RISK Award “Children and Youths as agents of change for DRR”

Important Dates:

 Post Date: July 03, 2024

 Deadline Date: October 13, 2024

 Donor Name: Munich Re Foundation

 Grant Size:  $100,000 to $500,000

 Category:Awards, Prizes and Challenges

 Reference URL: https://www.munichre-foundation.org

The 2025 RISK Award is looking for project proposals under the topic “Children and youths as agents of change for Disaster risk reduction (DRR)”.

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Disasters don’t discriminate, yet some people are more at risk! This statement is becoming increasingly true. Analyses of the numbers of victims and people affected prove: countries in the Global South are more affected than countries in the Global North, and vulnerable people, such as marginalised groups, children, young people, women, people with disabilities and more, suffer disproportionally. Data from UNDRR shows that over 1 billion children have had their lives disrupted by disasters since 2000, with more than 80,000 schools damaged or destroyed. According to UNICEF, approximately one billion children worldwide are at extremely high risk due to climate impacts, including climate-related disasters.

To address this injustice, they are dedicating the 2025 RISK Award to the topic of “Children and youths as agents of change for DRR”. It is important to understand that children and young people are not only “victims”, but also have great potential to become risk managers themselves. They can contribute to their own safety, as well as that of their families and communities, in a variety of ways. This can happen through education and raising awareness, participation in DRR planning and decision making, community engagement as well as youth advocacy, amongst other approaches. Everyone is called upon to participate in disaster risk reduction, so if you are involved in disaster risk reduction projects for and with children and young people, this RISK Award is aiming at you. The target region is developing and emerging countries in the Global South.

Funding Information
  • The RISK Award is endowed with 100,000 €. This means that they can contribute to your project with a maximum of 100,000 €. However, they also understand that there are many initiatives that are larger. In this case, please write in your application what the volume of your overall project is and where the other required financial resources will come from.
Timeline
  • The timeline of the proposed project should be between 12 months and 2 years maximum.
Eligibility Criteria
  • It is expected that the successful project will be carried out by a team of people who have complementary skills.
  • It is perfectly legitimate to involve participants from partner institutions, but it is not advisable to form too large consortia for the purpose of submitting a proposal.
  • Research institutions, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and non-profit organisations (NPOs) are especially encouraged to submit.
  • The RISK Award mainly addresses projects in developing and emerging countries in the Global South. They therefore exclude projects that are positioned in high-income countries according to the World Bank classification.
  • The proposed projects must serve a non-profit or charitable purpose. For-profit initiatives are not eligible for selection.
  • The RISK Award is given to institutions or organisations. Unfortunately, individuals cannot be considered.
Criteria
  • The proposal must address the specific annual RISK Award topic
  • The project must be non-profit. Business development is not possible to be supported by the RISK Award.
  • The proposed project must include an implementation part (action), a proposal solely based on research is not sufficient.
  • The risks must be related to climate change and natural hazards.
  • Risks due to social turmoil, war, chemical disasters, and/or political crises are not in the scope of the RISK Award.
  • They appreciate ideas to involve the people at risk (people centred approaches).
  • They appreciate proposals which combine bottom-up approaches with top-down frameworks (community-based approaches).
  • They encourage project teams which are engaged in multi-stakeholder partnerships (different sectors, different sizes, different organisational background, PPPs).

For more information, visit Munich Re Foundation.

SDG Challenge Funding to develop Sustainable Solutions

Important Dates:

 Post Date:  May 20, 2024

 Deadline Date: October 08, 2024

 Donor Name: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)

 Grant Size: More than $1 million

 Category:Grant

 Reference URL: https://www.sfi.ie/funding

The SDG Challenge seeks to support diverse, transdisciplinary teams to develop transformative, sustainable solutions that will contribute to addressing development challenges under the UN SDGs in countries where Irish Aid works.

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a call to action for all countries, in partnership, to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges ones face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice.

