Deadline: 30-Sep-20
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for its Smart Communities Coalition Innovation Fund (SCCIF) that aims to bring private sector-led innovative solutions to displaced populations and crisis-affected host communities to develop service delivery, economically empower displaced populations and contribute to economic and social integration.
The fund is designed to address three strategic pillars to trigger a paradigm shift in humanitarian settings – energy, connectivity, and digital tools. The SCCIF seeks to advance and accelerate the model of public-private co-design and co-implementation of programs in the humanitarian context.
Managed by EnDev with funding from USAID, the SCCIF’s first window focuses on access to modern energy services, providing support to entrepreneurs, companies, social enterprises, microfinance institutions, NGOs and consortiums to expand their delivery chains and bring innovative solutions to displaced populations including refugee camps, settlements and host communities in refugee-hosting areas.
Funding Information
- A total fund structure of €360.000 has been established for disbursement to successful applicants.
- Each successful applicant will receive between €10,000 to €120,000, depending on the stated needs and business model.
Eligibility Criteria
- Refugee or host community entrepreneurs, private companies, social enterprises and microfinance institutions can apply. The condition for application is a legal registration document in either Kenya or Uganda. Teaming up with other actors in consortiums will most likely bring more successful and innovative proposals.
- NGOs, United Nations and intergovernmental organizations, local and national governmental agencies can all apply if they are part of a consortium with at least one of the eligible applicants. There are no limitations on the number of consortium members except that each needs a defined role.
- Eligible applications must involve electricity production, devices or services. Ultimate beneficiaries of improved electricity access are households, businesses or institutions. The following list provides an illustrative example of renewable electricity production devices or services:
- Solar Home Systems
- Mini grids powered by renewable energy sources
- Solar pumps
- Solar for refrigeration
- Energy kiosks
- Gasifiers, biogas digesters for electricity production
- E-Cooking, etc.
For more information, visit https://www.usaid.gov/powerafrica/sccif