2015 OFID-UNDP Cross-Regional Grants Competition for Non‐Profit Organizations

Application Deadline:

Expression of Interest: 30 March 2015, 17:00 00 (GMT +2)

Final Application Process: 31st May 2015, 17:00 (GM

The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are launching the first joint Cross‐Regional Grants Competition.

The competition will help address shared development challenges of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The Competition will bring together non‐profit organizations from ECA and MENA in order to develop and share innovative and scalable development solutions in two areas:

(1) Affordable Energy and Water, and

(2) Economic Governance and Employment.

These will take the form of small‐scale practical projects that can later be scaled up with addition practical projects that can later be scaled up with addition.

For this Call for Proposals applications will be accepted from non‐profit organizations that are registered and operating in the following countries and territories:

Middle East and North Africa: Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Somalia,

State of Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.

Note: special preference will be given to applications from NGOs and/or involving NGOs from Djibouti, Morocco, Somalia, State of Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Yemen

ELIGIBILITY: WHO MAY APPLY?

In order to be eligible for the grant, applicants and partners should:

Operate in the countries covered by this grant competition.
Be a non‐profit making organisation registered under the relevant laws of the country where it is registered-registration certificate duly translated into English needs to be submitted with the proposal as proof of the status of the organization. Various types of legal entities are entitled to participate in the call, including but not limited to civil society organizations, academic institutions, and business associations.
Be directly responsible for the preparation, management and implementation of the project and need to demonstrate prior experience in implementing activities in the thematic areas of the call.

Eligible activities for funding:

Projects can include (but are not limited to) the following type of activities:

Research activities;
Developing technical solutions and prototypes;
Organization of events (seminars/ trainings/ workshops/ conferences) with the aim of knowledge sharing and development of technical solutions;
Documenting solutions/ prototypes or innovative id

The grants will be awarded for projects that have:

• Have cross‐regional coverage. Therefore, the projects have to be developed in partnership between at least two different participating countries, including at least one from each region, but with strong emphasis on the lower‐income countries.

• Deal with testing and implementing new approaches, adapting existing approaches to new contexts, or applying what has been learned from previous work.

• Demonstrate the potential for community‐level impact and that have the potential to be scaled up into larger programme

GRANT FUNDING

This grant competition is expected to result in funding of three to five cross-regional projects. The number of grants awarded will depend on the number of high-quality applications received.

Size of grants:

Minimum: 20,000 USD

Maximum: 55,000 USD

The grant can over up to 100% of the eligible costs of a proposed project or can come as a contribution to a larger project with clear indication of how it contributes to the bigger initiative.

Submission Stages:

The OFID‐UNDP grant competition will begin with the launch of the call for project proposals on 2 February 2015.
This grant competition has a two-staged approach:

1) Expression of Interest phase

During this stage the potential applicant(s) have to develop an initial project idea and provide a clear concept of what project an organization wants and is qualified to do.

The documents have to be sent no later than 30 March 2015, 17:00 (GMT+2)

to the following email address: [email protected]. Acknowledgement of receipt of the documents will be sent to the applicants

Full Application phase

After the partnership of at least 2 partners is established, the project idea has to be developed as required in the Annex B – Full application form and Annex C – Budget

The deadline to submit all the documents will be 31 May 2015, 17:00 (GMT+2) to the following email address: [email protected].

Timeline:

2 February: Launching the grant competition
30 March: Deadline for sending the Expressions of interest
Mid‐April: Notification of selection of Expressions of interest
31 May: Deadline for sending the Full application
Mid‐June: Notification of award

Application Documents:

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the 2015 OFID-UNDP Cross-Regional Grants Competition

2 comments

Joseph F. Gassimu March 26, 2015 - 12:59 pm

our organisation is interested into this grant award. the countries measured above are faced with similar challenges likes ours i.e Sierra Leone one of the hard hit countries in west Africa by the deadly Ebola Virious
can we apply please

lanredahunsi March 26, 2015 - 1:15 pm

@Joseph: No you can not, It is for NGOs in the MENA Region. Best Regards.

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