Deadline: 9-May-22
The Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) is now inviting applications for its Social and Inclusive Business and Waste Management.
The proposals submitted by NGOs should be based on an analysis of the context of the area of intervention according to the waste categorization, the existing organization for waste management, the vulnerabilities of the beneficiary populations, and their specific needs. This analysis of the context must incorporate a gender perspective.
Dimensions
- In addition, the AFD will be particularly sensitive to the following dimensions:
- Approach integrating prevention and waste management
- A partnership approach aims to bring together different types of actors and different types of structures.
- Ability to replicate innovation
- Taking into account gender inequalities with, as far as possible, a transformative approach to these inequalities
- Inclusion of informal populations who are dependent on the waste value chain
- Linkage and synergies with public policies and local authorities
Challenge
- The challenge of global warming: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the first part of its 6th report on 9 August 2021. This assessment report released by the UN scientific body provides new estimates of the possibility of global warming exceeding 1.5°C (the limit set for 2100 by the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement) in the coming decades.
- The challenge of waste prevention and management: On a global scale, solid or liquid waste is a major contributor to climate change and is one of the largest sources of pollution. According to the World Bank’s What a Waste 2.0 report, the situation is particularly critical for plastic waste, which represented 242 million tonnes worldwide in 2016, accounting for 12% of all global solid waste.
Funding Information
- The total amount of waste produced in developing countries is expected to increase more than threefold by 2050.
- Project Duration: The duration of the project will be three years.
- This FISONG has a budget of €2.5 million, distributed – as an indication at this stage – as follows:
- €2.3 million to fund field projects;
- €0.2 million to fund the cross-sectional capitalization mechanism, which will be supplied by a provider recruited following a call for tenders.
Geographical Scope
- The geographical scope of this FISONG is:
- Open to all AFD countries of intervention in the African continent, including Madagascar;
- Exclusively for urban and peri-urban projects.
- Single-country projects will be favored in order to simplify their implementation and facilitate capitalization. Multi-country projects may be selected, but justifications for this choice must be provided (regional approach, capitalization of experiences in various contexts, the possibility of south-south cooperation, etc.).
- For cross-sectional capitalization issues, the selected projects will have to be located in two different countries.
Eligibility Criteria
- Every NGO, whatever its nationality, is eligible for the FISONG. Any NGO wishing to submit a proposal can use partners in the target countries. Partnerships (groupings or consortia) are strongly encouraged within the framework of this FISONG, in particular between NGOs and social enterprises, other private service providers specialized in waste management, local authorities, or actors from the research field.
- NGOs must have at least three years experience of working in the target country or countries. If the lead NGO is unable to provide evidence of at least three years in the target country, the chosen partnership approach must provide clear evidence of the NGO’s local involvement through its partners. The aim is to guarantee knowledge of the local context, particularly in political, institutional, and sociopolitical terms. Understanding the local context will allow the NGOs to understand and integrate into the network of local players.
- NGOs will have to have proven experience of intervention on the given theme, as well as in the deployment of activities to vulnerable populations.
- NGOs and their partners, where appropriate, will have to demonstrate strong experience in waste prevention and/or management.
- The FISONG is aimed at NGOs with the capacity and tools needed to implement innovation processes and hold consultations with the AFD sectoral managers (problem identification, design, experimentation, evaluation, capitalization, distribution, scaling up, etc.) in their specialist areas.
- The NGOs and their partners must allocate appropriate teams based on their proposed methodologies. These teams will be under the responsibility of local mission managers.
For more information, visit https://www.afd.fr/en/financing-ngo-projects