Implementing Partnership for the Co-Funding Mechanism (CFM)

 

1                Timeline

CEI Reference number

IP2025020

Posted (date)

4 August 2025

Clarification Request Deadline

10 August 2025

Application Deadline

15 August 2025

Notification of Results       

In two weeks (TBC)

Implementation Start Date

As soon as possible

Implementation End Date

In 12 months (TBC)

 

2                Locations

Tripoli municipality, Lebanon (the project will cover the entire geographical scope governed by the Tripoli municipality. The specific 10 communities will be selected by the Municipality, IOM, UNDP UNICEF and other stakeholders and shared with the selected Implementing Partners (IP).)

 

3                Sector(s) and area(s) of specialization

                Implementation of the Co-funding Mechanism for Community Initiatives

 

4                Issuing Agency

 IOM

 

5                Project Background

The PBF-funded project is implemented by IOM, UNDP and UNICEF. This project seeks to strengthen social peace and stability in Tripoli by engaging adolescents and youth in targeted municipal governance and community-driven initiatives. The project will utilize the Lebanon Tension Monitoring System to assess social tensions, focusing on analyzing political narratives, hate speech, and gender issues. Building on this, youth engagement and representation at the municipal level will be strengthened through youth-focused Mechanisms for Stability and Local Development (MSLD) consultations that seek to identify tensions and community priorities. 

Building on the MSLD consultations, the project will implement the Youth Leadership Programme (YLP), through which participants will identify, plan, and implement youth-focused projects that seek to address the causes of tension and contribute to social stability, while supporting municipality participation, and effective oversight to help promote the legitimacy of local authorities. To complement this, the project will train youth (50% female) in employment and life skills (social cohesion, teambuilding) enhancing their livelihood prospects and reducing their vulnerabilities while mitigating one of the main drivers of instability (a lack of livelihood opportunities). Under this project, the leadership and wellbeing of adolescent girls and young women will be prioritized through adopting a girl-centered strategy for skills development, which involves:

Prioritizing girls' involvement by placing them at the forefront of design, implementation, monitoring, and learning processes; Customizing the program to meet girls' specific needs, such as offering tailored training, caregiver engagement and protection services;  Increase in female participation in traditionally male-dominated fields such as construction (carpentry, car mechanics, electromechanical, solar systems, etc.) and IT (coding); and Roll out of a tailored and gender transformative adolescent girls’ empowerment package which addresses the basic life skills that adolescent girls in difficult conditions could need such as (trust and support, assertive communication in healthy relationships, self-esteem, and confidence, coping with stress and dealing with emotions, problem solving and decision making, and safety in GBV contexts).

Within this PBF-funded project, it also supports long term sustainability and financial viability of the community projects, the innovative Co-Funding Mechanism (CFM) will be implemented to facilitate community-led management of priority projects and strengthen diaspora engagement and financial contributions. The CFM will enable the communities to identify, fundraise for, cofinance, and jointly implement a community priority of their choice, with the support of diaspora, based on a set criterion. 

The selected implementing partner will engage with this CFM to ensure a community-led approach with transparency and inclusion to promote social cohesion. The selected implementing partner will be requested to coordinate closely with IOM, UNICEF and UNDP as well as target communities, government agencies, community groups, and other stakeholders.

6                Expected Results

  • 10 Community-based planning (CBP) is complemented and organized jointly with IOM, UNDP and UNICEF, and 10 CBP reports are endorsed by the communities, IOM and other relevant stakeholders, indicating one selected community initiative per community.  
  • 10 Community committees receive capacity building training on, in line with IOM guidance and guideline*,
    • Needs assessment and identification
    • Fund raising
    • Procurement
    • Finance
    • Community engagement, monitoring and maintenance
    • Conflict resolution
    • Other topics agreed among IP, communities and IOM
  • Support the outreach to diaspora and communities.
  • Identify available fund raising platform in Lebanon and use a selected platform fundraising for community initiatives.  
  • 10 community committees are supported to successfully fund raise from people in Lebanon and/or diaspora for the selected community initiatives.
  • 10 community initiatives are implemented and completed in Tripoli.
  • 10 community initiatives are monitored, and community committees are supported for sustainability.

 

*IP is requested to provide the venue in each community and refreshments of the training. Transportation fees are in general not provided for the movement within a community.

 

 

7                Indicative Budget

Maximum USD 75,600: the amount includes 1) staff/office cost of IP, 2) CBP and capacity building training, coordination, reporting, monitoring and other relevant costs incurred at IP. It does not include the cost of community initiatives, which will be agreed in another agreement including the amount from fund raising and the amount from IOM.  

 

8                Other Information

The main role of the implementing partner is to support community committees that will take a lead of community initiatives, including providing capacity building to community committees, providing a platform to community committees for fund raising, and take a legal role to make a contract for community initiatives as required. IP will be responsible for ensuring accountability to communities and stakeholders as well as transparency in fund raising and any other activities under the project.

Close coordination and consensus with IOM will be required in every step, in addition to close coordination with UNDP, UNICEF, the government, communities, community committees, vendors, among others.

