Applications Open for the Innovative Solutions for Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa Programme

Deadline: 15-Jul-24

Applications are now open for the Innovative Solutions for Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa programme to support African countries to improve the education and training of teachers and to make sure that their schools have enough qualified teachers.

The initiative contributes to regional and national objectives by supporting and complementing national education and teacher reforms, offering opportunities for countries to work together, supporting partnerships and peer learning for teachers in the region, and also to work with Europe.

Objectives

• The general objective of the Call for Proposals is to improve learning outcomes and the socio-emotional development of children in Africa, by having a more competent, motivated and inclusive teacher workforce.
• The specific objective of this Call for Proposals is, by identifying and supporting the scaling-up of innovative solutions, to enhance the quality, relevance and effectiveness of initial and continuous teacher professional development in four thematic priorities:
  • pedagogy for foundational learning;
  • green skills;
  • digital skills and
  • gender transformative pedagogy.
• Please ensure that proposals align with teaching challenges spanning from early childhood to lower secondary education.

Funding Information

• Any grant application under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • Minimum amount: 200.000,00 EUR
  • Maximum amount: 400.000,00 EUR
• The programme will finance 90% of eligible expenditures presented in the final financial report of the innovative solution submitted. The contracting-beneficiary shall bear the remaining 10%.
• During execution, Enabel reserves the right to modify the minimum and maximum amounts applicable to the requests and to award additional amounts to the beneficiaries having been awarded grants within the framework of this call for proposals.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicant
  • To be eligible for grants, the applicant must satisfy the following conditions:
    • be a legal person; and
    • be effectively established in the countries or territories defined as eligible to procurement and grant procedures for actions financed under Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI – Global Europe) for the period 2021-2027; and
    • be a public actor or be a private non-profit actor; and
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and not be acting as an intermediary; and
    • have already managed a grant (of public funds) amounting to 40% of the amount applied for. A certificate of satisfactory performance signed by the donor is mandatory and constitutes proof thereof; and
    • dispose of financial statements certified by an independent body (audit or statutory commissioner). Those statements must not be older than 2 years.
  • The applicant may act on its own or with one or more co-applicants.
• Co-applicant(s)
  • The co-applicant(s) shall participate in the implementation of the action, and the costs that they incur shall be eligible in the same way as those incurred by the applicant.
  • The co-applicant(s) must satisfy the eligibility criteria which apply to the applicant itself, except that:
    • they don’t need to prove that they have already managed a grant amounting to 40% of the amount applied for;
  • If the grants are awarded to them, any co-applicants will become the beneficiaries of the action, with the Contracting-Beneficiary.
  • Co-applicants cannot be added or removed in-between the 2 Rounds. The following persons are not coapplicants. They do not need to sign the ‘mandate’ statement.

For more information, visit Enabel.