Deadline: 29-Apr-22
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched the 2022 Call for Proposals for the Regional Public Goods (RPG) Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean, which supports regional projects involving three or more countries.
The Initiative defines regional public goods (RPGs) as goods, services or resources that are produced and consumed collectively by the public sector and, if appropriate, the private, non-profit sector in a minimum of three borrowing member countries of the IDB. The Initiative focuses on RPGs that have the potential to generate significant shared benefits and positive spillover effects. Spillover effects can be expressed in terms of scope (benefits extend beyond the originally targeted sector in each country) and/or scale (benefits extend beyond the original group of countries).
The RPG Initiative seeks to finance specific regional coordination products that can then be implemented at the national level by the participating countries and other interested countries that could not participate in the original project. This type of products can be, for example, regional regulatory frameworks, harmonized legislation and common agreements or standards among countries; regional sectoral strategies and action plans; diagnoses and studies in support of investment decisions or projects at the regional level; and methodologies and instruments of regional application.
Thematic Focus
The RPG Initiative will only finance proposals that address the cross-cutting challenges of the IDB’s Institutional Strategy. The proposals submitted must be framed in one or more of the following five (5) priority areas of the Vision 2025 of the IDB Group for the implementation of the IDB’s Institutional Strategy and the region’s post-pandemic recovery:
- strengthening of regional value chains;
- digital economy;
- support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs);
- gender equality and diversity;
- Climate change.
Funding and Duration Information
- The size of the grant typically averages US$500,000 per project. In the case of second phase proposals, the cap for financing is US$250,000.
- The period to implement an RPG project will be of a maximum of three (3) years.
Eligible Expenses
The Initiative may finance the following expenses:
- Consulting fees, understood as national or international individual or firms;
- Travel and per diem expenses for national and international consultants hired under the project, and staff of participating institutions to attend project-related meetings, workshops and training events;
- Costs of organizing meetings, including simultaneous interpretation and related support services (technical support), secretarial services required to organize and/or conduct meetings; rental of equipment necessary and purchase of certain meeting-related supplies, etc.;
- Publication/reproduction of documents and materials, including printing, editing, translation, distribution of documents and materials and the right to reproduce them (copyright), provided that this documentation results from, or is used in, project-related activities;
- Project evaluation and audit (mandatory requirement for all projects).
Eligibility Criteria
- The following entities are eligible to submit proposals:
- Public national, sub-national and local institutions in the IDB’s borrowing member countries with legal capacity to enter into agreements with the Bank.
- Private, non-profit entities that are legally established in one of the IDB’s borrowing member countries.
- Latin American and/or Caribbean regional or sub-regional institutions with legal capacity to enter into agreements with the IDB.
- Each project can only have one executing agency.
For more information, visit https://www.iadb.org/en/news/idb-launches-2022-call-regional-projects-latin-america-and-caribbean