Objectives

  • The overarching purpose of the SDG Challenge is to develop transformative, sustainable solutions that will contribute to addressing development challenges under the UN SDGs in Irish Aid’s partner countries.
  • The objectives of the SDG Challenge are:
    • To generate impact through advancement of sustainable solutions in addressing global sustainability issues and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
    • To support the mobilisation of transdisciplinary teams, comprising academic researchers and societal stakeholders to identify key development challenges where sustainable solutions can deliver transformative impact with a focus on southern partner countries;
    • To enable the development of collaborations between researchers in Ireland and researchers in partner countries where Irish Aid works;
    • To support development, deployment and demonstration of sustainable solutions across a range of application areas.
Themes
  • The SDG Challenge 2024 seeks solutions that will contribute to achieving the targets and indicators set out in SDG 2: Zero Hunger: “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”. Applications will be considered that contribute towards one or more of the five SDG 2 outcome targets10,11; improving access to food, ending all forms of malnutrition, enhancing agricultural productivity, sustainable food production and resilient agricultural practices, and maintaining genetic diversity of food production. Recognising the opportunities for innovation within this challenge theme, applicants are encouraged to consider where innovations could be impactful in areas including, but not limited to;
    • Advancing sustainable, resilient, equitable and healthy food systems;
    • Strengthening the use of technology (including digital) and data in food systems transformations, with particular consideration of gender-responsive interventions;
    • Encouraging nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions that advance nutritionally rich foods and dietary diversity, and that recognise the importance of genetic diversity in food production;
    • Fostering climate resilient and nature-positive production systems;
    • Harnessing the role of blue foods for sustainable, resilient, equitable and healthy food systems.
  • In line with the SFI Future Innovator Prize framework, solutions must be underpinned by a credible and robust pathway to impact, built on primary evidence gathered through direct engagement with stakeholders. Solutions must demonstrate context-specific expected impact in one of Irish Aid’s partner countries, but applicants are also encouraged to consider broader opportunities where solutions may have wider impact and may foster learning for regional and sub-regional use.
Challenge Funding and the SFI Future Innovator Prize
  • Challenge funding is a solution-focused approach to direct research activities at specific, often complex, problems. SFI’s approach to challenge funding places strong emphasis on:
    • Inter and Transdisciplinary Teams, reflecting the need to bring together experts and innovators from different disciplines to address complex challenges;
    • Engagement & Validation with stakeholders, beneficiaries and end-users of research to understand the nature of specific problems, to test assumptions and to co-create solutions; and
    • Acceleration through efficient adaptation of approaches based on iterative engagement with beneficiaries and stakeholders.
  • The SDG Challenge will be run within the challenge-funding framework of the SFI Future Innovator Prize Programme, which is structured around the principles set out above.
Funding Information
  • There are three phases to the programme: Concept, Seed and Prize Award.
  • Applications to the programme can request up to €300,000 in total direct costs over a duration of 18- months.
  • Up to €50,000 can be allocated for use during the Concept Phase of the programme (Months 1 – 6) while the remaining request of up to €250,000 can be allocated to the Seed Phase (Months 7 – 18).
  • It is expected that approximately 5 teams will be funded through the programme and enter the Concept Phase. To reflect the collaborative nature of the research to be undertaken and the joint leadership of teams funded under this programme, applications must include funding allocations for researchers based in eligible institutions in both Ireland and in the partner country.
  • At the conclusion of the Concept Phase, all teams that are deemed competitive and whose project demonstrates high impact potential may progress to the Seed Phase as finalists. Following the Seed Phase, one or more teams may be provided with follow-on funding from the prize fund of up to €1M.
Who can apply?
  • The SDG Challenge is intended to support highly motivated, transdisciplinary teams committed to developing transformative, sustainable solutions that will contribute to addressing development challenges under the UN SDGs in Irish Aid’s partner countries. It is expected that teams will encompass a range of technical and non-technical skills to address barriers associated with challenge definition and solution deployment, and that they will represent collaborative and equitable partnerships between researchers in Ireland and the partner country.
  • Teams must include expertise in the STEM research area underpinning the proposed solution, but should also include relevant knowledge or experience in complementary areas such as, for example, international development, economics, behavioural science or others, in order to inform the development, translation (incl. adoption) and impact of solutions. As part of an application, two academic researchers (at least one from a relevant STEM discipline) must be identified as part of the core-team.  Funding should be allocated appropriately to reflect the various contributions to the team.
  • Applications to the prize must identify a core applicant/leadership team comprising a minimum of three or maximum of four members:
    • Team Lead (mandatory) – to provide technical leadership and to have overall responsibility for delivery of research programme objectives. It is expected that the Team Lead has a demonstrable track record relevant to the proposed solution and must be based in a SFI eligible research body.
    • Partner Country Team Co-Lead (mandatory) – to provide technical leadership, bringing research expertise relevant to the application. The Partner Country Team Co-Lead must be based in an eligible HEI or RPO in the partner country
    • Team Co-Lead (optional) – to provide complementary leadership and expertise to that of the Team Lead. The Team Co-Lead must be based in a SFI eligible research body.
    • Societal Impact Champion (optional) - to provide non-technical leadership and support to identify and validate challenges, in addition to advising on solution development. It is envisaged that the Societal Impact Champion will come from a non-academic sector and have appropriate experience in areas relevant to the societal impact and international development focus of the application. They will play a crucial role in identifying barriers and developing strategies to overcome them. They may also play a key advocacy role and assist in maximising the societal impact of the solution. The Societal Impact Champion may come from, for example: public sector/government, non-governmental organisations, charities, patient advocacy, philanthropy or civil society. Where a Societal Impact Champion is not included at the application stage, applicant teams should indicate how they will access relevant end-users, stakeholders, etc. to inform the non-technical aspects of the project.
  • Following successful application, selected core teams will have the opportunity to build a broader challenge team. In addition, funded teams will be assigned a liaison in Irish Aid or one of their overseas missions to further inform the development and deployment of their solution, facilitate access to stakeholder networks and to provide relevant policy context.
Eligibility Criteria
  • For the SDG Challenge, applications must satisfy the following eligibility criteria.
    • The Ireland-based Team Lead/Co-Lead must:
      • Be a member of academic staff of an eligible Research Body (permanent or with a contract that covers the period of the award), or
      • Be a contract researcher with a contract that covers the period of the award (contract may be subject to receipt of the award). and
      • Hold a PhD or equivalent. Please consult the SFI Policy on PhD Equivalence6 for further information.
    • The Partner Country Team Co-Lead must:
      • Be employed at a HEI or RPO in one of the partner countries eligible under this call. The HEI/RPO in the partner country must be a publicly funded or not-for-profit institution. The RPO must have the capacity and infrastructure to support the research, should be research active and be able to demonstrate the standard of academic rigour required for a significant research project.
      • Be a member of academic staff or a contract researcher at an eligible HEI/RPO with a contract that covers the period of the award.
      • Hold a PhD or equivalent.

