Deadline: 2-Oct-20
Non-governmental organizations, non-profit development associations and grassroots, national, qualified and interested community organizations are invited to submit their applications for Micro Financing Program.
The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Program (SGP / GEF) is an institutional program of the GEF, implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and executed by the United Nations Office for Environmental Services. ‘Project support (UNOPS).
PMF / GEF supports communities that develop local solutions to conserve biological diversity, fight climate change, fight land degradation, protect international waters and manage products. Chemicals and waste.
The overall objective of the program is to support innovative community initiatives, inclusive and likely to have major impacts on populations and to promote multi-stakeholder partnerships, at the local level, for tackle global environmental issues in priority landscapes and seascapes.
Priorities
Priority will be projects aimed at:
- ensure the viability of food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices, allowing to increase productivity and production, while helping to preserve ecosystems;
- preserve the biological diversity of seeds, crops, animals, plants and ecosystems, including forests and sacred sites, and promote access to the benefits of the use of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge;
- facilitate access to non-polluting, affordable and sustainable energy sources for lighting, cooking and the development of economic activities, in particular the production, conservation, processing and marketing of agricultural products;
- strengthen institutional, organizational and technical capacities, as well as the participation of CSOs in local, regional, national and international processes of natural resource management and environmental protection;
- Support green entrepreneurship (creation of green jobs) for women and young people.
Areas of Interventions
Project proposals submitted to PMF / GEF must be initiatives whose results, adaptable and reproducible, could contribute, in a significant and unprecedented way, to sustainable development, particularly in the following GEF areas:
- biological diversity;
- climate changes ;
- international waters;
- land degradation and desertification;
- chemicals and hazardous waste.
Funding Information
- The maximum contribution to a project is $ 50,000, up to 75% of its total cost.
- The project application file must present a provisional implementation schedule not exceeding 36 months (3 years). This duration may vary from one call to another, but not more than 3 years
Eligibility Criteria
- Purpose of the project: Inscribed in the PMF / GEF mission, the national strategy and, where applicable, in the priorities mentioned in the call for projects.
- Partnership
- The beneficiaries of PMF / GEF grants must be established in the national territory and are legal persons (NGOs, non-profit development associations, groups, in particular those initiated by youth and / or women, village development committee, cantonal committee development, etc.).
- To these main beneficiaries, whose involvement is effective and measurable in the implementation of the project, may associate with other organizations / institutions. However, the latter cannot benefit from the grant requested from PMF / FEM. The National Coordination and the CNP may require the partnership with specific structures, for the implementation of a project financed by the program. Likewise, the National Coordination and the CNP may request the services of other structures or resource persons to coach, monitor and / or evaluate an organization supported and supported by the program.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=69656