Deadline: 22-Nov-21
Is your organisation a business or NGO? Would you like to contribute to access to sustainable energy for households in developing countries? If yes, then your project may be able to get support from the SDG 7 Results programme: Access to renewable energy.
This programme uses results-based financing. This means that SDG 7 Results only provides subsidies once the agreed results have been achieved. The subsidies are based on the number of people who have gained access to renewable energy technologies and services.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs they use the SDG 7 Results programme to contribute to the sustainable development goals. SDG 7 Results contributes to SDG 7: affordable and clean energy, as well as:
- SDG 1: no poverty
- SDG 3: good health and well-being
- SDG 5: gender equality
- SDG 8: decent work and economic growth
- SDG 10: reduced inequalities
- SDG 13: climate action.
Goals
- SDG 7 Results aims to give 2 million people in developing countries access to renewable energy. Projects should contribute to one of the following goals:
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- access to electricity in homes;
- access to clean cooking in homes.
- With its projects, SDG 7 Results also wants to contribute to the following goals:
- low-carbon climate-resilient development;
- less gender inequality;
- private sector development and employment, and
- private investments in the renewable energy sector.
- The available budget for the tender round in 2022 is €8 million.
- Per project, you can apply for a subsidy of at least €250,000 and no more than €2.5 million.
- The SDG 7 Results programme is open to activities in the following countries: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso*, Chad*, Ethiopia*, Gambia, India, Kenya*, Mali*, Mozambique, Niger*, Nigeria*, Uganda*, Rwanda, Senegal*, Sudan*, Tanzania and South Sudan*.
- *priority countries. They will give extra points to applications for activities in one of these priority countries.
- Minimum conditions for the applicant
- To be considered under the SDG 7 Results facility, an applicant should:
- be an NGO or private enterprise;
- have at least 3 years of experience in the renewable energy sector;
- have a track record of at least 2 years in the country where the project will be carried out, or its surrounding countries, collectively referred to as ‘the region’;
- be financially stable and able to demonstrate their ability to (pre) finance the activities;
- have the relevant licenses for operating in the target market before submitting a grant application;
- have auditable digital accounting records to verify sales and project costs to provide an audit report checked by an independent auditor at the end of the project.
- To be considered under the SDG 7 Results facility, an applicant should:
- Minimum conditions for the project
- To be considered under the SDG 7 Results facility, a project should:
- focus on poor and vulnerable households;
- focus on access to renewable energy for efficient and clean cooking for households and/or decentralised and renewably generated electricity for households;
- promote access at specified minimum service levels as described in article 4.5 of the policy document for the facility: Government Gazette on SDG7;
- be completed in a maximum of 4 years;
- focus on one of the eligible countries;
- be ‘additional’ to the target market and the usual business of the applicant, where ‘additionality’ concerns the extent to which the project can only be implemented when subsidised;
- concern activities for which the requested grant is no lower than € 250,000 and no higher than € 2,500,000 while not exceeding 35% the project costs.
- To be considered under the SDG 7 Results facility, a project should:
For more information, visit https://english.rvo.nl/subsidies-programmes/sdg-7-results-access-renewable-energy