UNDP's Youth Empowerment for Climate Action Platform (YECAP) aims to empower young people, especially women and Indigenous youth through environmental justice and legal empowerment. The initiative seeks to expand civic space, enhance awareness of environmental rights, and promote youth participation in climate governance

Objectives

• Recognize young people as active agents for social change and environmental and climate justice;
• Empower young people, including young women, Indigenous youth, to play active role in tackling the triple planetary crisis through the realization of their rights
• Strengthen support to young people to support the expansion of civic space and improve their impact to tackle the triple planetary crisis;
• Increased awareness of rights, international environmental legal frameworks, mechanisms and entry points for young people for climate and environmental action.

Scope

• The proposed activities will focus on strengthening solutions around environmental injustices for youth in Asia and the Pacific as well as building engagement to scale up the impact with a focus on expanding civic space, realization of their rights for achievement of environmental rule of law. This would include focus on the trainings aimed at youth to facilitate their environmental empowerment. Partners to be engaged will include youth organizations, civil society organizations, academics and other stakeholders relevant to empower and capacitate young people.

Duration

• The overall duration of work should be no more than 12 months between August 2025 to August 2026.

Eligible Activities

• The activities will include:
  • Conduct 4 trainings (2 in-person trainings and 2 virtual trainings) for youth through existing legal empowerment module in collaboration with youth networks in 4 countries (Nepal- In Person Training, Pakistan – In-Person Training, Indonesia- Virtual Training and Bangladesh- Virtual Training,) with training of local youth leaders as "Climate Champions" who can cascade knowledge to peers in their own networks
  • Dissemination of the training modules to larger networks, including ecosystem partners, CSOs and youth networks
  • Launch coordinated social media campaigns highlighting local environmental issues, youth led solutions with greater call to action ahead of COP 30 with joint coordination mechanism across the four countries for aligned messaging at COP 30
  • Assist in drafting of youth-perspective on NDC implementation and climate ambitions in countries of implementation

Eligibility Criteria

• Minimum Qualification Requirements
  • Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in the areas of youth empowerment, skills development, community building, social entrepreneurship and raising awareness of SDGs.
  • Should have successfully implemented at least 2 projects of similar nature must be of value notless than US$40,000/- each in the last 3 years.
  • Bidder Must have an Average annual turnover of USD 80,000 for the last two years. The turnover will be calculated on the basis of Audit Reports [2023 and 2024].
• A vendor who will be engaged by UNDP may not be suspended, debarred, or otherwise identified as ineligible by any UN Organization or the World Bank Group or any other international Organization. Vendors are therefore required to disclose to UNDP whether they are subject to any sanction or temporary suspension imposed by these organizations. Failure to do so may result in termination of any contract or PO subsequently issued to the vendor by UNDP.
• It is the Bidder’s responsibility to ensure that its employees, joint venture members, sub-contractors, service providers, suppliers and/or their employees meet the eligibility requirements as established by UNDP.
• Proposers must have the legal capacity to enter a binding contract with UNDP and to deliver in the country, or through an authorized representative.

Evaluation Criteria

• Highest Combined Score (based on the 70% technical offer and 30% price weight distribution) where the minimum passing score of technical proposal is 70%.
• Full acceptance of the UNDP Contract General Terms and Conditions (GTC). This is a mandatory criterion and cannot be deleted regardless of the nature of services required. Non- acceptance of the GTC may be grounds for the rejection of the Proposal.

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https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_negotiation.cfm?nego_id=36015