Deadline: 7-Mar-22
The Sustainable Energy for Smallholder Farmers (SEFFA) project in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda is calling for proposals for innovations on renewable energy business cases in agriculture.
The SEFFA Innovation Fund aims to accelerate innovative business cases for renewable energy technologies for productive use of energy in the agricultural sector in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. The SEFFA Innovation Fund is managed by EnDev and co-financed by the IKEA Foundation.
The project “Sustainable Energy for Smallholder Farmers (SEFFA) in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda’’ addresses the lack of access to sustainable, affordable, and renewable energy technologies for Productive Use of Energy (PUE) along the agricultural sector. Therefore, the project promotes the distribution and use of solar energy and services focused on solar irrigation, solar cooling, and solar drying, to increase production, improve processing. This will reduce post-harvest losses for the smallholder farming households and the related agri-businesses in the horticultural and dairy value chains. The project was initiated by EnDev and is co−financed by the IKEA Foundation.
Thematic Focus
The SEFFA Innovation Fund aims to accelerate PUE business cases that are at a concept stage. The innovations must contribute to SEFFA objective of improving the productivity and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in the dairy and horticultural value chains. The fund will provide small grants on a competitive basis to support local, innovative PUE business models which have the potential to be scaled and are related to the following PUE technologies:
- Solar irrigation for horticulture and livestock
- Solar drying for horticulture
- Solar cooling for horticulture and dairy
- Renewable energy community hub
- Solar energy for value addition and processing in the horticulture and dairy value chains
Funding Information
The Innovation Fund will select around four successful applicants per country for grants of EUR 22.5000 per applicant to implement the proposed pilot project. Implementation may take up to 12 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are local or regional (East African) organisations including NGOs, private sector, knowledge organisations, etc. – youth groups and women led ventures are especially encouraged to apply.
- Organisations need to be legally registered in the targeted countries, with an active country presence (e.g. an office, ongoing activities in country), and at least one year of experience with renewable energy for agriculture or related areas.
- Organisations that already work with or are looking to work with the SEFFA project can also participate in the competition.
- Each application can only target one of the three countries.
- Organisations may apply with partners, but with a sole primary applicant.
- Co-funding and own financial contributions in the project formulation are encouraged but not compulsory.
- A maximum of one submission will be considered per applicant.
Deadlines
For more information, visit https://endev.info/calls/seffa-innovation-fund/