📋 Tender Overview
NGOs in the DRC operate in a complex and volatile context. To reduce the challenges of humanitarian access, they require information services, security coordination, and administrative support for better risk management. INSO, the NGO Forum (FONGI), and the National Council of Humanitarian and Development Organizations (CONAFOHD) will provide analysis, advisory, and advocacy services to improve project implementation, particularly those supported by Switzerland.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Democratic Republic Congo
Emergency Relief and Protection
nothemedefined
Humanitarian efficiency
Protection, access & security
01.07.2025 - 30.06.2028
CHF 1’690’000
The project in brief
Background Institutional context: Swiss Cooperation's partnerships with INSO and FONGI have existed for over eight years on the basis of individual proposals. This first phase of a new initiative brings together these individual partnerships under a single credit proposal with the aim of facilitating humanitarian access. Security context: Access to information and more efficient administrative services for NGOs remains a challenge for humanitarian operations. Humanitarian actors face access problems (security, administrative, and logistical) and insufficient coordination between actors, which reduces the impact of humanitarian aid. With the capture of the cities of Goma and Bukavu, the operational environment for NGOs has inevitably deteriorated, due to the deteriorating security situation and the disconnection with the capital, Kinshasa. Security incidents continue to be recorded in eastern DRC, affecting members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and UN agencies. These incidents are mainly economic in nature (kidnappings, robberies, carjackings, acts of intimidation, etc.). A large number of incidents targeting displacement sites by armed militias have been recorded in the Ituri region. In North and South Kivu, conflicts are increasing with the rise of the ADF and the M23.
Objectives National and international NGOs are more effective in their humanitarian actions and advocacy thanks to access to security-related information and enhanced coordination.
Target groups The direct target groups of the project are: 142 international NGOs members of INSO and FONGI, including 4 United Nations agencies (UNOCHA, UNDSS, UNHAS and UNICEF) and 7 donors (including Switzerland); 500 national NGOs members of CONAFOHD; Local, provincial and national authorities. The indirect target groups of the project are: Populations affected by crises and beneficiaries of NGO actions.
Medium-term outcomes Credible and reliable security information, analysis and advice are provided to NGOs to strengthen their security and crisis management capacities (INSO); Support for NGOs for their participation in coordination mechanisms with various stakeholders, including the government, as well as interactions with the "de facto" authorities, in compliance with humanitarian principles, is