For more information, visit SFI.

Call for Proposals: Danish Somalia Strategic Framework

Important Dates:

 Post Date: August 15, 2024

 Deadline Date: September 20, 2024

 Donor Name: Danish Embassy to Somalia

 Grant Size: $$500,000 to $1 million

 Category:Events

 Reference URL: https://um.dk/danida/samarbejspartnere

The Danish Embassy to Somalia is inviting NGOs who are operating in Somalia to submit project proposals in support of building resilience, promoting self-reliance and strengthening livelihoods in Somalia.

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Objectives
  • The development objective of the call is strengthened resilience of vulnerable Somalis towards climate-related and man-made shocks, thereby preventing displacement and addressing its effects.
  • The Call for Proposals is to solicit projects to enhance resilience of displaced populations and prevent displacement in Somalia.
  • The CfP is divided in two phases, where the first phase will solicit expressions of interest and phase two will provide full proposals for projects by civil society organisations. This information note explains the whole process from initial expressions of interest to the full proposals.
Windows
  • The call has two separate, but interrelated windows within the same overall development objective as seen above and with the following expected outcomes:
    • Window 1 Preventing Displacement: Enhanced adaptive capacity of rural communities and strengthened resilience towards climatic shocks of marginalized communities
    • Window 2 Addressing Displacement: Improved self-reliance, including through expanded economic opportunities in urban and peri-urban populations, including internally displaced people (IDPs) in order to increase climate resilience and reduce vulnerability.
  • For both windows, particular attention should be paid to economic inclusion of women, youth, marginalized groups, and strengthened community involvement in solutions to strengthen resilience.
Priorities 
  • The strategic reference for this Call for Proposals (CfP) is the Strategic Framework 2024-2028, guiding all Danish engagements in Somalia. A specific focus for this CfP is to contribute to the strategic objective of strengthening resilience and preventing displacement, through focused HDP nexus approaches, emphasizing complementarity between humanitarian assistance and long-term development efforts.
  • In line with Danish strategic interests, Denmark will focus specifically on enhancing resilience for the most vulnerable Somalis. Denmark will promote an approach to self-reliance focused on livelihoods, with attention to individual, household, community and national-level resilience to shocks, both climatic and security related. This CfP focuses particularly on women and youth as agents of change, strengthening livelihoods and promoting self-reliance of the most vulnerable parts of the population.
  • Denmark has made addressing climate change a top political priority. As part of Denmark’s ambitions to be a global green frontrunner, Danish development cooperation puts climate change at the front and centre of all engagements. This CfP will contribute to this commitment by defining outcomes that address climate change adaptation. Project proposals will be required to demonstrate that the project contributes to this ambition by being able to tag at least 50% of the total funding to ‘adaptation to climate change’ for window 1 and at least 25% ‘adaptation to climate change’ for window 2.
Funding Information
  • The amount available for this call for proposals is a total of 130 million DKK, 80 million DKK under window 1 and 50 million DKK under window 2.
  • The project is expected to be implemented during a 4-year period – November 2024 until November 2028.
Geographic Considerations and Target Groups 
  • Denmark’s strategic framework for engagement includes a focus on Somaliland. The CfP reflects the strategic significance of Somaliland in the Danish portfolio, meaning that the successful proposal in this CfP should include engagements in Somaliland.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Relevant documentation presented
  • Minimum 10 full-time programme staff in total in more than one location in Somalia Somaliland.
  • Minimum 20 million USD.
  • Contract management: at least 2 contracts of 2,5 million USD and above each as lead in Somalia.
  • Implemented at least 3 contracts of at least 1 million USD in total in Somalia.
  • Authorized signatures from all consortium members, including at least one Somali organisation, presented.
  • Documentation presented in case of existing assessment.
  • If no assessment exists, the applicant must state willingness to undergo a capacity assessment by RDE Somalia.
  • Sub-granting guidelines or other relevant documentation presented.
  • Overall budget estimate and percentages of climate change adaptation.  Documentation describing activities and outcomes falling under ‘climate change adaptation.

For more information, visit Danish Embassy to Somalia.

Applications open for UniKorea Grant Program

Important Dates:

 Post Date: August 16, 2024

 Deadline Date: August 23, 2024

 Donor NameUniKorea Foundation

 Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000

 Category: Grant

 Reference URL: https://e-tongilnanum.com/Tongilnanum_ext/ViewProject?In_ProjectMasterId=67

The UniKorea Foundation announces an open competition for organizations interested in projects that create a global network for promoting reunification and peace on the Korean Peninsula.

