📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund - New York
Country: Armenia Funding amount: € 1.817.263,00 Project start: 01.10.2024 End: 30.09.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The project’s long-term objective/impact envisages that adolescents and communities are empowered to confront climate change and take joint practical action to address its impacts. This requires an increase in resilience to climate change through adaptation practices and global participation and in alignment with global, national, and local priorities and involves consultations with stakeholders.
Expected results
The expected outcome of the project envisages that adolescents, communities and educators become more climate change resilient and have stronger adaptive capacities to engage and foster synergies through policy changes, institutional capacity building, improved quality of service delivery, awareness-raising and promotion of climate action and positive behaviours.
Four inter-linked outputs are planned, focusing on bringing changes at the national and local levels, strengthening adolescent engagement in the school and community, while at the same time nurturing an increasingly aware and eco-conscious society.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The project targets 13,600 direct beneficiaries and 250,000 indirect beneficiaries in 300 settlements across Armenia's eight regions. Direct beneficiaries comprise 12,000 adolescents (7000 girls, 5000 boys, including those with disabilities), 600 teachers (75% female, 25% male), 800 education personnel (650 women and 150 men), youth workers, local authorities (200 community staff - 50 Women, 150 men) and civil society in 20 consolidated communities.
Key project partners include line ministries (Environment, Education and others), government agencies, sub-national authorities – regional and local governments - schools and CSOs. UN agencies, specifically WFP and UNDP, as well as other development partners will be engaged. Organizations specialized in disaster risk reduction/climate change, community development, youth engagement and education, including private businesses, will be potential implementing partners.
Activities
At the national level, UNICEF will primarily focus on the revision of the National Adaptation plan, making it more child-centric, gender-responsive and inclusive, operationalization of commitments under the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action and underpinning these changes by robust climate and disaster risk data, including on climate-induced illnesses as an increasingly emerging issue in Armenia. Communities will be supported in climate risk assessments to identify local vulnerabilities and needs, and to ensure these assessments are reflected in community development plans and budgets, thereby integrating climate considerations into local planning and digiting this data for sustainability. In these climate risk assessments, attention will also be given to mitigati
