REEEP announces its 9th Call for Proposals

The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) has announced a call for proposals under its 9th programme cycle to provide support of €4.1 million in total as funding to up to 30 projects. The project call has been made possible by the contributions of the Governments of Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

REEEP acts as a market catalyst for renewable energy and energy efficiency specifically focusing on developing countries and emerging economies. Under this call for proposals, it is inviting NGOs, governments, regulators, businesses, enterprises, local financial institutions and others to submit project proposals that facilitate the upscaling of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies at national and international levels.

This 9th Programme Cycle REEEP is interested in funding projects that will:

•        scale–up business models for clean energy to ensure growth in existing markets and new market penetration;

•        support decentralised and/or off-grid generation to extend access to energy and its related opportunities;

•        harness the benefits of clean energy in food production and the efficient use of energy in agricultural applications;

•        employ clean energy in providing reliable water supply; and

•        support communication and provide and open up energy data and information to

•        assist with informed decision making and planning as energy systems change.

Funded projects are required to be implemented over a 12-month period. Longer-term projects of up to 24 months’ duration are possible in special cases.

REEEP is seeking proposals from selected priority countries: Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Brazil, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao PDR, Liberia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Vietnam.

Any proposal from a non-target country has a very low chance of securing funding; you may submit a proposal with the understanding that the chances are low.

The deadline for initial proposals for new projects due by 21 September 2012. For more information, visit this link.

Stop TB Challenge Partnership’s Challenge Facility for Civil Society Fifth round of the funding open

Deadline- 30 September 2012

Proposals are invited for The Stop TB Partnership´s Challenge Facility for Civil Society (CFCS) which aims to provide support to community-based organizations engaged in advocacy and social mobilization activities seeking to raise awareness and empower communities to become part of the solution in the fight against TB.

For this round, in order to address one of the most crucial needs in TB, the special focus of the successful applications should be on activities that build the capacity of civil society to advocate for services and that contribute to the creation of a network of advocates prepared to speak out and raise consciousness about challenges in reaching affected communities with TB care and help solve bottlenecks in TB programmes or Global Fund grant implementation.

Communities are coming together to advocate and improve their own access to health services and increasingly organizing to plan and deliver effective healthcare on a large scale. Though it will never replace or match the national delivery of health, it can and does make a considerable contribution acting synergistically to improve access for marginalized groups, maintaining contact and referral to health services and ultimately creating a highly effective network of health interventions and community health systems.

Eligibility-

To be considered for a Challenge Facility grant an organization must-

• have a basic management structure and processes in place
• be solvent, with or without Stop TB Partnership`s funding for the organization
• represent and serve an identifiable community, such as people living with TB, MDR-TB, TB/HIV, women, children, poor/neglected communities, or people living in remote rural areas with significant burden of TB
• have a track record of carrying out activities with tangible outputs and outcomes in the area of advocacy or social mobilization
• have a clearly defined vision, mission and set of objectives
• have experience providing grass roots level support to communities
• have links with other development and/or health institutions

In order to be eligible for the Challenge Facility for Civil Society, applications must:

• be duly filled out (with all required fields completed)
• be received by the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat along with all supporting documents before the application deadline
• not exceed US$20,000 per proposal
• not exceed 12 months duration
• have clearly defined objectives, activities and outcomes (with measures) which are achievable through the specific project for which funding is being requested
• have documentation to confirm that it is a registered organization
• have been operating for at least one full year (according to date exhibited on registration certificate)
• propose a budget in which the proportion of funding spent on salary & administrative costs does not exceed 25% of the total budget. The rest of the funding should be spent on direct programme related activities (70%-75% on activities vs. not more than 25%-30% on salaries/admin)
• agree to be part of the Stop TB Partnership TB Advocates Networks and share their knowledge through that platform
• if a recipient of a previous round, please add to the application the financial report and final report on what was achieved using the funds received.

