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Call for Proposals to Support Organisational Development of the Caucasus Network for Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions

Aug 2021

The Caucasus Network for Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions (Sustainable Caucasus) in terms of the ongoing project Strengthening the Climate Adaptation Capacities in the South Caucasus (SCAC) is pleased to announce the call for proposals — to Support Organisational Development of the Caucasus Network for Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions (Sustainable Caucasus).

Sustainable Caucasus comprises a small team of people based in Baku (Azerbaijan), Tbilisi (Georgia), and Yerevan (Armenia), which is guided by a five-member Board. Five years after its inception, Sustainable Caucasus's management decided to address the capacity needs of the organisation, and to define ways of both meetings emerging challenges related to the implementation of its mission and building-up its organisational sustainability. Therefore, in June 2019, Sustainable Caucasus undertook an organisational self-assessment process, which revealed four organisational development priorities to be tackled in the coming years.

The purpose of the call is to support Sustainable Caucasus in tackling the objectives set to address the priorities identified and described in the Organisation Development Options and, therefore, within four LOTs to ensure:

1) Elaboration of the Vision and the Strategy of the organisation for the next 5-10 years (LOT1);
2) Revision and alignment of the Communication Strategy with the Vision and Strategy of Sustainable Caucasus (LOT2);
3) Support for the systematisation of fundraising efforts and formulation of a policy of Sustainable Caucasus to increase the effectiveness of the fundraising process (LOT 3); and
4) Support for the introduction of a Full Cost Recovery (FCR) model (LOT 4).

We encourage the representatives of non-profit/private organisations or independent experts/teams of experts with extensive experience in organisational design, organisational development, change management, and diagnostic skills for non-profits (especially multi-country networks) to apply by sending required documents electronically to the following address: grants@sd-caucasus.com no later than 2 October 2021 (18:00 UTC/GMT + 4) or pass this announcement to others who might be also interested. Applicants may express their interest and thus apply for a single, several, or all the LOTs available under the call.

Deadline and Important Dates:
Opening of the competition                                27 August 2021
Closing of the competition                                  2 October 2021
Results notified from                                          1 November 2021
The signing of the agreements by                  13 November 2021

For any questions that are not answered in the call for proposal, please send an email to — Tamar Ioseliani (tioseliani@sd-caucasus.com).
Please find the detailed call description and corresponding annexes here