Deadline: 17-Dec-20
UNDP Accelerator Lab in Bosnia and Herzegovina is launching ‘Cisto, da se zna!’ challenge inviting innovative proposals from interested neighbourhoods or community facilitators on how to make communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina cleaner and reduce waste.
The objective of the ‘Cisto, da se zna’ Innovation Challenge is to identify and support innovative community-driven and collaborative initiatives that test blueprint waste management approaches within a selected community zone and thus help transform it into a clean, green area, which is sustainably kept as such through community and business ownership.
Focus Areas
Innovation Challenge invites proposals that combine transformative actions from at least two of the three areas below:
- Area I: reduce waste;
- Area II: reuse waste;
- Area III: recycle waste.
Funding Information
- UNDP will award up to 5 initiatives and financing from UNDP per initiative cannot exceed BAM 10,000 (VAT excluded).
- The duration of each initiative should not exceed 6 months.
Eligibility Criteria
Proposals can be submitted by:
- Non-governmental organizations (grass-root organizations, civil society organizations, citizen associations, local development agencies, innovation centers, etc.) registered in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Local communities (mjesne zajednice) in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- The role of applicants in the proposal is that of community facilitator. Applicants can submit applications individually. Please note that the applying legal entity needs to have an organizational bank account. For the applicants (mainly MZs) that do not have bank accounts in their name, it is encouraged to seek for partnership organizations that can receive the project funds. This Innovation Challenge highly encourages partnerships with one or more of the below-listed stakeholders: private sector (companies, start-ups, shops, etc.);
- Public and private educational and cultural institutions (elementary and secondary schools, libraries, etc.);
- Local government utility companies;
- Behavioural scientists;
- Informal citizens’ groups;
- ‘Unusual’ individual stakeholders or community ‘influencers’;
- Media;
- Non-governmental organizations other than the applying one;
- Mjesne zajednice, other than the applying one.
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