Successful Proposals should show in the application that they-

• prepare civil society to advocate to improve TB prorgramme and reach out to build coalitions organized to increase funding and other resources for TB
• benefit TB patients and their community, facilitating their meaningful involvement in the project proposed
• demonstrate clear links with partners providing services within standards set by the public health sector, e.g. local health centres or the country’s TB control programme
• have an innovative element for advocacy and TB networking
• have trainings/workshops as an outPUT and not outCOME
• clearly state how it will achieve, monitor and evaluate the outcomes
• focus on capacity building and community engagement in TB care and prevention
• describe how the results of the activities will be measured and documented
• indicate how the activities to be undertaken using the grant will support the Stop TB Strategy of WHO, and other related policies such as the TB/HIV Collaborative Activities
• the inclusion of provision of health services is not a priority

How to apply?

• Applications are currently being accepted for the fifth round of the Stop TB Challenge Facility for Civil Society. The current round has a budget of US$300,000. Individual grants range from US$5,000 to US$20,000.
• Please ensure that all documents required are uploaded along with the application form to the online submission system. Incomplete applications will be screened out by the CFCS Secretariat and not be considered by the Selection Committee. Applications must be accompanied by:

1. a copy of the registration certificate of the organization
2. a copy of any clearance issued by the competent national authority showing that you may receive grant funds from outside the country, if such a clearance is required by your government. In case such a clearance is not sent to the Stop TB Partnership within two months of being notified of the NGO being selected to win the grant the award of the grant will be cancelled and no funds will be remitted.

For more information, visit this link

Mama Cash’s Red Umbrella Fund: First Call for Proposals

Mama Cash has announced the Red Umbrella Fund – a global grantmaking collaborative launched this year to support movements and organisations fighting for sex workers’ health, human and labour rights and self-determination.

The Fund will provide opportunities and grants for sex worker-led organisations to strengthen their capacities, such as organisational development and management, programme development and implementation, resource mobilisation, advocacy and communication skills, and monitoring and evaluation.

The Red Umbrella Fund will provide grants to support four types of activities to sex worker-led organizations and initiatives (including to organizations that are registered or not registered in their country:

1. Start up funds for informal groups to become legal entities;
2. Multi-year, core funding ;
3. Funds to support peer-led capacity building and exchanges;
4. Emergency grants with capacity for immediate response.

It  will also provide opportunities and grants for sex worker-led organizations to strengthen the capacity of grantee organizations stressing peer-to-peer mentoring in such areas as (but not limited to):

• Organizational development and management;
• Program development and implementation;
• Resource mobilization;
• Registration assistance;
• Advocacy and communications skills;
• Information dissemination;
• Monitoring and evaluation skills.

The Red Umbrella Fund has the specific mission to catalyse and raise new funding for sex-worker-led organisations and networks. The first-year grantmaking budget of the RUF is $700,000. The Red Umbrella Fund will provide start-up funding, multi-year and core funding, support for peer-led capacity-building and exchanges, and emergency grants to sex worker led organisations.  Grant amounts will be between $5,000 and $50,000.

The deadline to submit proposals is 15 September 2012. For more information, visit this link.

The Web Foundation and IDRC: Open Call for Proposals

The World Wide Web Foundation and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have launched the open call for proposals to explore emerging impacts of open data in the south.

This call is inviting research proposals that address current gaps in the evidence base underlying the implementation of open data initiatives, and to inform policy and practice in a range of different settings. Research partners will be invited to form part of an international research network over the course of 2013.

The project will fund a series of detailed case studies that examine the emerging impacts of specific on-going open data initiatives that address key development themes. Cases could look at:

• Open data in local and national budgeting processes
• Open data for legislation processes and elections
• Open data in judicial systems
• Open data for smarter cities
• Open data for the delivery of  privately provided public services
• Open data for the regulation of markets (e.g. extractive industries)
• Open data for the welfare and empowerment of marginalized groups and communities (e.g. data for small farmers)
• Open data and international development

The closing date for the call is 10th September 2012.

For more information, visit this link.