Deadline: 04-Aug-21
The French Development Agency (Agence Francaise de Developpement – AFD) and Civil Society Innovation Fund is willing to finance Ethiopian Civil Society Organizations (CSO) to implement projects aiming at strengthening the diversification and innovation of Ethiopian civil society, to ensure a pluralistic and democratic organizational sphere, novel and creative civic activism and the defence of civic and associational rights of Ethiopian citizens.
The call for proposals “Civil Society Innovation Fund” (the “Call”) aims at financing projects managed by Civil Society Organizations (CSO) registered in Ethiopia in the areas of gender, media and human rights.
The selected consortia of CSOs will be then invited to complete their appraisal processes, working closely with the AFD Project Team, and submit a final comprehensive project proposal. This final proposal must include any points arising from the discussions with AFD, thus allowing the Project Manager to present the projects to AFD’s governing bodies.
Funding Information
- The AFD has earmarked a fund of maximum 2.1 EUR million to fund 2 to 4 projects, with a duration of maximum of 36 months. The projects selected are expected to be between 500,000 € and 1,000,000 €.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be registered in Ethiopia;
- Must have past experience in project implementation in the areas of media, human rights and/or gender;
- Must agree to apply as a consortium and define how they will share roles and responsibilities;
- Should be able to collaborate smoothly:
- with the Ethiopian authorities, as well as
- with AFD local office in Ethiopia and AFD headquarters;
- Must collectively demonstrate a capacity to implement and manage, financially and logistically, a project of the scale of the proposal. In this regard, the cumulated average turnover of the consortium over the last three years, or since the creation of the CSOs if established after the Civil Society Proclamation in 2019, must be at least 70% of the yearly amount of the project budget.
For more information, visit http://csinnovationfund.org/call-for-proposals/