National Electoral Commission
Guddida Doorashooyinka
Ee Qaranka
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Voter Education awareness’s campaign on Voter Registration in Somaliland
Date of issue:
14th December, 2015
Closing date:
18th December, 2015
Closing time:
12.00 AM
1. BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE
The National Electoral Commission (NEC) is the body mandated to oversee and conduct the
upcoming elections in Somaliland, which will be the second time that the Somaliland citizens
will elect their leaders through a ballot process. Additionally, the new biometric voter
registration system will be introduced during these elections. NEC has the responsibility of
informing and educating all eligible voters on registration and other electoral processes leading
up to the elections.
These efforts require a strategic and proactive approach to disseminating information on how the
overall system works, why the new technology has been adopted, and methods to ensure the
system’s integrity. Furthermore, all eligible voters need to be encouraged to register and vote,
necessitating the adoption of different types of outreach methods, based on how various
segments of voters commonly access information.
Grant activities arising from this proposal’s will aim to exert special efforts towards educating
communities and providing accurate, timely, and reliable information in regards to voter
registration.
National Electoral Commission
Guddida Doorashooyinka
Ee Qaranka
2. DETAILED PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
1. Somaliland National Electoral Voter education will focus on the following ears:
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Basic voter registration information: Providing basic facts on registration
requirements, the registration process, necessary identification to establish
eligibility, the date, time, and place of registration in the voters’ districts, and the
consequences of attempted multiple registration;
3. SCOPE OF WORK
The Scope of work includes
1. The voter education awareness proposal must demonstrate the organizations
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A strategy to effectively and efficiently reach as many communities and
individuals as possible in one regions of Somaliland.
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Strong presence in one organization of six regions
2. Methodology to directly target the following groups: youth, women; in order to improve
voter registration among these groups.
3. A plan to increase the capacity of NEC to improve local information campaigns and
communications around the election and voter education.
4.
In coordination with other civil society organizations, and under the guidance of NEC
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Carry out voter education campaign in on regions in order to reach a maximum
number of communities and individuals.
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Under the guidance of NEC, work in coordination with other Civil Society
organizations to roll out a comprehensive and synchronized information campaign
on the voter registration process in specific regions of Somaliland.
5. All voter education work will be done in close coordination with National Election
Commission, and specifically under the Voter Education department for NEC
National Electoral Commission
Guddida Doorashooyinka
Ee Qaranka
4. EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
a) Detailed work plan for the proposed activity(s), highlighting the targeted region
b) Weekly progress report and narrated report through NEC email
c) When project finish send Final report to NEC
5.
ILLUSTRATIVE ACTIVITIES
a) Grass root community awareness
b) Town hall Meetings” with community leaders, elders, business people, etc… in order
to build local understanding of the voter registration process
c) Use vehicle based announcement voter education awareness outreach campaign in
Somaliland.
d) Coordinating with local youth and women’s groups in order to address specific
concerns and increase voter registration among youth and women
6.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Somaliland local NGOs or civil society organization should have experience in conducting with
communication, education, or awareness raising campaigns.
The applicant must be able to work in regions based of Somaliland, demonstrate the ability and
capacity to carry out all the above mentioned tasks.
In addition preference for selection will be given to those organizations that have experience
with election processes and voter education campaigns.
Preference will also be given for organizations that focus on a specific region, challenge, or
special groups (i.e. women, youth, pastoralist communities, etc…) in their project design.
National Electoral Commission
Guddida Doorashooyinka
Ee Qaranka
All attachments mentioned below are mandatory. Applications without all requirements will
not be considered.
One-page Expression of Interest, including the following:
 Copy of certificate of registration of organization or group (if applicable)
 Brief description of past experience in implementing awareness rising and communication
campaigns, and if applicable previous experience working on Somaliland Elections.
 List of key personnel and their CVs
6. Scoring criteria
The proposal will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria
No.
Criteria
Points
1
Relevance and appropriateness of the proposed 40%
voter education activities
2
Minimum 3 years’ experience in implementing 20%
similar assignments with Government, UN and
INGOs in Somaliland
3
Every organization must be request only one 15%
region and individual
4
Cost effectiveness of the proposed budget
25%
National Electoral Commission
Guddida Doorashooyinka
Ee Qaranka
Instructions to the Applicant
1. All interested parties who wish to bid must submit to NEC the Expression of Interest
described above via email (see email address below).
a) Ve_dept@necsomaliland.com
2. The applications must be submitted between December 14 up to 18, 2015, though NEC will
continue to accept applications through, on December 19, 2015. Late or unresponsive
applications will not be considered.