Deadline: 30-Apr-22
The U.S. Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Political and Economic Section, is seeking proposals for community projects that address the improvement of people’s conditions in all ten regions of Cameroon.
Proposals can address one or more of the following areas: Social Services (education, health, vocational training, and local development-bridges); Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH); Income Generating Activities; and, Environment and Agriculture.
The Special Self-Help Fund (SSH) provides small-scale assistance to Cameroonian communities as part of the U.S. Government’s commitment to support development activities in Cameroon. Since 1983, the U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon has funded small community projects under the SSH program in all ten regions of Cameroon.
Project Categories and Acceptable Activities and Items
- Water Supply and Sanitation: Ensures broadly accessible, reliable and economically sustainable water and sanitation services to bolster healthy, secure, and prosperous communities.
- Safe Water Access: Water pumps and distribution systems, well drilling, bore holes, spring capping.
- Basic Sanitation: Toilets, sinks, etc. Innovative approaches to building demand for sanitation-related products and services are encouraged.
- Social Services
- Education and Training: Construction and/or equipment of schoolrooms, vocational training workshops/centers.
- Health: Construction and/or equipment of health facilities.
- Community Development: Foot bridges, community centers, solar energy, etc.
- Income Generating Activities: Food storage facilities, grinding mills, vocational training activities that produce employment and marketable skills.
- Environment/Agriculture: Financial or technical support for reforestation, and soil conservation including post-conflict or post-disaster settings, waste management, biodiversity conservation, and community agricultural projects.
Funding Information
The maximum support available for most projects is USD 10,000 (or about five million francs CFA).
Basic Project Requirements
- Initiated by the community and benefits the community by increasing income or improving living conditions.
- Benefits a large number of people.
- Involves a significant local contribution such as labor, materials, land, equipment, or money.
- Within the ability of the community to operate and maintain.
- Completed within one year without requiring further Self-Help Fund assistance, and
- Respects environmental norms.
Eligibility Criteria
The Ambassador’s Special Self-Help Fund is limited to locally registered Community Based Organizations (CBOs), associations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with at least two years of experience working in Cameroon. Recipients of two previous years’ Self-Help Fund grants are not eligible for the current year’s funds, which is the 3rd consecutive year. Organizations and entities with a prior history of poor performance of U.S. government grants are ineligible to apply for funding.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338435
