Deadline: 07-Jul-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with funding from the Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF), is inviting applications from second-cycle schools to submit proposals on project ideas to address waste management challenges in Ghana.
This falls under the upcoming Integrated Waste Management Fair (IWMF), seeking to provide an opportunity to connect the different strands of work on waste management and different stakeholders to enable cross-fertilization of solutions, partnerships and resources to support businesses, government and the citizenry to transition to a green and circular economy.
Objectives
- To promote awareness among the general populace, particularly the youth on the challenges of waste management
- To encourage hands-on solutions for integrated waste management
- To identify and strengthen the role that individuals, institutions, especially schools can play in providing solutions for waste management.
Funding Information
- The total grant funds requested must not be more than US$ 4,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The funding request is for a specific, new and innovative idea/project that addresses the waste management challenge. The ISWMC/UNDP views innovation in its broadest sense including: i) a new approach, product, idea or service that has not been tested anywhere; ii) an approach, product, idea or service that is new to Ghana; or iii) an approach, product, idea or service that has not been applied to waste recovery and management in Ghana but presents the best possible opportunity to provide lasting solutions.
- Applicants must demonstrate that the project could not go ahead without ISWMC/UNDP funding or that, if it would go ahead anyway, it would be at a much-reduced pace or scale.
- The idea must be implemented in Ghana by the students.
- The proposal should be submitted by the head teacher, but the project/idea must be developed and implemented by students with the guidance of a teacher.
For more information, visit https://www.gh.undp.org/content/ghana/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2021/innovative-solutions-for-waste-management-challenge.html