Tenders are invited for Implementing Partnership for the Co-Funding Mechanism (CFM) Application Deadline: 15 August 2025 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. Tender Link : https://www.daleel-madani.org/calls-for-proposal
