Deadline: 15-May-23
Mekong Institute is pleased to announce the Mekong-Republic of Korea Cooperation Fund to provide a grant for projects that are of regional in nature.
Such project is aligned with the priorities of the country to address national issues that facilitate regional integration process. The funded project can be implemented in a single country, in the meantime benefits should be shared among the countries in the Mekong region and the RoK so that the cooperation and integration in the General Mekong Subregion are fostered.
Priorities Areas
The MKCF’s Seven Priority Areas The Fund provides grants to support catalytic and innovative activities in the seven priority sectors:
- Culture and Tourism,
- Human Resources Development,
- Agriculture and Rural Development,
- Infrastructure,
- Information and Communication Technology (ICT),
- Environment, and
- Non-traditional Security Challenges.
Funding Information
- The contribution of the Fund per project proposal is minimum of 300,000 USD and maximum of 1,000,000 USD.
- The fund encourages projects promoting 3-way (triangular) or 4-way (quadripartite) collaboration with other donors, including but not limited to the Mekong River Commission (MRC), Japan, United States (US), Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada etc. Extra budgetary funds should be leveraged, when needed, to facilitate such projects.
- The fund provides grants for joint activities with a regional or international entity, formalized through a cooperation agreement and is considered as regional.
- Activities which are not eligible for funding include construction of buildings and payment of rent or utilities.
- The time frame of the project should be 2-3 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Government agencies/Autonomous Organization from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Viet Nam, Thailand (CLMVT) and organizations from the RoK.
- Non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, and training institutes from CLMVT and the RoK.
- International Organizations, including UN Agencies, and other International Non-Governmental Organizations having operating offices in the Mekong countries and RoK.
- Experience in implementing development projects for at least 5 years.
- Assistance to individuals will not be provided.
- NB – Projects proposals of entirely of research nature or academic research are not encouraged under this fund.
Selection Process
- The announcement of Expression of Interest (EOI) submission from the 5 Mekong countries and the RoK
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of the 5 Mekong Countries and ROK collect the EOIs and forward them to MI.
- MI reviews the EOIs, makes a shortlist and submits them to the MOFA-RoK.
- MOFA RoK reviews the EOIs and shortlists the EOIs for full proposal
- MI notifies the shortlisted EOIs and Mekong SOM leader and RoK
- The shortlisted EOIs prepare the full proposal, MI conducts due diligence / assessment and provide advisory services
- MI conducts final review of the proposals and submits to RoK requests for approval
For more information, visit Mekong Institute.
