Canadian Small and Medium Organizations for Impact and Innovation

Deadline: 22-Sep-21

The Government of Canada is calling for concept notes for Canadian Small and Medium Organizations for Impact and Innovation to engage Canadian SMOs in international assistance efforts in areas consistent with Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy.

Objectives

• Under this call, your proposed project must contribute to the achievement of the objectives of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, which seeks to reduce poverty and vulnerability and build a more peaceful, inclusive and prosperous world.
• The policy recognizes that promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls is the most effective approach to achieving this goal.

Areas

Proposed projects must align with at least one of the action areas outlined in Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy:

• Action area 1 (core action area): Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls
• Action area 2: Human dignity
• Action area 3: Growth that works for everyone
• Action area 4: Environment and climate action
• Action area 5: Inclusive governance
• Action area 6: Peace and security

Funding Information

• The total amount of funding available under this call for concept notes is up to $23 million over five years.
• You are requesting Global Affairs Canada funding of at least $500,000 and no more than $2,000,000.
• Your proposed project will last at least three years but no more than five years.

Eligibility Criteria

• Carefully review the following eligibility screening requirements, which will be used to evaluate submitted application packages for this call. Global Affairs Canada will not pre-assess or comment on the eligibility of potential applications.
• To be eligible, applicants must meet each requirement and, where stipulated, provide supporting documentation. If your organization is submitting a concept note in partnership with other organizations, each of which would co-sign the funding agreement with Global Affairs Canada, then each organization (i.e. co-signatory) must meet the eligibility requirements and provide documentation that demonstrates they meet these eligibility requirements, including the following:
  • Your organization is a Canadian organization, which means for the purpose of this call that your organization is legally incorporated in Canada with a Canada Revenue Agency business number. Your organization must also have an office, employees, and/or board of directors in Canada.
  • You are providing a Canadian SMO attestation form signed by your organization’s chief financial officer, financial director or president indicating that your organization is a Canadian SMO according to the definition for this call for concept notes which you will find at the end of this section.
  • You are providing two separate financial statements for the two most recently completed fiscal years. Audited statements are preferred. Otherwise, statements must be signed by a member of the board of directors or their delegate, or by the owner(s). As financial statements usually provide comparative information from the previous year, these statements will be used to do a three-year trend analysis.
  • You are submitting only one application under this call (either on your own or with other Canadian SMOs).
    • If your organization submits more than one application under this call, either on your own or as a co-signatory to a funding agreement, they will only consider the one with the earliest submission time stamp.
  • Your organization has not been approved for funding under the two previous SMO calls i.e. the 2017 Call for Preliminary Proposals of the Development Impact Window of the Canadian Small and Medium Organizations for Impact and Innovation initiative or the 2019 call for concept notes – Development Impact Window – Canadian Small and Medium Organizations for Impact and Innovation.
• Definition of small or medium organization (SMO): the consolidated revenue in your organization’s financial statements is equal to or less than $10 million (this limitation does not apply to educational institutions) and your organization does not have annual overseas expenditures exceeding $2 million in development assistance (i.e. projects administered with the promotion of the economic development and welfare of developing countries as their main objective (regardless of the funding source).
• If you are an educational institution, you are not required to have consolidated revenues equal to or less than $10 million, but you are still required to submit a signed Canadian SMO attestation form. However, in order to be considered a SMO, an educational institution cannot have annual overseas expenditures in development assistance exceeding $2 million.
• All organizations must meet the definition of an SMO and all of the above requirements to be eligible to apply under this call.

For more information, visit https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/funding-financement/smo_call-2021-appel_pmo.aspx?lang=eng