Deadline: 30 April 2018
U.S. Embassy in Cameroon is seeking applications for its Special Self-Help Fund to provide small-scale assistance to Cameroonian communities as part of the U.S. Government’s commitment to support development activities in Cameroon.
Since 1983, the U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon has funded small community projects under the SSH program in all ten regions of Cameroon.
Project Categories
- Water Supply and Sanitation: Ensures broadly accessible, reliable and economically sustainable water and sanitation services to bolster healthy, secure, and prosperous communities.
- Safe Water Access: Water pumps and distribution systems, well drilling, bore holes, spring capping.
- Basic Sanitation: Toilets, sinks, etc. Innovative approaches to building demand for sanitation-related products and services are encouraged.
- Social Services
- Education and Training: Examples, construction and/or equipment of school rooms, vocational training workshops/centers.
- Health: Examples, construction and/or equipment of health facilities.
- Community Development: foot bridges, community centers, solar energy, etc.
- Income Generating Activities: food storage facilities, grinding mills, vocational training activities that produce employment and marketable skills.
- Environment/Agriculture: financial or technical support for reforestation, and soil conservation including post-conflict or post-disaster settings, waste management, biodiversity conservation, and community agricultural projects.
Activities
- Repair of existing facilities that are in poor shape as the result of neglect or lack of funds.
- Payment of recurring operating costs such as rent, salaries, administrative or operating costs, ongoing training/education needs, medications, fuel, animal feed, or seeds.
- Religious, political, or military activities, as well as those relating to police, prisons, or law enforcement.
- Revolving credit schemes.
- Office equipment and supplies such as computers, film projectors, stereos, pencils, paper, forms, folders, etc.
- Equipment or uniforms for national sport teams or national musical or dance groups.
- Land or buildings.
- Vehicles, luxury goods, gambling, or surveillance equipment.
- Abortion-related equipment and services.
- Pesticides, fungicides, or herbicides.
How to Apply
Applicants can submit their application via email at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit U.S. Embassy in Cameroon.