Call summary :

C Purpose:

The overall goal of this grant is to strengthen national and community capacities to improve people’s access to, and understanding of, early warning messages so they may take risk-informed action in the face of extreme weather or other high-priority hazards in Sudan.

The grant will focus on ensuring that early warning messages are grounded in robust risk knowledge, and are co-created and contextualized, understood by communities and effectively acted upon. This will be done through understanding the information gaps and barriers at community level, improving the ability of communities to act upon early warning messages, and developing sub-national scale early action plans (EAPs) in target communities.

Notwithstanding the volatile context in Sudan owing to the conflict, two States are envisaged for prioritization: River Nile State and Northern State. Indicative areas under this grant include: Nadi (in Berber District), Al Sadabiya (in Shendi District), Al Gilaiaat (in the Al Matammah district) and Kalli (in the Atbara district). Applicants are invited to propose adjustments to these targets States and Areas, and/or propose other States and Areas feasible within the context of the resource envelope for this grant. Core criteria for target area selection is access, security, community demand, linkages to existing emergency weather and EWS services being provided by Sudan’s development and humanitarian partners, and feasibility for achieving positive impacts and results for communities.

D Expected Outputs and Activities:

The following outputs and indicative activities are envisaged under this multi-purpose grant:

a/ In the context of the foregoing, the grantee will develop an inception report outlining specific activities, milestones, target audiences, and expected results for the duration of this grant. The inception report is limited to 10 pages.

b/ Synthesis of up-to-date diagnostics respecting the barriers to and opportunities for effective community-based early warning and early action systems in Sudan, adopting an appreciative inquiry approach to define activities to improve CBEWS performance based on robust evidence of impact across communities. Applicants are invited to adopt a participatory methodology to solicit inputs from key informants in Sudan involved in the provision and use of emergency early warning services. Emphasis should be placed on how to improve the interface between the generation of warnings and their uptake by communities to inform preparedness, prevention and other mitigative actions to avoid loss and damage from extreme weather events. The synthesis report will inform the co-prioritization of training, sensitization, and other activities to be delivered in cooperation with target communities. Synthesis report is limited to 15 pages and represents approximately 10% of grant resources.

c/ In collaboration with the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), NCCD, SMA and other national and regional partners, strengthen the evidence base for Community Early Action Protocols by co-defining warning thresholds for impact-based forecasts (IbF) based on evidence of loss and damage risk to assets, services, and infrastructure in the target areas, including tailored messaging to communities about effective mitigative actions which could be adopted. Development of up to four CEAPs is envisaged under this grant, representing 20% of grant resources.

d/ Associated with item (C) above, undertake risk data collation, rescue and synthesis of community-level loss and damage information, synthesis of effective community-led mitigative actions to avoid loss and damage (by hazard type). Grantee will consolidate findings and leverage the results to inform impact-based forecasting support being provided by Sudan’s development and humanitarian partners. Represents 20% of grant resources.

e/ In cooperation with the new Situation Room of the National Council for Civil Defence (NCCD), SMA and other partners, the grantee will undertake actions to improve the understanding of diverse stakeholders in the target communities of the contents of NCCD and SMA bulletins to inform community-led preparedness and early actions. This activity represents 30% of grant resources.

f/ Improve risk understanding among government and non-government actors on tools, approaches and applications for multi-hazard risk assessment by conducting two tailored trainings targeting 30 participants each (to be convened in Port Sudan or Nairobi subject to security clearances). This activity represents 20% of grant resources.

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G Budget and administrative-related aspects

The duration of the proposed project cannot exceed 16 months. The maxim