The aim of the Tamale UFI is to finance the co-design, co-construction and co-management of small-scale facilities (such as publics spaces, sports grounds, toilet blocks, gathering areas, market areas, etc.), in close collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs (MLGCRA) and the Tamale Municipal Assembly (TaMA).

Objectives

• The specific objectives are as follows:
  • Improve people’s resilience to floods and heat waves through the deployment of green public spaces and flood management infrastructure
  • Support the operationalization of public policy of participatory governance at the local level for a sustainable and inclusive project
  • Strengthen local governance capacity in the formulation and replication of resilient urban projects

Purpose 

• The UFI is designed as a component of the Sustainable Cities:  Tamale Urban Resilience Project operating as “a small project within a larger project”.
• While the larger project focuses on long-term and large-scale infrastructures, the UFI shall offer more immediate, smaller scale community-led interventions. UFI could “bridge the gap” between the Sustainable Cities:  Tamale Urban Resilience Project feasibility phase and the delivery of the infrastructure by:
  • Implementing complementary facilities to the Sustainable Cities:  Tamale Urban Resilience Project: while UFI interventions align with larger project’s broader objective and can contribute to the resilience of the settlements, it can also address needs of the community that might not be prioritized in the project.
  • Rapid and adaptable interventions: UFI shall implement smaller, quickly deployable projects like public spaces, playgrounds, or gathering spots, some of which might be removable and moved around to test different locations in the settlement, before and during larger project’s construction work. UFI projects often design their interventions to be flexible, allowing spaces to evolve as community needs and infrastructure demands change.
  • Pursue the community engagement initiated by Sustainable Cities:  Tamale Urban Resilience Project: UFI shall place a heavy emphasis on engaging local residents in co-design, in using and testing the spaces and in the management of those spaces. It will be able to pursue and extend the dialogue with the citizen panels installed through Sustainable Cities:  Tamale Urban Resilience Project, and beyond, by also engaging with the local associations and CBOs to create liveliness on the UFI sites, as well as contribute to the local management of these sites.
  • Learning & Testing: UFI shall help testing out facilities design and management solutions on a smaller scale, generating learning that Sustainable Cities:  Tamale Urban Resilience Project can later use for designing, maintaining and managing its larger infrastructure.

Components 

• Planed over a period of 6 years, the project is structured into 4 components:
  • Component 1: Investments to strengthen community resilience
    • Component 1.A: Green Roads
    • Component 1.B: Drainage infrastructure
    • Component 1.C: Green Public Spaces
    • Component 1.D: Bilpela Retention Pond Rehabilitation
  • Component 2: Citizen Participation and co-construction of solutions through the Urban Fabric Initiative a Component implemented through this call for initiatives
  • Component 3: Capacity Building of local authorities
  • Component 4: Project management

Funding Information 

• A budget of EUR 1 300 000 is dedicated to this UFI project and will be granted to one proposal only; this amount can cover 100% of the UFI budget, including taxes.
• Project Duration: The UFI shall be implemented in a maximum period of 36 months.

Eligibility Criteria 

• The Call for Proposals is opened to organizations (international and national Non-Governme
• ntal Organizations (NGO), Community Based Organizations, Civil Society Organizations (CSO)), and to consortiums formed by private companies and at least one CSO/NGO. This Call for Proposals aims to identify the UFI Operator to implement the Urban Fabric Initiative (UFI) in Tamale, Ghana, in close coordination with the MLGRD and TaMA.
• Geographical areas:
  • The UFI shall implement activities in each of the 4 communities of Tutingli, Nalung, Bilpela and Lamakara, targeted by the Sustainable Cities:  Tamale Urban Resilience Project.

For more information, visit AFD.

https://www.afd.fr/en/calls-for-projects/urban-fabric-initiatives-under-sustainable-cities-tamale-urban-resilience