Deadline: 17 October 2016
WISIONS is currently inviting applications for its Sustainable Energy Project Support (SEPS) Knowledge Exchange program with an aim to mobilize knowledge and expertise among energy practitioners and other stakeholders in the field of sustainable energy technologies in the ‘Global South’, with a focus on decentralized energy solutions. Consequently, applications for SEPS Knowledge Exchange support should be directly linked to sustainable energy solutions applying renewable energy technologies.
The proposed SEPS Knowledge Exchange should allow for interaction between practitioners with significant experience in the implementation of decentralized renewable energy solutions in the target region(s). The SEPS Knowledge Exchange may include the participation of experts and organizations from other global regions, although the focus should be on developing and maximizing knowledge and expertise in countries in the target region(s).
Regional Focus
This call for proposals is aimed at both focus regions of WISIONS – Latin America and the Caribbean, and South/South East Asia.
Activities
SEPS Knowledge Exchanges facilitate peer-to-peer interactions among practitioners, as well as between practitioners and other relevant stakeholders. The target groups for SEPS Knowledge Exchanges are energy practitioners and organizations, together with other stakeholders, in the Global South (south-south exchange).
SEPS Knowledge Exchange activities should relate to one or more of the following focus areas:
- Capacity-building: strengthening technical, managerial, communication or other skills of practitioners.
- South-South mutual learning: facilitating mutual learning among organizations active in the Global South.
- Practice-to-policy exchange: addressing potentials & barriers to specific energy technologies or delivery models to raise awareness and generate policy recommendations.
- Advocacy and awareness-raising activities: defining strategies for the effective advocacy of critical topics; creating awareness for specific technologies and/or challenges relating to sustainable energy; implementing and supporting concepts for motivating the local population.
- Others: WISIONS is open to creative ideas on how to expand the knowledge base and to strengthen capacities of practitioners as well as of other stakeholders.
Funding Information
Around 6 – 10 knowledge exchange activities will be selected, with total maximum combined financial support of 300,000 EUR.
Eligibility Criteria
The SEPS Knowledge Exchange proposals should meet the following criteria:
- Focus on knowledge creation, conservation, dissemination and/or capacity-building
- Active involvement of at least one organization with proven commitment in the field of access to sustainable energy
- Experience in and commitment to one of the proposed regions
- Clear focus on South-South exchange
- Clear definition of the knowledge need(s) and gap(s) addressed
- Clear definition of the expected outputs and outcomes
- Relevance to the general aims of universal access to energy and sustainable development.
How to Apply
Applicants are required to submit the following:
- a completed applications form
- a separate budget plan in EUROS
- a timeline and working plan
Eligibile Countries
- Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands
- South and Central America: Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
- South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
- South East Asia: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam
For more information, please visit SEPS Knowledge Exchange.