Deadline: 23-Oct-23
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is inviting national and international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as well as Organizations of the Malagasy Civil Society (CSO) to submit their proposal in the field of women’s empowerment through the promotion of domestic biogas service and improved adapted biogas stoves.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) country office in Madagascar aims to contribute through its initiatives to the overall objective of providing access to clean, sustainable and affordable energy to 500 million people, half of whom are women. To this end, the country office is leading a number of projects and initiatives aimed at improving access to modern energy services that can make them more self-reliant.
The “Powering Equality” initiative implemented by the national Africa Mini grid Program (AMP) project is an opportunity to improve Malagasy women’s access to clean and affordable energy and to make them autonomous towards structural transformation. This initiative attempts to target vulnerable women furthest from mini-grids by offering them decentralized solutions for access to decentralized renewable energy access solutions which complement the inadequacies of mini-grids. This activity will attempt to bridge the gap in access to clean cooking energy for targeted groups of women and create business opportunities for them.
Objectives and Expected Results/Deliverables
- The pre-selected NGOs/CSOs will be interviewed for a final selection.
- The proposal prioritizes the following interconnected outcomes:
- Economic empowerment of women by strengthening the capacities of beneficiaries in the manufacturing and maintenance of mobile domestic biodigesters and biogas cooking stoves;
- Strengthening skills in energy matters aimed at a market with developed services;
- Overall objective to be achieved by the Energy for Equality initiative:
- R.1: Development of energy solutions for 2 groups of women (at least 10 women per group) through training on manufacturing and maintenance of mobile biodigesters for the production of domestic biogas as well as the manufacture of biogas cookers from locally available materials lower cost to power clean cooking as an energy alternative to biomass (firewood and charcoal);
- R.2: Adoption of entrepreneurship tools by targeted groups of women and access to the market for energy products:
- training in entrepreneurship and market opportunities,
- support for the formation of women in cooperatives to guarantee investments and income;
- business management training.
Funding Information
- Proposal amounts should not exceed USD 35,000 for direct interventions including all costs relating to training and equipment activities in the two regions.
Zones d’Intervention
- One (01) group of women (at least 10 women per group) will be selected in each region.
- Analamanga Region (Communes: Mahitsy & Antananarivo) and
- South West: Rural Commune of Ankililoaky (District of Toliara II).
Final Beneficiaries
- The target women or groups of women and their respective communities constitute the final beneficiaries of this initiative.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible proposals will be those focused on the principle of empowering women and particularly targeting women as direct and final beneficiaries, by strengthening their competence in the development of energy produced by biogas, so that women can access and engage economic affairs related to biogas services.
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