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Project Categories
  • Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation
  • Humanitarian & Sustainable Development Projects for North Korea
  • HRD Training & Capacity Building Projects for North Koreans
  • HRD Training & Capacity Building Projects for global students and professionals
  • Original Research (You should submit ‘Research Proposal’ only.)
  • Creative Contents
  • Note: Even if your project fits into more than one category, you must choose only one.
Funding Information
  • 10,000 USD – 100,000 USD per proposal
  • The budget ceiling can be over 100,000 USD for category (1)~(3)
Project Period 
  • October 15, 2024 ~ May 30, 2025
  • All grantees can run projects for 7.5 months at the longest.
Eligible Countries
  • Applicants in All Countries can apply.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Organizations, universities, research institutes, think tanks, agencies, NGOs, etc. outside of South Korea
  • Universities, organizations, research institutes, think tanks, institutions, NGOs, etc. in Korea that have an official partnership (such as an MOU) with a leading overseas university, institute, or organization.

For more information, visit UniKorea Foundation.

CFPs: Investigating Service Delivery in Conflict-Affected Settings (Somalia)

Important Dates:

 Post Date: July 29, 2024

 Deadline Date: August 19, 2024

 Donor Name: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (ASHPSR)

Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000

 Category: Grant

 Reference URL: https://ahpsr.who.int/

The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (ASHPSR) is inviting proposals for health policy and systems research to investigate service delivery in the context of chronic conflict in Somalia.

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Teams are invited to submit proposals under one of the two themes, either: delivering services across jurisdictions or service delivery models and packages. The Principal Investigator and their institution must be based in Somalia, with collaboration (inside or outside the country) encouraged.

The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at WHO Headquarters, in collaboration with the WHO Health Emergencies Programme and with support from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is developing a new programme of health policy and systems research to gain better insights into how to deliver health services in conflict-affected settings.

Objectives
  • The objective of research supported under this programme of work is to:
    • Inform and seek to improve the delivery of health services in the context of the current conflict in Somalia;
    • Identify lessons around service delivery in conflict settings that may be applicable to other similar contexts;
    • Sensitize policy actors in Somalia and the region of the potential of health systems research to be useful in conflict settings.
  • As a secondary objective, this research should:
    • Contribute to the strengthening of capacities of health policy and systems researchers based in Somali institutions;
    • Catalyse interest in health policy and systems research in conflict settings among the broader health policy and systems research community at regional and global levels.
Themes
  • To fill this gap and catalyse evidence-informed decision-making to address health system challenges in Somalia, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research in collaboration with the WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) is issuing a call for innovative research focused on two broad research themes:
    • Delivering services across jurisdictions Research under this theme documents and investigates modalities to deliver services across jurisdictions overseen by different entities (different in terms of level (federal and national) and geographical location, and including non-state actor groups where feasible). The aim is to develop practical evidence on how to increase access to services for populations across different areas, and how to promote development and coordination in the areas of health systems and service delivery.
    • Service delivery models to improve delivery of health services in chronic conflict settings This theme will support research that can provide practical evidence on how to increase coverage of health services for conflict-affected populations (i.e., internally displaced persons, refugees and host populations) and enhance the resilience of communities and local health services. Knowledge generated through research on this theme should strengthen existing models of service delivery and also inform the development of new models of service delivery.
Funding Information
  • A maximum of two proposals will be supported for funding in Somalia (one per research theme). The maximum funding for a single proposal will be US$ 75,000 for the period from October 2024–April 2026.
Expected Outputs and Outcomes 
  • Teams supported under this programme of work are expected to generate high quality health policy and systems research addressing one of the two proposed themes mentioned above. While teams are free to develop peer reviewed publications, given the focus of this work programme to inform policy and practice, teams will be required to produce products aimed at decision-makers including policy and technical briefs and presentations in formats suitable for policy- and decision-makers. Teams will also be encouraged to creatively use digital formats for dissemination, an example of this would be the development of short videos highlighting important findings.
  • Overall project success will be judged in terms of the extent to which the generated knowledge is perceived by programme implementers, policymakers and development partners to be useful to inform practice and policy within Somalia. The research team is expected to work closely with the Alliance, WHE and the WHO at the country level to put in place a process that engages these stakeholders in the co-creation of this knowledge from inception to project completion and potential policy uptake.
Eligibility Criteria
  • To be eligible for this call:
    • The principal investigator must be based in a research/academic institution in Somalia.
    • Team members, as reflected in the expression of interest as well as the CV of the PI and co-PIs, should reflect experience in: a) service delivery or governance-related issues as relevant to the chosen theme, b) working in conflict-affected settings, c) applying the methodologies needed to carry out the proposed research.
    • The team must have gender balance, and 50% of the core research team must comprise female researchers.
  • Collaboration across institutions is encouraged particularly with institutions in other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Teams may choose to collaborate with institutions in high-income countries on the understanding that the Alliance will develop a contract with only one institution and that institution must be based in Somalia.
Selection Criteria
  • Eligible proposals will be judged by at least two external reviewers based on selection criteria like:
    • A clearly articulated policy and practice relevant research question and a methodology appropriate to answer that question;
    • The potential of the research question to be feasibly answered within the programme timeframe;
    • Experience of the team in conducting health policy and systems research relevant to the selected theme;
    • Experience of the research team in engaging policy-makers in research processes;
    • A clearly articulated overview of the process through which the team plans to implement this work programme from inception to project completion; and
    • Value for money.

For more information, visit ASHPSR.

