CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST – COMMUNITY ORGANIZED GROUPS
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Deadline: January 30, 2025
Visibilize4ClimateAction (V4CA) Project
Introduction
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a non-profit organization committed to transforming lives in Africa through research. APHRC conducts policy-relevant research in population and health to generate high-quality evidence to inform decisions for sustainable responses to Africa’s challenges. In collaboration with CIFOR-ICRAF, the University of Nairobi (UoN), PELUM Kenya, LSHTM, Oxford University, Loughborough University, and Kenyan government ministries, APHRC is undertaking the Visibilize4ClimateAction (V4CA) project, focusing on the impact of climate change on nutrition and mental health in East African drylands.
Project Focus
The V4CA project seeks to highlight climate change's effects on vulnerable populations in East Africa's drylands (Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Tanzania). It aims to catalyze climate policy and practice changes, focusing on climate adaptation and mitigation measures like agroecology, agroforestry, and rangeland management. Public engagement will be conducted in Turkana, Samburu, and Laikipia counties in Kenya.
Objective
APHRC is recruiting Community Organized Groups (COGs) in Turkana North and Kibish, Samburu Central, and Laikipia West counties for public engagement activities on climate change’s impact on food security, health, and mental health. COGs will be trained in climate action, food security, public engagement, project management, and communication.
Project Period: February 2024 – February 2027 (36 months)
Implementation Areas: Turkana, Samburu, Laikipia counties in Kenya
Eligibility Criteria
Registered with national or county authorities.
Experience in field-level activities in target counties.
Proven partnership with local communities or government agencies.
Experience in community-based interventions related to food security, nutrition, climate change, or health.
Capacity for public engagement (e.g., agroecology, agroforestry, rangeland management).
Previous engagement with project partners is a plus.
Selection Process
Submission of Expression of Interest (EoI).
Verification and interviews for shortlisted COGs.
Training of shortlisted COGs.
Submission of proposals.
Funding: Seed grants of KES 500,000 for selected COGs.
Duration: 18 months.
Application Procedure
Complete Expression of Interest (EoI) form.
Fill organizational profile and other forms (Appendices 1-5).
Submit completed documents via email to consultancies@aphrc.org with subject: “Expression of Interest in the Visibilize4ClimateAction Project.”
Closing Date for EoI Submission: January 30, 2025.
Special Notice
APHRC is an equal opportunity employer and commits to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Accommodations may be provided for applicants with disabilities. No payments are required during the recruitment process.
For more details and to submit your EoI, please visit: Visibilize4ClimateAction
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The African Population and Health Research Centre is the continent’s premier research institution and think tank, generating evidence to drive policy action to improve the health and wellbeing of African people.
As a progressive African-led global research center invested in creating legacy impact, our work is centered in three integrated programmatic divisions:
Research: Our teams orient their research agendas to global and continental development priorities bringing independent evidence to the forefront of decisions supporting improved growth and development in the region. The center’s research priorities fall within six thematic units: Aging and Development; Education and Youth Empowerment; Health and Systems for Health; Maternal and Child Wellbeing; Population Dynamics and Sexual Reproductive Health and; Urbanization and Wellbeing in Africa. Anchoring the six is our Data, Measurement and Evaluation Unit providing internal support for robust data systems and outward looking technical assistance in program evaluation and data use.
Research capacity strengthening: Through strategic partnerships, the Center strives to nurture African research leadership by building a critical mass of researchers to meaningfully engage with policy actors in developing, reviewing and implementing policies and programs relevant to the continent’s development.
Policy engagement and communications: The Center builds relationships with key decision-making bodies at the national, regional and global levels to encompass engagements with government and non-government entities, as well as academic, advocacy and research institutions: all in service to our agenda of ensuring contextual, relevant and localized knowledge as a driver of change. Our goal is to become a continental model for robust, policy-oriented, rigorous research that emphasizes synergy and collaboration.
