Call for Proposals: CHILD Implementation Grants Programme for Children exposed to Drugs at a very Young Age or at risk of using Drugs
GRANTS PROGRAMME
Background
UNODC’s CHILD Project, GLOK42, was developed to promote a worldwide coordinated response to children and young adolescents at risk of using drugs and affected by drug use dependence. The project goals include addressing the health and social consequences for children, with the aim of preventing drug use, treatment and care for drug use disorders and facilitating their positive re-integration into and contribution to the larger community. More systemically, the CHILD Project focuses on providing technical assistance to national and local authorities working to address the needs of children and young adolescents within a planned system of integrated and mutually reinforcing activities, rather than a series of fragmented and competing initiatives. The multi-pronged approach includes structured psychosocial interventions and medically administered pharmacological therapy, when indicated.
Objectives
The objective of this Grants programme is to strengthen the capacity of civil society to prevent drug use globally using evidence-based drug prevention, treatment, care and rehabilitation interventions with a focus on children and young adolescents at risk of using drugs.
Thematic focus and priority issues
This Call for Proposals seeks to provide funding support to not-for-profit organizations working in the area of drug use prevention and treatment, care and rehabilitation, with staff trained on the CHILD Curriculum and whose projects are aimed at implementing evidence-based drug use prevention, treatment, care and rehabilitation programs for children and young adolescents actively using or at risk of using drugs in South American, Asian, and African Countries where the CHILD Curriculum training has been provided.
Location
Applicants from low- and middle-income countries in South America, Asia, or Africa that seek to implement projects for beneficiaries of the same country are eligible for grant funding. Countries are classified as low-, lower-middle- or upper-middle- income economies as according to the World Bank country classifications.
Duration
All activities financed by this Grants programme must be implemented within the period in the agreement (from 9 to up to 12 months). Depending on the proposed period in the agreement, the implementation of the activities must be completed latest by 1 December 2023.
Award amounts
Proposals with budgets from USD 10,000 up to USD 50,000, and not exceeding the organization’s annual income from the previous fiscal year will be considered for award. Please note that value for money will be assessed as a part of the rating criteria and proposed budgets should be expressed in USD.
As a general rule in UNOV/UNODC, grant awards should not exceed the organization’s annual income from the previous fiscal year.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Eligibility of applicants:
• The applicant is from low- or middle-income country in South America, Asia, or Africa;
• The applicant must have staff within their organization that have completed all six courses of the CHILD curriculum and at least one course of the CHILD Train the Trainer;
• The applicant must be a non-profit making organization (CSOs including NGOs, CBOs) registered for not less than two (2) years from the date of application under the relevant Laws of the country where it is registered;
• The applicant is directly responsible for the preparation and management of the project, i.e. not acting as an intermediary;
• The applicant has prior experience of at least two years implementing activities in the area of drug use prevention for children at risk of using drugs, treatment, care and rehabilitation for children with drug use disorders, health education, and/or other related field of work;
• The requested grant amount is less than the organization’s annual income from the previous year;
• The applicant has a bank account capable of receiving international deposit;
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
This Call for Proposals takes a phased-approach. Interested applicants are requested to submit a concept note (Annex 1) which will be reviewed by an Evaluation Panel composed of representatives from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, self-assessment of eligibility form (Annex 2) and partner declaration (Annex 3). Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by UNOV/UNODC with an invitation to submit a full project proposal and to register in the UN Partner Portal.
The application forms and annexes for each phase must be submitted either in English or in Spanish,
Concept note applications must be submitted electronically, by email to unodc-ptrs@un.org, marked
‘CHILD Implementation Grant 2022’ in the subject line.
The deadline for the submission of concept notes is 8 August 2022, 23:59 CEST
Obtain the Call for Proposals CHILD Grants; Application Form; Concept Note Application Form and Partner Declaration at https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/drug-prevention-and-treatment/news-and-events/2022/july/call-for-proposals_-child-implementation-grants-programme-for-children-exposed-to-drugs-at-a-very-young-age-or-at-risk-of-using-drugs.html
