, Refugee Camps, and the Gaza Strip.

To women’s, youth, and projects for the disadvantaged including Bedouin.

To income generating projects.

To those in the community who are considered handicapped or disadvantaged.

To joint submissions by more than one community and/or in cooperation with an NGO.

To projects that can document co-financing.

To projects that have all documents and licenses ready.

To needy communities not funded through EGP programmes in the past.

To implementing institutions that have the capacity to ensure sustainability

Total allocated Funds/Project:

Executing Organizations:

1.Local Authorities (Village Councils), excluding municipalities.

2.Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations.

3.Refugee Camp Committees.

4.Cooperatives with a Social and Economic focus.

Questions:

If you have any questions pertaining to the completion of the application form, please contact UNDP’s EGP Project Implementation Unit in Ramallah and Gaza, as well as your local MLG offices for advice (see contact details below).

Submittal of applications:

1.For all local governmental units and joint services, application and sector specific forms can be obtained from the Ministry of Local Government premises (General Administration of Projects) in El Bireh or Local Government District Departments located in the West Bank. Applications should be submitted in two copies to the Ministry of Local Government district departments in the West Bank.

2.For Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations as well as Refugee Camp Committees, applications can be obtained from the following UNDP offices:

West Bank: The applications can be obtained and delivered to UNDP Offices:

Jerusalem – 3a Ya Kubi St., Tel: 02-6268200, Fax: 02-6268222/3

Ramallah – UNDP/PAPP Office - EGP PIU / UN Common Premises

Telephone: 02-298-4325, Fax: 02-2984320.

Email: [email protected]

Gaza Strip: The applications can be obtained and delivered to UNDP Offices:

UNDP/PAPP Office - Omar Bin Abdel Aziz Street, Al Remal, Gaza City

Telephone: 08- 282-2167, Fax: 08-2822021.

Email: [email protected]

In addition, the application form can be downloaded from UNDP/PAPP’s website:

http://www.ps.undp.org/content/papp/en/home/operations/procurement/under Procurement Notices.

Once the application, the sector specific and the operation and maintenance plan forms are downloaded from the UNDP website, kindly contact the UNDP office in Ramallah for an application number. Your application will not be valid without an application number.

Applications can be obtained beginning Sunday the 22nd of February 2015, and deadline for submissions is Tuesday the 7th of April 2015.

No applications will be accepted after the deadline.