Tenders Are Invited For Consultancy On Innovative Funding Mechanism For Locally-Led Responses

Tenders are invited for Consultancy on Innovative Funding Mechanism for Locally-Led Responses. Closing Date: 30 Apr 2025 Type: Consultancy DCA, as one of the founding organisations of Charter for Change and signatory to the Grand Bargain, and with a long tradition for empowering and partnering with civil society organisations is strongly committed to localisation and local leadership (L&LL). This commitment is articulated in DCAs Localisation Framework[1] which is built around four key pillars Equitable Partnerships; Capacity Strengthening; Financial Resources and Support; and Coordination, Policy and Advocacy. This commitment is further mirrored in DCAs Global Strategy and across its Global Goals; Save Lives, Build Resilient Communities, and Fight Extreme Inequality, and Create Engagement. DCA has a long tradition of working as partnership-based and practising localisation in both stable and fragile contexts. DCA currently works with some 200 partners globally and provides 24% of its humanitarian funding and 30% of its development funding directly to local partners and community-led initiatives, including women-led, youth-led and faith-based organisations. Among the partnership models and funding mechanisms DCA utilises to channel quality funding directly to locally-led responses and strengthen localisation and local leadership across our reach, include: localised consortia models, locally-led anticipatory action, network based solutions, flexible concessional funding, and the survivor and community-led response (sclr[2]) approach which includes elements of Group Cash Transfer (GCT). DCA has also been piloting and supporting a number of innovative and inherently locally-led partnership models through its innovation initiativesthis study will seek to capture learnings from such models to inform future practice and influence broader system actors. At a time of unprecedented funding cuts that threaten humanitarian and development work and the very existence of local and national NGOs at a time of unprecedented need and protracted crises - gains made on localisation are at risk. Those who suffer the most from these developments are the marginalised: grassroots civil society, vulnerable populations and human rights defenders. According to a recent ICVA Survey on the impact of US funding cuts, some 11 L/NGOs have already closed and 204 have had to reduce operations. Yet, opportunities exist to harness the current recalibration needed, in furthering the localisation agenda. DCA continues to pursue ambitious pathways to further strengthen its L&LL approach, in shifting increasing power and resources to local actors, and is seeking an expert consultant to support in developing analysis to explore enhanced innovative funding mechanisms that could be pursued and supported in furtherance of the localisation agenda, across the HDP Nexus. In pursuing innovation, DCA supports the transition from traditional top-down models of delivery towards more inclusive, community-driven solutions, recognising that in the realm of innovation, there exists a spectrum of creativity ranging from subtle adaptations to paradigm-shift revolutions. Four distinct categories illuminate this spectrum: implementing existing solutions in new contexts, incremental innovation, radical innovation and disruptive innovation. For this study we are interested in especially the first three tiers.[3] We are also particularly keen to understand how our locally-led consortia models can be documented, strengthened and scaled, and how they can be positioned as a fundraising and influence tool for DCA, partners and donors alike. Furthermore, digitalizationsuch as in cash programming and trends like direct giving offer promising avenues for transformative funding flows. The study should also explore how digital technologies can support and accelerate localization, including opportunities for DCA and other actors to engage. Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4145847/consultancy-innovative-funding-mechanism-locally-led-responses