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Strengthening Civic Advocacy And Local Engagement (scale) Innovation Fund
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Tenders are invited for Strengthening civic advocacy and local engagement (scale) innovation fund
The USAID-funded Nigeria Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) (the Project ), implemented by Palladium, is seeking to issue grants under the SCALE Innovation Fund (SIF) to at least 10 organizations to promote citizens and government engagement towards creating a more accountable, transparent peaceful, and democratic Nigeria with more effective and efficient service delivery across the project’s priority sectors. Nigerian CSOs, BMOs, Media organizations, research institutions, and social enterprises are encouraged to submit concept papers for consideration for the award. In line with USAID’s New Partnerships Initiative, organizations that have not worked on USAID-funded projects are strongly encouraged to apply
The Nigeria Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) project is a five-year project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Palladium through a cooperative agreement with USAID. The goal of the project is to improve public accountability, transparency, and sustainable service delivery in Nigeria. The strategic objective is to strengthen the financial, management, and advocacy capacity of local civil society organizations (CSOs) and business membership organizations (BMOs) in Nigeria to create a more accountable, transparent, peaceful, and democratic Nigeria with more effective and efficient public service delivery. The Project emphasizes leadership and innovation and explicitly aims to engage marginalized populations, including women, youth, persons with disabilities, and other minorities in the process. The project has five main components: 1. Improve Organizational Capacity; Managerial, Financial, and Institutional capacity. 2. Enhance Capacity for Improved CSOs/BMOs Advocacy, Collaboration, and Management. 3. Improve the Policy and Regulatory Enabling Environment for Civil Society. 4. Countering Trafficking in Persons (CTIP); and 5. Sector (SGBV, Child and Early Forced Marriage) Strengthening and Advocacy SCALE’s theory of change states that the project goals can be achieved IF: (i) CSO capacity (managerial, financial, and advocacy) is enhanced; AND (ii) CSOs collaborate effectively with each other and with government; AND (iii) the CSO enabling environment is permissive (legislative, policy, and practice); THEN: civil society can effectively engage citizens to influence government in key development reforms at national, state, and local levels to improve public accountability, transparency, and sustainable service delivery. The key assumptions in the theory of change are based on there being a conducive environment for CSOs and BMOs to influence policies in transparency, accountability, and good governance; CSOs and BMOs being able to sustain activities with local capacities and resources that promote transparency, accountability, and good governa |