 

 

9                Selection Criteria 

 

Name

Description

Weight

 

Relevance of proposal to achieving expected results

  • Relevance of proposal to achieving expected results;
  • Expertise on budgeting, communication, negotiation and participation skills;
  • Expertise and experience in developing and delivery of training programmes and capacity building for CSOs and public institutions;
  • Adequacy and clarity of the proposed budget (including contribution by the prospective IP);
  • Relevant technical expertise and experience in working with a different range of stakeholders at a national and local level in establishing a youth-sensitive perspective across sectors

20

 

Sustainability of intervention

  • Experience in partnering with key institutions related to youth and adolescent participation and development;
  • Management ability;
  • Sustainability of intervention.

20

 

Local presence and accountability

  • Existing presence and experience in Tripoli
  • Experience with conducting with accountability to beneficiaries/communities in Tripoli

 

20

 

Inclusivity

  • Gender mainstreaming skills to apply during implementation of the programmes;
  • Good familiarity with political and social environments in Tripoli
  • Mainstreaming the inclusion of persons with disabilities
  • Proven experience in conflict sensitivity
  • Experience with conducting rights principles such as inclusion and equality,

20

Financial capacity and transparency

  • Proven capacity in financial management of projects;

20

 

   10       Attachments

 

Description

ANNEX A – Terms of Reference

ANNEX B - Implementing Partner References Checklist

ANNEX C - Implementing Partners General Information Questionnaire

ANNEX D - Concept Note Template

ANNEX E – Budget Template (click here).

ANNEX F – Declaration of Conformity for Partners

 

12 For more information on this partnership opportunity, and to apply, please visit: https://www.iom.int/countries/lebanon

The organizations responding to this call need to demonstrate their capacity to implement all listed activities as a single package. Partial applications for individual activities will not be considered.

IOM reserves the right to cancel/reduce the scope of planned activities or to introduce new/broaden the scope of the existing activities. Selected Implementing partner needs to be ready to develop a detailed budget based on submitted proposal in two weeks upon receiving the notification from IOM.

All applicants will receive written notification, within the two weeks after the deadline for the submission of Concept Note, of the outcome of the selection process. Should an applicant request further clarification, IOM will provide a response explaining the transparency and integrity of the selection process undertaken.

IOM reserves the right to decline disclosure of the specificity of decision derived by the IOM mission due to reasons related to confidentiality.

IOM reserves the right to accept or reject any Expression of Interest, and to annul the selection process and reject all Expression of Interest at any time, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected Implementing Partners.

For more information, please contact in writing (recbey@iom.int).

Call Type
Call for Proposals
Organisation
International Organization For Migration
Intervention Sectors
Labor & Livelihoods
How to Apply

Expression of Interest submission guidelines

This document contains instructions on the preparation and submission of the Application including Annex A: IP Information.

  1. The Application must be submitted by email to (recbey@iom.int) no later than 15 August 2025. Late Application will no longer be considered.
  2. A detailed description must be provided on how the requirements specified in the Call for Expression of Interest (CEI) issued by IOM will be matched by the capabilities, experience, knowledge and expertise of the Implementing Partners
  3. The Application must be submitted in one original and one copy and envelope must be marked “Original” and “Copy” as appropriate. If there are any discrepancies between the original and the copy the original governs. Both envelopes shall be placed in an outer envelope and sealed. The outer envelope shall be labeled with the submission address, reference number and title of the Project and name of the Implementing Partner.
  4. The Application must be submitted in the English language and in the format prescribed by IOM within the CEI. All required information must be provided, responding clearly and concisely to all the points set out. Any application which does not fully and comprehensively address this CEI requirements may be rejected.
  5. The Application document should comprise of the following:
    1. Cover Letter;
    2. Duly accomplished application documentation as outlined within the CEI signed on all pages by the prospective Implementing Partner’s Authorized Representative; and
    3. Any other relevant documents
  6. Applications may be modified or withdrawn in writing, prior to the closing time specified in this Request for EoI. Applications shall not be modified or withdrawn after the deadline.
  7. The Implementing partner shall bear all costs associated with the preparation and submission of the Application and IOM will not in any case be responsible and liable for the costs incurred.
  8. IOM at no occasion will ask an application fee from Implementing Partners.
  9. Partners can use IOM's We Are All In platform for reporting fraud, corruption or misconduct.  
  10. All information given in writing to or verbally shared with the Implementing Partners in connection with this CEI is to be treated as strictly confidential. The Implementing Partner shall not share or invoke such information to any third party without the prior written approval of IOM. This obligation shall continue after the selection process has been completed whether or not the Implementing Partner application is successful.
  11. IOM will treat all information (or that marked proprietary/sensitive/financial) received from Implementing Partners as confidential and any personal data in accordance with its Data Protection Principles.
  12. The Implementing Partner, by submitting an application, gives consent to IOM to share information with those who need to know for the purposes of evaluating and managing the proposal.
  13. By submitting the application/expression of interest, the applicant confirms adherence to IOM’s Declaration of Conformity Form and acknowledges receipt of the list of Proscribed Practices (enclosed).
  14. IOM reserves the right to accept or reject any Application, and to cancel the process and reject all Applications, at any time without thereby incurring any liability to the affected Implementing Partner or any obligation to inform the affected Implementing partner of the ground for IOM’s action.

 

Deadline
Countries
Lebanon