.I. Background:

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) provides civil society and community-based organizations (CSOs/CBOs) in developing countries with grants to enable them to tackle global environmental challenges while addressing local sustainable development needs. SGP is a GEF corporate programme, implemented by UNDP and executed by UNOPS. SGP Tanzania started financing projects in 1995. Since then, it has succeeded in funding and providing technical support for more than 367 grant projects. This call for proposals is to solicit civil society organizations to put forward proposals that help SGP undertake a preparatory process to develop its strategy for OP7. This will involve multi-stakeholder consultations, development of baseline assessment(s) of priority identified landscape(s)/seascape(s), and elaboration of the Country Programme Strategy (CPS) for OP7 in close coordination with the SGP National Coordinator and National Steering Committee in Tanzania. The key steps in this preparatory process and the key deliverables expected are described in detail below.
This process will include:
1. Communications, outreach and capacity development about OP7 and its strategic initiatives
2. Multi-stakeholder consultations
3. Selection of the landscape/seascape area(s) of focus
4. Grant-making outside the selected landscape/seascape