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Request for Expression of Ideas for Resource Mobilization for Education in Emergencies and Protracted Crises
Organization: Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
Apply By: 31 Jul 2018
Request for Expression of Ideas for Resource Mobilization for Education in Emergencies and Protracted Crises
Overview
Education Cannot Wait (ECW), hosted in UNICEF, is the new global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crisis. It brings education to children and youth affected by conflict and post-conflict situations, natural disaster, refugee situations and displacement. It was established with an ambitious fundraising target of US$3.725 billion by 2021 to help fill a financing gap for education in emergencies and protracted crises of an estimated US$ 8.5 billion per year. This gap cannot be closed with traditional sources of humanitarian and development finance alone, but requires big new ideas to bring in new and additional sources of finance.
ECW, represented through UNICEF, runs a resource mobilization challenge (the “Challenge”) to identify bold ideas to help address this financing gap for education in emergencies and protracted crises. Ideas should be substantive and have the potential to raise at least US$50 million per year continually (or US$100 million total once, if a onetime effort). Ideas should allow the provision of grant funding for education as ECW is committed to providing equal and free education.)
The Challenge will have two stages.
First, ECW, represented through UNICEF, will ask for the Submission of an Expression of Ideas (EOI) and select the best and most innovative ideas capable of being implemented.
Second, ECW, represented through UNICEF, will request submitters of the selected ideas to provide a more detailed proposal to turn their idea into a business plan. At this second stage, ECW will seek to validate whether submitters of the best ideas have the capacity to deliver the business plan for the idea submitted. Validation will be based on the quality of a outline of the proposed business plan and based on a technical writing sample submitted. In addition, ECW will check if submitters fulfill the required criteria to be awarded a UNCEF contract under the challenge. This document spells out the Terms of Reference for the first stage, the Request for EOI (REOI).
Requirements
ECW, represented through UNICEF, is inviting companies and individuals to respond to this REOI for large scale resource mobilization for education in emergencies and protracted crisis. This REOI will lead to a Request for Proposal (RFP) issued to eligible institutions, organizations, individuals, or teams of individual consultants to provide a business plan for their idea. The RFP process will result in the award of Institutional/individual contracts with successful vendors for a period of three months. Shortlisted organizations, institutions and/or individuals will be notified within three months after EOI closing date. Only submitters of shortlisted ideas will be contacted and thereafter invited to the RFP or Selection Process. Awards will be made for funding of up to US$25,000 for each business plan.
Eligibility to Participate:
Organizations, individuals and teams of individuals are eligible to respond to the REOI.
- Companies
- Non-Profit Organizations
- Academic institutions, universities and think tanks
- Foundations
- UN Organizations
- Individuals. (UN staff members and their family members would be required to seek clearance from the Ethics Office for engaging in activities of commercial interest outside of their official UN functions.)
- Teams of eligible Individuals. If applying as a team, the team will identify one individual responsible for submitting the EOI, naming participating team members and corresponding with ECW.
Participants in the Challenge can reside anywhere.
Organizations that are on the United Nations or World Bank sanctions list are not eligible participate.
Requirements for Proposed Resource Mobilization Ideas
The ideas submitted must fulfill the following criteria:
- Bold and large-scale: Ideas should be substantive and have the potential to raise at least US$50 million per year if they are for a continual resource mobilization effort or US$100 million total once, if they for a onetime resource mobilization effort)
- Grant funding: Education in emergencies and protracted crisis requires grant funding as ECW supports children and youth with free education. The proposed idea should mobilize resources that lend themselves to finance free education.
- Funding for education in emergencies and protracted crisis: Resources mobilized should be without restrictions to finance education in emergencies and protracted crisis in countries affected by conflict and war, natural disasters, pandemics, or refugee crisis and internal displacement.
- New sources of finance: ECW is seeking to identify and tap non-traditional sources of financing beyond bilateral donor contributions and mainstream philanthropy. Proposed ideas should not compete with or crowd out existing funding for education in emergencies.
- ECW mission and humanitarian principles: Resources mobilized should not conflict with the ECW vision to create a world where all children and youth affected by crisis can learn free of cost, in safety an without fear in order to grow and reach the full potential. They also should not conflict with the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence
C. Submission of Idea
Interested proposers that meet the eligibility criteria are required provide a Submission by completing and submitting the EOI Submission form and provide the information and supporting documents indicated in the form. EOI Submission forms must be submitted through http://www.educationcannotwait.org/challenge by July 31, midnight in New York.
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