Background

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) is implemented by UNDP on behalf of the GEF Partnership. UNDP oversees the Small Grants Programme (SGP) through the Vertical Hub and the Nature Hub of BPPS. Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Small Grants Programme efficiently channels direct grants to non-governmental and community-based organizations to help them cope with climate change; conserve biodiversity; protect international waters; reduce the impact of Persistent Organic Pollutants; and prevent land degradation. Helping communities with their initiatives for sustainable livelihoods while generating global environmental benefits is the core inspiration of the Small Grants Programme.

Launched in 1992 as a corporate programme of the GEF, the GEF Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) has supported local action for over thirty years to address global environmental concerns. SGP aims to deliver global environmental benefits in the GEF focal areas of biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, protection of international waters, prevention of land degradation, and elimination of persistent organic pollutants through community-based approaches. To date, SGP has funded over 29,000 community-based projects covering more than 120 countries. It has gained considerable experiences at the community level, including adapting to climate change while addressing issues of the GEF focal areas. Further information can be found at: https://sgp.undp.org/.

Scope of Work

Support Programme implementation

• Contribute to day-to-day programme/project implementation, ensuring conformity to expected results, outputs, objectives and work-plans.
• Assist the National Coordinator (NC) in prescreening project concepts and project proposals and evaluate the financial part of the project proposals.
• Assist the NC in development and revision of grant application forms and other management tools, requirements of the programme, and other SGP documents.
• Advise potential grantees on project preparation processes and guidelines, and report to NC and National Steering Committee (NSC) on project development activities, as required.
• Provide day-to-day support and guidance to new and ongoing projects and its grantees, as required.
• Assist the NC in project implementation, matters related to the grievance redress mechanism, monitoring and evaluation, including participation in field visits.
• Support organization and preparation of minutes of NSC meetings and other SGP events.
• Maintain contacts and professional working relationship with NGOs, governmental institutions, donors, other SGP stakeholders.
• Assist NC in reporting regularly to the Central Programme Management Team (CPMT), United Nations Development Programme Country Office (UNDP CO), and assist NC in timely preparation of annual monitoring survey, and other CPMT, UNDP surveys and reports as required.
• Support the NC in meeting relevant M&E requirements (e.g. Project Implementation Report (PIR), Midterm Review (MTR) and Terminal Evaluation (TE)
• Draft memos and other operational documents on behalf of NC and respond to queries on SGP programme matters.
• Regularly update and maintain SGP project database as well as stakeholders’ database.