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Request for Proposals: Climate Gender Equity Fund

RFPs: Special Fund for Nature-based Solutions Site-based Grants for Batanes (Philippines)

Deadline: 6-Oct-23

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with the support of Amazon, has launched the Climate Gender Equity Fund (CGEF, or the Fund) – a public-private partnership to leverage funding to scale climate finance that advances gender equitable climate action.

CGEF’s grantmaking will be managed by 2X Global, an international non-profit membership organization and the leading global industry body working at the nexus of climate and gender finance.

CGEF aims to increase access to finance for the investment vehicles, businesses, and community-based organizations developing and scaling women-led and women benefiting climate solutions in global emerging markets where USAID operates.

This request for proposals (RFP) formally launches the first CGEF funding round and seeks to reach climate- and gender-smart fund managers and entrepreneur networks aiming to unlock capital for long-term and systemic change at the nexus of gender and climate finance across developing markets. The funding round seeks applications from the following:

Grant Categories

To be eligible for funding in this first round, your organization must be either:

Organizations may propose to use grant funding for a variety of purposes including building their own capacity to provide gender-smart and gender transformative climate finance, sustaining their own organization through vital working capital, making track record deals and/or portfolio investments, providing pre- or post-investment technical assistance (TA) to pipeline or portfolio companies and/or, in the case of network organizations, making grants to women entrepreneurs advancing climate-smart products or services. Preference will be given to proposals that include the use of funds to invest in or extend grant funding to women-led businesses leading climate solutions. Preference will also be given to proposals that emphasize how use of funds will be catalytic in nature, particularly for mobilizing additional private capital for women-led climate solutions.

Funding Information

CGEF is targeting grant awards of US$100,000 to US$300,000, but will consider grants up to US$500,000 depending on the proposed level of impact.

Eligibility Criteria

For more information, visit 2X Global.

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