MERCY CORPS-
CALL FOR PROPOSAL

MERCY CORPS
CALL FOR PROPOSAL
M&E CAPACITY BUILDING AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING
NAME OF PROJECT: ECPN
LOCATION: MERCY CORPS ABUJA NIGERIA
ACCOUNT CODE: 6218, LIN CODE: 32680L000
TENDER ?: ABV PR#-2889
BID-022 FY 2018
DATE: 2 FEBRUARY, 2018
FUND CODE: 32680

1.BACKGROUND
Decades of violent conflict between farmers and pastoralists in Nigeria’s Middle Belt have devastated local communities and drastically reduced security and economic activity in the region. Conflict is rooted in competition over natural resources and land, which has been increasing due to climate change, population growth, and the southward migration of pastoralists due to extremist activity in the North. Farmer and pastoralist communities that traditionally interacted over shared resources are polarized, and clashes between communities have taken on religious and ethnic overtones that deepen divides. The resulting violence and instability occurs in an environment where widespread poverty, poor governance and corruption is already pervasive.