Call for Applications: Matching Grant Fund

Important Dates:

 Post Date: July 09, 2024

 Deadline Date: August 18, 2024

Donor NameAgri-Business Facility for Africa

 Grant Size: $100,000 to $500,000

 CategoryGrant

Reference URL:https://www.agribusiness-facility.org/funding.html

Are you working in the cashew, cocoa, maize, or livestock (cattle, sheep, goats) sectors in a member state of the Organisation of African, Caribbean, and Pacific states? Are you from the private sector, with a high interest in resilience, competitiveness, or direct supply linkages with off-takers for sustainability? Do you have an innovative idea that makes the above-mentioned value chains less fragmented, more inclusive, particularly for women and youth, sustainable, and profitable? This also includes innovations for by-products of the sectors. Then this is a unique opportunity for you to realize your goal!

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The overall objective of the Matching Grant Fund is to leverage contributions from partners for the implementation of specific interventions towards the development of the cashew, cocoa, maize, and livestock (cattle, sheep, and goats) value chains and build ownership to drive sustainable growth in the respective sectors, strengthen private sector development, and improve the productivity and profitability of stakeholders in all 79 OACPS member states for cashew, cocoa, maize, cattle, sheep, and goats value chains.

Funding Information
  • The financial contribution from EU INTPA, OACPS and BMZ (further referred to as contribution through GIZ / GIZ-part) for each Matching Grant Fund project will be up to a maximum of 100,000 € for all VC’s. For exceptional projects, where the implementation goes beyond one country, the amount requested via GIZ can be up to max of 200,000 EUR. For all Matching Grant Projects, the contribution through GIZ would be a maximum of 40% (for cashew) and 50% (for other value chains such as cocoa, maize, livestock- cattle, goat, sheep) of the total budget. The minimum amount requested via GIZ must be 40,000 EUR.
  • Each Matching Grant Fund project can have a duration up to 18 months.
Activities
  • Strengthening linkages between value chain actors. Capacity building of value chain actors (including primary producers) through:
    • Technical trainings (such as Good Agricultural Practice (GAP), Adaptation to and/or Mitigation of Climate Change (CC), Conservative Agriculture (CA), Agroforestry and Improved Planting Material)
    • Entrepreneurial trainings (Farmers Business School (FBS), also possible with a focus on climate change (FBSClimate), Cooperative Business School (CBS), Processor Business School (PBS), Gender Makes Business Sense Plus (GmBSplus), mitigation of climate change
    • Other innovative and inclusive approaches
    • Approaches strategies leading to CO2 and equivalents reduction and removal
Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
  • Output level KPIs (individual MGF project level)
    • Additional resources are mobilized by the lead applicant and consortium partners 50% of the activities promoted should be led by women
    • 50% of activities should be led by youth
  • Outcome Level KPIs for the MGF projects as a whole
    • 75% of the promoted business entities in agriculture, processing, or service provision apply resilient practices
    • 60% of supported projects that are labelled as “innovative” successfully reduce CO2 and/or CO2 equivalents or store CO2 and/or CO2 equivalents on the ground in line with internationally recognized standards
Eligibility Criteria
  • Multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSP), that consist of a lead applicant (private entity) and its consortium partners, can apply for the MGF. The general idea of MGF is to create a public good that is supporting the existing network the applicant operates in. This can be achieved through knowledge and innovative technologies of production based on open access rules or through capacity strengthening of actors on proven agribusiness approaches along the value chain.
  • Please note:
    • All OACPS member states are eligible to apply for the Matching Grant Fund for the value chains: cashew, cocoa, maize and livestock (cattle, sheep and goat). However, in the interest of regional balance, during this call, priority will be given to projects originating from countries with no or few projects from the previous calls.
    • Proposals on the cocoa VC from Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Cameroon are not eligible for this call since these countries are already being supported through the EU Sustainable Cocoa Initiative.
  • Eligible lead applicants (as part of a consortium): 
    • These are legally registered private sector entities such as
      • Processing companies
      • Agricultural producer organisations
      • Off-takers of the main final product of the value chain and/or its by-products
    • Please note that lead applicants must come from the private sector, whether they are agricultural producers’ organisations, processors, or off-takers. Evidence of legal form and registration in accordance with the legal provisions that apply in the country in which the private entity is based must be provided.
  • Consortium partners (that are not lead applicants):
    • Consortium partners are legally registered entities entering a binding agreement to implement the proposed project. Consortium partners cannot be service providers for the proposed project or private persons.
    • Examples for the private sector companies and public sector institutions that can be consortium partners can be found below:
      • Processing company
      • Agricultural producer organisations
      • Off-takers (e.g. traders) of the main product of the value chain and/or its by-products
      • Trading/buying companies.
      • Business development services
      • Agricultural technical and vocational education and training institutions (ATVET)
      • National extension organisations (public and private)
      • Civil society actors
      • Private Sector Foundation
    • In terms of the requirements for a consortium, all partners must be legally recognized and empowered to enter into binding agreements. It is fundamental that each consortium consists of at least one national/local partner (e.g., an MSME, Producer Organisation or similar).
    • Partners who already received grant from either the 1st or 2nd call of the GIZ MGF are not eligible for this call neither as lead applicant, nor as consortium partner.

