Deadline: 28-Apr-25
The REnew Pacific is calling for applications from potential partners to deliver off-grid renewable energy solutions in remote and rural communities across the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste.
This Call for Proposals seeks solutions that will:
- increase access to reliable and affordable off-grid renewable energy in rural and remote communities
- improve lives, livelihoods and climate resilience of remote communities, especially women and people with disabilities.
Scope
- They are looking for cost effective, long-lasting solutions to the well-informed development and climate resilience needs of rural and remote communities that are based on renewable energy generation.
- The following forms of renewable energy generation will be considered eligible:
- Solar
- Wind
- Hydro
- Tidal
- Biogas
- Note: generation of energy through biomass is ineligible for this round.
- Battery storage and other forms of system firming are eligible.
- Micro-grids, mini-grids, wiring and distribution systems to households or facilities, metering systems, controllers, monitors and inverters are eligible.
- Where renewable energy is the primary source of electricity generation, appliances to convert the electricity to priority development and climate adaptation outcomes for beneficiary communities will be considered, for example:
- Lighting
- Cold storage, refrigeration and freezing
- Dessication and other forms of processing for food or agricultural products
- e-Transport
- Water purification and desalination
- Water pumping or irrigation
- Health care, education and IT appliances
- Communications.
Funding Information
- Funding range: $250,000 to $3,000,000
- Duration
- Early project completion will be considered favourably.
- For complex or larger-scale projects, the project duration will not exceed 31 December 2028 to allow timely project closures in preparation for the REnew Pacific program-end reporting and closure.
Geographic Location
- Applications can originate from any country, but activities associated with a grant must take place in a Pacific Island Country (PIC) or Timor Leste.
- The proposal must include involvement of at least one organisation that is based, legally registered and/or able to operate in a PIC or Timor Leste.
- Eligible PICs include ODA-eligible Pacific Island Forum (PIF) member states and Timor-Leste with off-grid renewable energy needs. ODA-eligible PIF members currently are:
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Kiribati
- Nauru
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Republic of Marshall Islands
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu.
Eligibility Criteria
- Partnership
- A partnership approach is embedded in REnew Pacific. This is considered necessary in most cases to achieve the range of capabilities required for every project: appropriate technical solutions; community engagement; and financing.
- These partnerships can include members from the private sector, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), community and religious organisations (e.g. church groups), academic institutions, utilities and government entities.
- Partners should demonstrate their joint capabilities and experience to successfully deliver their project and describe the roles of each formal partner and key collaborators that will be engaged in delivery of the solution.
- Lead applicant
- One organisation within the partnership must be the lead applicant.
- Localised development outcomes
- Applications must describe the human development outcomes that will be achieved through provision of access to renewable energy.
- Specifically, applications must demonstrate how the renewable energy solution will enhance livelihoods and improve wellbeing of remote and rural Pacific communities and how outcomes will be sustained and owned by remote and rural Pacific communities. The application must provide evidence of local community consultation to highlight the demand for the project.
For more information, visit REnew Pacific.