Deadline Date: May 08, 2025
Donor Name: United Nation Environment Programme
Grant Size: Not Available
Category: Grant
Reference URL:https://www.unep.org/calls-for-proposals
The Global Child Project, managed by GGKP, aims to address the global and regional knowledge capacity of policy, finance and value chain actors to sustainably regulate, finance and reduce pesticides and plastics through its three core components – policy and enforcement, finance and investment, and value chains and public demand.
Objectives
- UNEP FI seeks proposals from suitable consulting organizations to provide technical assistance for addressing knowledge gaps and needs related to of Component 2: finance and investment of the FARM Global Child Project, specifically to develop a ‘Feasibility study for the development of a tool to support financial institutions in assessing the risks and impacts of chemicals and plastic pollution in their agriculture-related portfolios
Project Background
- FARM is a five-year, $341 million initiative, which seeks to reduce and manage the use of harmful pesticides and plastics in agricultural production and encourage the adoption of low- and non-chemical alternatives.
- In addition to the Global Child Project, FARM consists of seven child projects led by UNEP and implemented by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNIDO. The execution of the child projects is carried out in-country by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and relevant country institutions in Ecuador, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, the Philippines, Uruguay and Viet Nam.
Project Description
- Component 2, focused on finance and investment, aims to engage public and private finance actors to share and use FARM and FARM-related knowledge to reorient financial resources to the reduction and sound management of chemical and plastic pollution in the agriculture sector. This outcome will be achieved in two complementary efforts, one targeting private financial institutions (Output 2.1) and another focused on public finance actors and coordination with national child projects (Output 2.2).
Project requirements
- This technical assistance will be expected to include:
- Project planning
- Consultation to determine end-user (FI) profiles and needs
- Methodology configuration, for screening negative (and positive) impact, risk and opportunity categorization associated with agricultural chemicals and plastics
- Evaluation of existing frameworks and tools