For more information, visit Agri-Business Facility for Africa.

CHILD Implementation Grants Programme for Children exposed to Drugs

Important Dates:

 Post Date: July 10, 2024

 Deadline Date: August 16, 2024

Donor Name:United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 Grant Size$10,000 to $100,000

Category:Grant

Reference URL:https://www.unodc.org

The CHILD Implementation Grants Programme seeks to provide funding support to not-for-profit organisations from low- and middle-income countries working in the area of drug use prevention and treatment, care and rehabilitation, having staff trained on the CHILD curriculum and implementing activities for children and young adolescents actively using or at risk of using drugs.

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Objectives
  • This Call for Proposals takes into consideration the importance of harnessing all available resources towards the implementation of activities aimed at meeting the objectives of this Grants programme.
  • The objective of this Grants programme is to strengthen the capacity of civil society to prevent drug use globally using evidence-based drug prevention, treatment, care and rehabilitation interventions with a focus on children and young adolescents at risk of using drugs.
Thematic Focus and Priority Issues 
  • This Call for Proposals seeks to provide funding support to not-for-profit organisations working in the area of drug use prevention and treatment, care and rehabilitation, with staff trained on the CHILD Curriculum and whose projects are aimed at implementing evidence-based drug use prevention, treatment, care and rehabilitation programs for children and young adolescents actively using or at risk of using drugs in South American, Asian, and African Countries where the CHILD Curriculum training has been provided.
  • Grant funding under this Call for Proposals shall be provided to projects that:
    • Are focused on evidence-based prevention and treatment of substance use among children. This will be assessed on the basis of how well the project activities are in line with the types of interventions and policies found to be effective in preventing substance use based on the available scientific evidence, as outlined in the UNODC- WHO International Standards on Drug Use Prevention and the UNODC- WHO International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders;
    • Are focused on children and young adolescents 4-12 years old and implemented in a developmentally appropriate way, allowing for tailoring language, main messages and interventions to the age and stage of the child;
    • Demonstrate the use and dissemination of the CHILD curriculum (link) aimed to help reduce drug use among children;
    • Provide a set of measures and plans to collect process and outcome data to show the extent to which the CHILD curriculum is used to treat children for substance use issues. Ideally, the CARRE measure will be included in the set of measures used for outcome evaluation of the CHILD intervention.
Funding Information
  • Proposals with budgets from USD 10,000 up to USD 50,000. Please note that value for money will be assessed as a part of the rating criteria and proposed budgets should be expressed in USD.
  • As a general rule in UNOV/UNODC, grant awards should not exceed the organization’s annual income from the previous fiscal year.
Duration
  • All activities financed by this Grants programme must be implemented within the period in the agreement (from 9 to up to 12 months). Depending on the proposed period in the agreement, the implementation of the activities must be completed latest by 9 January 2026.
Location 
  • Applicants from low- and middle-income countries in South America, Asia, or Africa that seek to implement projects for beneficiaries of the same country are eligible for grant funding. Countries are classified as low-, lower-middle- or upper-middle- income economies as according to the World Bank country classifications.
Eligibility Criteria
  • The applicant must be a non-profit making organization (CSOs including NGOs, CBOs) from low- or middle-income country in South America, Asia, or Africa, registered for not less than two (2) years from the date of application under the relevant Laws of the country where it is registered;
  • The applicant must have staff within their organization that have completed all six courses of the CHILD curriculum and at least one course of the CHILD Train the Trainer;
  • The applicant is directly responsible for the preparation and management of the project, i.e. not acting as an intermediary;
  • The applicant has prior experience of at least two years implementing activities in the area of drug use prevention for children at risk of using drugs, treatment, care and rehabilitation for children with drug use disorders, health education, and/or other related field of work;
  • The applicant’s annual income from the previous fiscal year is higher than the requested grant amount.;
  • The applicant has a bank account capable of receiving international deposit.

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Call for Proposals: Strengthening Resilience in Regional Feminist Women’s Rights Movements

Important Dates:

 Post Date: July 10, 2024

 Deadline Date: July 26, 2024

 Donor Name: UN Women

 Grant Size: $100,000 to $500,000

 Category: Grant

Reference URL:  https://africa.unwomen.org/

UN Women has announced a call for proposals for women’s rights organizations, networks or coalitions operating at regional/multi-country/sub-region operations in East and Southern Africa for the Programme ”Advocacy Coalition Building and Transformative Feminist Action to End Violence Against Women’‘ to facilitate annual reviews on accountability, monitoring and reporting of progress on the GBV Action Coalition and related AC Commitments in Africa for strengthening collective and evidence-based advocacy

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The Advocacy, Coalition Building and Transformative Feminist Action to End Violence Against Women (ACT) programme, a partnership between the European Commission and UN Women as co-leaders of the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Gender Based Violence (AC GBV), is working to accelerate progress to end VAWG. Operating at global and regional levels, with an initial focus in Africa and Latin America, it is supporting and investing in strong and empowered feminist women’s rights organizations at regional levels and in building coalitions with multiple stakeholders and actors from all sectors to strengthen regional advocacy to end VAWG.

