Call For Proposal For Promoting Social Healing, Social Cohesion And Resilience
Background:
The genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 deeply damaged the nation’s emotional and psychological health. Beyond the individual suffering, the genocide caused incalculable devastation to the Rwandan community’s fabric, upset reference systems, compromised familial and community organizations, and impaired individual psyches.
Recent reports indicate the psychosocial impact of the genocide on the Rwandan population
• The Rwanda Mental Health Survey (RMHS 2018) has shown that approximately 3.6 per cent of the Rwanda population and 28% of genocide survivors experiences Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• RMHS 2018 found 11.9% of the population and 35.6% of survivors have experienced a Major Depressive Episode (MDE)
• Among the prison population, research by the NGO “Dignity in Detention”, which was validated by the Rwandan Correctional Service, found over half of Rwandan prisoners suffered at least one psychological disorder, with 30% experiencing a major depressive episode and 14.5% suffering trauma.

• As time goes by, it is becoming increasingly clear that the consequences of the genocide are strongly impacting on the generation born after 1994. They are now by far the largest demographic, as over half of the current Rwandan population is under 20 years old.
• Individual healing from wounds caused by the genocide and divisive politics was identified as a sector that still hinders reconciliation efforts, and the RRB2020 show that it remains a challenge. The number of those who DO NOT feel healed yet, significantly climbed up from 4.6% (2015) to 26.9% in 2020; it was 17.1% in 2010
• A recent study analysed the potential contribution of high-level cognitive functioning and psychological health to positive attitudes towards social cohesion. It found that social cohesion requires a proneness to think analytically and openness to others – skills which are impaired by underlying mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety and trauma.
In response to the increasing need for community healing and building community resilience, Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement (MINUBUMWE) is inviting local organizations working in the field of healing and psychosocial support to submit their project proposal for addressing the psychosocial needs of the community and building community resilience.

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Eligible Projects
Desired Project proposals should target between 3 and 5 Districts (Districts must be in th same geographical area) and must show how to address the social healing and build community resilience and should focus on the following activities:
• Raise awareness on mental health challenges, promote healing, foster social cohesion and self-reliance;
• Create community spaces for healing and social cohesion targeting the general population (based at cell level and meeting twice a month),
• Identify most affected people and design specific healing programs for them and link them with health center officers in charge of mental health;
• Propose mechanisms that allow the management of intergenerational memory transmission related to genocide against Tutsi and divisive past memory in a manner that upraise community resilience while offering opportunity for social cohesion;
• Identify and build capacity for existing community-based initiatives that contribute to social healing and resilience;
• Facilitate network between actors in social healing in the targeted Districts;
• Set up of community-based socialtherapists and conduct their Capacity building (village based).

Eligible applicants
Organizations eligible to respond to this Call for Proposals are national non-governmental and faith-based organizations (including umbrella organizations), which are legally registered by the Rwanda Governance Board in line with the existing legislation.
Applications will only be considered from local registered organizations that meet all of the following criteria:
• Having expertise and commitment in community healing and social cohesion;
• Having at least five years of existence;
• Has offices and qualified staff (at least team of 5 permanent staff / 2 with university degree in psychology / social sciences);
• Having previously worked in the province where you want to intervene (at least in one District of the province);
• Having 2 recommendations from institutions worked with (central and local level).

Submission Procedure
This Request for Proposals has two steps
1. First step, MINUBUMWE will invite organizations to complete an online application briefly describing their proposed project and indicating the targeted Districts.
2. Second step, based on these submissions, MINUBUMWE will then invite selected organizations to submit a full proposal for consideration.
The evaluation will be done by a selection committee composed of MINUBUMWE staff

The Budget
• The planned budget for the successful project will be between 30,000,000-50,000,000 Frw depending on the number of selected Districts payable in tree instellements (40%, 40% and 20%) upon satisfactory quarterly report.

The duration
The initial contract is one year renewable upon satisfactory implementation of the selected projects.
Application Guidelines: in English & French
There is a two-step application process:

Letter of Intent application should include:
• A summary of the organization’s mission/ Brief background and history of the organization and the experience in the area;
• A summary description of the social healing (mental health challenges) in the district where you want to intervene;
• Short description of the organization approach to address the issue of social healing and social cohesion;
• The overview of the project for which you are seeking funding, the overview should convey clear goals and objectives, with intended outcomes. Please tell about your proposed activities and how they will lead to short-term and long-term results. The project description should include sufficient detail to enable to assess feasibility, efficacy and potential impact;
• Program budget, including a short description of significant component of the project;
• A summary of your approach to project evaluation (measurable objectives, or in other words how will you measure your impact);

Appendices can include documenting organizational strengths in the above-mentioned areas.
• your organizational strengths, including, for example, (but not limited to Governmental registration, proof of existence of an organizational bank account via letter of the bank, annual reports, awards and recognition certificates)
If selected, a full proposal will be requested, and format to follow will be provided to selected organizations
The timeline
July 6th 2022, call for proposal
• July 20th 2022 (5:00p.m), first round of application;
• July 30th 2022, decision regarding projects selected to move to a full proposal;
• August 3rd 2022, meeting with selected organization moving to full proposal;
• August 15th 2022(5:00pm), full proposal due;
• August 25th 2022, final decision by MINUBUMWE;
• August 31st 2022, signature of agreement for project beginning September 1st, 2022
Elligible applicants will sent their manifestation of intent by the following e-mail: info@minubumwe@gov.rw , July 20th, 5:00 p.m
Note: All the documents should be in PDF format.
Clarisse MUNEZERO
Permanent Secretary