ToR – Award Of Grants For Peacebuilding Interventions To Mitigate Conflicts In Nine Niger Delta States

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The changing dynamics of violent conflict and insecurity in the Niger Delta is mainly driven by a variety of interrelated and often overlapping conflict risk factors including historical tensions and a proliferation of armed groups (militant, criminal, and ethno-sectarian). Conflict issues include communal tensions, political competition, organized criminality, and resource-based conflicts. Incidents include cultism, election violence, militancy, piracy, communal violence, land disputes, armed robbery, kidnapping, human trafficking, illicit drug trafficking/abuse, and mob violence. According to data on the P4P Peace Map, criminal violence, communal conflict over land and boundary disputes, clashes between herders and farmers over access to land and water resources, clashes between cult gangs, political violence, separatist agitation, and human rights violations including sexual violence and human child trafficking are major drivers of lethal violence and insecurity in the region.

To reduce conflict over the long term, PIND launched the Partners for Peace (P4P) Network in 2013, with the intention of engaging and empowering local actors in peacebuilding and conflict mitigation. The P4P was designed to build capacity, social capital, and local ownership among key stakeholder groups in the Niger Delta through the facilitation of a platform by which men, women, and youth can work together to promote peace in their communities. In 2015, PIND established the Integrated Peace and Development Unit (IPDU) to implement peacebuilding programs to provide operational level support to the P4P and other organizations through: research, capacity building and applied learning aimed at early targeting and mitigation of potential drivers of conflict and instability. Since 2015, PIND through the IPDU has implemented a number of peacebuilding and conflict mitigation interventions, leveraging its conflict early warning infrastructure and its vast network of peace actors including community-based organizations (CBOs) in the Niger Delta. Drawing on the lessons learned from these past interventions, and considering current trends of conflict and insecurity, PIND now wants to implement a series of targeted interventions to mitigate prevailing and emerging conflict issues in the nine (9) states of the Niger Delta.

The objectives of the grants are as follows:

1. To research and identify the underlying causes and drivers of the prevailing conflict in specific communities in the target States.
2. To utilize evidence-based information generated from research to design and implement conflict mitigation and peacebuilding interventions to proactively address the deeper drivers of the conflict in target communities and LGAs.
3. To identify systems, structures, and leverage institutions in the target communities and LGAs to engender sustainable peacebuilding, social cohesion and economic cooperation.
4. To strengthen existing community-based structures and create new platforms to support dialogue between stakeholders in the target States.
5. To build capacities of local peace actors in targeted communities for enhanced conflict mitigation.
6. To contribute to conflict reduction, and an overall increase in peace and safety in the Niger Delta.

The purpose of this assignment is for the grantees to design, implement and monitor peacebuilding intervention in each Niger Delta state towards managing conflicts, mitigating violence and increasing the overall indices of peace and safety in the Niger Delta.

Civil Society Organizations operating in any of the Niger Delta States are encouraged to apply, especially those with experience in implementing peacebuilding projects. However, there will be additional consideration for organizations that are based in the target States. All P4P, and female led organizational members are encouraged to apply.

Interested organizations should submit a technical proposal, including a detailed monitoring and evaluation plan and a budget to procurement@pindfoundation.org with the subject heading ‘PIND Peacebuilding Grant 2024_State’ along with the mandatory item/supporting documents listed below not later than June 21st 2024 by 5PM Nigerian time. The proposal should focus on the conflict issue identified in Table 1. It should also be based on the intervention proposed for each state. It should be narrowed down to specific communities and local governments that are hotspots of prevailing conflicts in the state. Proposals received in response to this call will be reviewed internally, and after due verifications, the most promising proposals are selected and recommended for approval. Due to the volume of proposals expected, only successful applicants will be contacted. We will not be able to provide feedback on unsuccessful bids. After selection of grantees, their contracting will be based on their approved proposal and budget.

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