Funding Information
  • The maximum budget for this Call is $130,000.
Timeframe
  • Detailed timeline spanning 22 months, (9 September 2024 to 7 July 2026) with activities aligned to a budget and the requirements as per the TOR.
Services Required/Results 
  • The ACT Programme aims to contribute to:
    • Outcome 1: Strengthened coalition building, networking, leadership, and resilience of global and regional feminist women’s rights movements, where. 
      • Output 1.1: Strategic planning, organizational, technical, and financial capacities of feminist women’s rights coalitions at the global and regional levels are strengthened.
      • Output 1.2: Women’s rights organizations and/or coalitions have strengthened capacities to collect and use knowledge, research, and data including practice- based learning; and
      • Output 1.3: Women’s rights organizations and coalitions have strengthened access to resources and spaces for feminist networking, knowledge sharing, strategizing, collaboration, and coalition building to ending violence against women.
    • Outcome 2: Increased and enhanced advocacy, campaigning, and policymaking to end violence against women and girls (EVAW) through multi-stakeholder partnerships and coalitions, where:
      • Output 2.1: Impact oriented EVAW initiatives and advocacy actions at regional and global level led by women’s rights movements and multistakeholder coalitions are implemented.
      • Output 2.2: Enhanced evidence-base for EVAW advocacy, campaigning monitoring and policy making, campaigning.
      • Output 2.3: Representation and participation of women’s rights organizations and coalitions (including intersectional groups) in formal global and/or regional fora is enhanced and supported.
  • In support of these results, specifically Output 2.1: Impact oriented EVAW initiatives and advocacy actions at regional and global level led by women’s rights movements and multistakeholder coalitions are implemented.’ UN Women seeks to engage an AC GBV member(s) in East and Southern Africa to facilitate actions to enhance accountability and promote awareness of progress on the Action Coalition on GBV and related Action Coalition Commitments in Africa, including through the use of annual monitoring and reporting mechanisms for strengthening collective and evidence-based advocacy in line with the objectives above. This will help AC GBV members across the region to review member states’ accountability on the progress against their commitments under the GBV Action Coalition in Africa. The partnership will promote monitoring and reporting of progress on the AC GBV in strengthening collective and evidence -based advocacy.
  • Through the partnership, UN Women will collaborate with an AC GBV member operating in East and Southern Africa to contribute to Output 2.1 as explained below.
    • Outcome 2:
      • Increased and enhanced advocacy, campaigning, and policymaking to end violence against women and girls (EVAW) through multi-stakeholder partnerships and coalitions.
        • Coordinate impact-oriented EVAWG initiatives and advocacy actions at the regional level led by women’s rights movements and multistakeholder coalitions in the region, including public-private collaborations.
          • Engage commitment-makers under AC GBV across East and Southern Africa region (ESAR) and strengthen organizational and collective capacity in policymaking, campaigning and advocacy for improved state accountability on EVAWG.
          • Identify existing platforms for exchange and facilitate spaces (virtual and physical) for networking among AC GBV commitment makers in ESAR.
          • Support AC GBV commitment-makers to contribute into the Generation Equality annual accountability report and share progress with members regionally.
Eligible Countries
  • Angola, Burundi, Botswana, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia.
Competencies
  • Technical/functional competencies required by submitting organization:
    • The organization, network, coalition or consortium must have the following functional/technical competencies:
    • Prior experience in coalition-building or collective advocacy for ending violence against women and girls;
    • Experience working with diverse partners, including marginalized groups and multiple stakeholders; and existing relationships with feminist organizations, allies, networks, regional or sub-regional bodies, and other relevant stakeholders;
    • A strong understanding of potential opportunities, challenges and strategies on ending violence against women and girls (EVAWG) in East and Southern Africa and an ability to engage in diverse political environments;
    • An in-depth understanding of various EVAWG commitments and advocacy processes and platforms for advancing gender equality in the region;
    • A robust monitoring and evaluation system, participatory monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to measure the effectiveness of gender equality interventions and ability to adapt approaches as needed.
  • Organizational: CSO Criteria 
    • The eligible organization should also meet the legal, programmatic, and technical criteria defined below:
      • Be a women’s rights organization, network, or coalition organization, with organizations led by women or young women in all their diversity considered as an asset.
      • Be a commitment-maker or leader in the Action Coalition on GBV operating in East and Southern Africa (organizations with programmatic focus on only one country must demonstrate they have experience and networks to coordinate actions at a sub-regional level)
      • Duly registered under the laws of the country of operation with the East and Southern African region and legally authorised to operate.
      • Gender equality must be a demonstrated priority area of work for the organization.
      • Operating for at least five years with demonstrated programmatic experience related to institutional strengthening of women’s rights organizations and networks, advocacy, or advancing efforts to ending violence against women and girls and promote gender equality more broadly. Organizations operating for three years can be accepted with evidence of strong experience in the areas above.
  • Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services:
    • Experience working with United Nations will be an added advantage
    • Demonstrated experience working on intersectional approaches will be an added advantage

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CFPs: Selection of Grant Beneficiary for A2D Facility Pilot Demonstration Projects in Developing Countries

CFPs: Selection of Grant Beneficiary for A2D Facility Pilot Demonstration Projects in Developing Countries

important Dates:

 Post Date: July 24, 2024

 Deadline Date: August 19, 2024

 Donor NameUnited Nations Development Organization

 Grant Size: Not Available

 Category: Grant

Reference URL: https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/239752

The United Nations Development Organization (UNIDO) hereby invites you to submit a written grant proposal for implementation of Accelerate-to-Demonstrate (A2D) Facility later-stage pilot demonstration projects of commercialization of innovative clean energy technologies with an initial focus on critical minerals, clean hydrogen, smart energy and industrial decarbonisation, in developing countries.

