Deadline: 16 April 2017
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) is seeking bids for the Central America Programme Fund with an aim of improving the business environment in the region and promoting economic development.
The priorities include helping authorities to tackle corruption, promoting infrastructure development and improving bureaucracy, as well as wider development analysis.
Objectives
- Promote transparency and support anti-corruption efforts. Within this area, projects which support the uptake and implementation of international transparency standards and initiatives are encouraged. This includes public procurement, strengthening the judiciary and its ability to tackle corruption, and promoting/implementing rules developed by bodies such as the OECD.
- Infrastructure Development. This includes supporting the development of non-partisan, long term infrastructure pipelines to deliver a more strategic, cross party approach to infrastructure delivery. This also includes helping to support governments in their use of public private partnerships and to ensure governments are able to use this approach in an effective, sustainable manner.
- Vocational Education. To help governments in the region develop their vocational education delivery, particularly to support them in their curriculum design and ensuring that skill development matches the needs of the economy.
- Streamline bureaucracy processes. Projects on this strand should look to improve the speed of decision making within governments, reducing red tape and increasing efficiency, particularly in customs, promoting cross-border trade and investment.
- Wider business environment improvements. As well as specific capacity building projects, the CAPF would also consider projects which looked to identify other areas in which the region could work together to improve the business environment, and improve economic integration both within Central America and with external trade partners.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Countries: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
For more information, please visit Central America Programme Fund.