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The programme focuses on supporting the development of “lighthouse” pilot demonstration projects, which are projects with catalytic potential in leading to transformational impacts, particularly in meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 13 (climate action), 1 (no poverty) and 9 (industry, innovation and infrastructure), and are in supportive enabling environments that foster scalability.

The A2D Facility is a global programme (developing country-focused) and funding for “lighthouse” pilot demonstration projects is expected to be in the USD 3-5 million range per project proposal.

A2D Facility Activities
  • The programme supports only the following types of activities, and these activities are expected to be built into project proposals and be appropriately budgeted for.
    • Pilot demonstration activities: 
      • Supporting activities to implement and operate pilot demonstration activities, such as equipment purchases, construction, testing and operation. The pilot demonstrations must take place in a developing country.
      • Training and capacity building activities directly linked with implementing and operating the supported pilot demonstration project.
      • Knowledge and dissemination activities to monitor the performance of the pilot demonstration project, to collect results against the A2D Facility’s indicators, to host study tours and capacity building activities at the pilot demonstration project, and to share lessons learned in national and international fora.
  • The programme cannot support the following types of activities. No component or individual activities of a project proposal should include any of the following activities. Out-of-scope components or individual activities are identified will not be considered and applicants will be required to remove them from the project proposal.
    • Planning activities: pre-feasibility studies, feasibility studies (environmental, financial, social, regulatory, legal, front-end engineering design or equivalent) or other activities related to the planning phase of a pilot demonstration project.
    • Policy, regulatory and legislative support: supporting the design and implementation of policy roadmaps (including innovation policy roadmaps), standards or certifications for technologies or processes, regulations and laws, and capacity building activities that are primarily targeted at policy-makers, government officials or equivalent.
    • Research and development: research, analysis and other related knowledge products. However, performance data collection and activities related to monitoring and reporting against the A2D Facility indicators are in-scope, as per the above list of in-scope activities.
    • Thematic focus: activities that are not focused on at least one of the A2D Facility’s thematic areas-of-focus: critical minerals (midstream or downstream), clean hydrogen (green or blue hydrogen), smart energy (digitalization) or industrial decarbonization (hard-to-abate sectors).
    • Technology and sector application: technologies linked to unabated fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas). For example, an innovative technology to improve the efficiency of a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) production process through the integration of smart energy technologies would be out-of-scope, but testing an innovative Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) technology on a cement plant would be in-scope. The innovative solution should target the industrial, transport, power or buildings sectors.
    • Negative environment or social impacts: activities that are likely to infringe on the protection of critical habitats or physical cultural resources that use banned pesticides and/or chemicals, or cause involuntary resettlement, or other equivalent negative impacts that do not safeguard the environment and society.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Applicants shall submit all the following documents to be qualified for grant application:
    • The applicant must be registered as a legal entity authorized to enter into contracts/agreements with UNIDO. As a proof, the applicant must provide a certified copy of their Certificate of Incorporation or other documents setting forth the legal basis of the entity/company.
    • The Applicant shall demonstrate at least three (3) years of experience in the field of services specified in the CfP. The applicant shall also indicate if the company has already provided services to the United Nations system of organizations.
    • In case a consortium is formed it must follow the requirements indicated in Section IV, Award and related procedures.
    • The applicant must submitted filled in Institutional/Micro assessment Form.
    • The applicant must submit audited financial reports and statements for the last three years, the filled in and signed UNIDO Financial Statement and Certification Form (Profit Margin Ratio: profit/turnover should be positive) an independent rating report should be provided.
    • The applicant must submit filled in and signed UNIDO Bank Information Form.
    • The applicant must abide by the UNIDO Policy on Exclusion from Funding and UNIDO Policy on the Protection of Personal Data, by completing and signing the UNIDO Statement of Confirmation form.
    • The applicant must accept the UNIDO model grant agreement and general conditions of agreement. In case of potential alteration, a request must be indicated and included in the grant proposal, otherwise it will not be considered at the later stage. Any comments/alterations with regard to the model agreement, the General Conditions and related other annexes must be clearly indicated in the proposal. Feasibility/acceptability of such comments/alterations will be considered during the evaluation.
    • Proposed project activities must be within the list of in-scope activities outlined above and must ensure that no components or individual activities within the project include activities that are in the above list of out-of-scope activities.
    • Projects must be implemented in a developing country (as defined by a country that is eligible to receive Official Development Assistance (ODA) to be eligible for support.
    • Overseas innovative solutions and local innovative solutions are both eligible for support, but the innovative solution must be at the later-stage pilot demonstration phase of the innovation cycle in the developing country where the pilot demonstration project is being implemented.
    • All proposals must formally partner with at least one local organization in the developing country where the pilot demonstration project is being implemented as part of the proposal team.

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