New Grant Opportunities for Organizations and Individuals in Nepal

[October 2024]

Explore exclusive funding opportunities tailored for individuals and organizations in Nepal. This curated list includes a variety of grants, fellowships designed to support and empower talented individuals and organizations across diverse fields.

Call for Proposals: Direct Aid Small Grants Program in Nepal
Deadline: 17-Nov-2024
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is accepting proposals for the Direct Aid Small Grants Program to work with local communities in developing countries on projects that reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development consistent with Australia’s national interest.

DAP projects cover a range of sectors such as education, health, water and sanitation, environmental protection, women’s empowerment and gender equality, supporting people with disabilities, economic livelihoods, food security and human rights.

It sits alongside Australia’s longer-term country and multilateral development strategies and with its wide geographical reach plays an important role in supporting local community efforts towards poverty reduction across the globe.

Principles

The program is founded on a set of principles which:
- advance developmental outcomes in countries eligible for Official Development Assistance (ODA) through projects primarily focused on practical and tangible results. This may include projects which support good governance, human rights and those with a strong advocacy component,
- support Australia’s wider foreign and trade policy interests and public diplomacy objectives, including promoting a distinctive and positive image of Australia, and
- allow for a wide geographic reach reflecting that Australia has global interests and that DAP provides an effective way to build relationships and maintain Australia’s profile.

Eligible Projects

This year they are seeking projects that address:
- human trafficking, modern slavery and forced labour;
- climate change, especially in the agriculture sector;
- entrepreneurship and trade facilitation, particularly in agribusiness and ICT.

Funding Information

There is no minimum amount that a single DAP project can receive but the maximum is $60,000 over the life of the project (dependent on the country).

Duration

Activities can run up to a maximum of two years.

Eligibility Criteria

Funding is available on a not-for-profit basis to community groups, NGOs and other entities engaged in development activities in countries that are eligible for ODA.

For more information, visit DFAT.

Call for Applications: CREEW Research Grant Program (Nepal)
Deadline: 5 December 2024
The Center of Research for Environment, Energy and Water (CREEW) is inviting applications for its Research Grant Program.

CREEW has initiated the Research Grant Program aimed at assisting students in the final year of their master’s program who are working on thesis proposals within the realms of water, environment, natural resources, or other fields relevant to CREEW.

This program serves a dual purpose: not only does it offer financial grants to students, but it also immerses them in comprehensive research guidance and mentoring initiative. Grant recipients will collaborate closely with CREEW’s team of technical experts to refine their research proposals. Furthermore, they will participate in a minimum of three research-sharing meetings during the grant duration.

Thematic Areas

Groundwater and Surface Water: Quantity and quality, pollution and treatment, demand and supply, conjunctive water use, snow and glacier, groundwater-surface water interactions, managed aquifer recharge, hydrogeology, groundwater potential zoning, groundwater exploration, groundwater induced land subsidence, groundwater vulnerability and risk mapping, water resource assessment and management, sustainable hydropower development, policy and practice and, regulation.
River Basin and Ecosystems: Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), hydrology, hydraulics, modeling, water-energy-food-nexus, watershed health, river basin management, river health and restoration, sustainable management of ecosystems and biodiversity, ecosystem-based management, land and soil management, policy and practice.
Integrated Waste and Resources Recovery: Waste types, generation and characteristics; 3R principle and practices, resource recovery from waste, waste treatment technologies, waste governance, waste management financing, waste and climate change, special waste management (healthcare, hazardous and e-waste management, fecal sludge management), waste to energy, waste burning, GHGs emissions, air pollution, circular economy, waste disposal and landfill engineering, life cycle assessment (LCA).
Climate Change and Resilience: Climate change impacts of various sectors, adaptation and mitigation; climate resilience, climate change modeling, climate finance, climate policy and practice, disaster risk management (DRM), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience, Clean Development Mechanisms (CDMs), EbA and IKT for climate change adaption.
Green Energy: Types of green energy: solar energy, wind energy, biomass, biogas, and hydroelectric energy; energy-mix, sustainable hydropower development, waste to energy, green economy, air pollution, carbon footprint.
Environmental Health and WASH: Water quality and household water treatment, WASH in schools, WASH + emergencies, WASH + maternal and child health, WASH + nutrition, menstrual hygiene, behavioral change, health risks (chemical and microbial), emerging pollutants, cross-border and transboundary pollution, environmental footprint.

Funding Information

The grant is capped at a maximum of NPR 50,000, with duration of six months.

Eligibility Criteria

Master’s student who has completed all the course requirements.
Master’s students who are developing their thesis proposal for submission to their departments at college university.
Thesis proposal must be on water resource environmental geo-technical engineering, environmental science, hydrology and meteorology, agriculture, forestry and other relevant fields.
Thesis proposal must include research topics related to Nepal.

Application Requirements

Cover letter (1 Page)
Recommendation letter from the thesis supervisor for the applicant with consent for applying the grant and, supervisor’s brief CV (1-2 pages). Supervisor should email the recommendation letter and brief CV to with subject line “CREEW Grant 2024 25 Recommendation and Consent Letter for Students Name”
Thesis proposal
Scanned academic mark sheets and their certificates only starting from 10+2, undergraduate and ongoing post-graduate levels
Student ID

For more information, visit CREEW.

Call for Proposals: Teach for Nepal Fellowship
Deadline: 31 December 2024
The Teach for Nepal is inviting applications for its fellowship program to offer a unique opportunity for you to grow as a leader while having a significant and immediate impact on education inequity in Nepal.

The Teach for Nepal Fellowship is a highly competitive, challenging, and rewarding leadership development program. It is an opportunity to make a real difference in one of the most important social issues of the time; education inequity in Nepal, while equipping you with valuable skills that will enable you to launch a career in any field. Over the two years, you will hone your skills in a variety of areas including communication, planning, project management and implementation, and teamwork. As a classroom instructor, you are uniquely poised to set your students on new paths and to lead them to success both in and out of school. And as a member of the movement, you join a network of leaders and change agents both locally and internationally. You will leave Teach for Nepal prepared and confident to meet whatever comes next.

Benefits

Teach for Nepal Fellowship is not a voluntary leadership program, rather this is an opportunity with a paid stipend. Fellows receive a monthly stipend. In most communities, they receive accommodation support as well.
They are looking for people who may never before have considered teaching as part of their career path. To ensure success in the classroom, the program is developing an intensive six-week residential training that will cover lesson planning, classroom management, community relations, and much more. In addition to six weeks of pre-service training, their Fellows will receive ongoing support and regular training during the two years of Fellowship.

Funding Information

Teach for Nepal Fellows will be paid on a monthly stipend basis during the entire two years of Fellowship. The fellows have been paid a stipend of Rs. 22,500 per month during the two years of Fellowship.

Eligibility Criteria

If you are a Nepali citizen, or NRN and have completed a Bachelor’s degree, you are eligible to apply for the Fellowship. They are looking especially for people who have demonstrated leadership potential, interest in social change, and growth mindset with content mastery in science, math, computer and English.
Fellow is the term they have chosen to call the college graduates who will be trained and working as teachers. They are members of the Corps, or group of leaders working to address educational injustice.

For more information, visit Teach for Nepal.

Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program 2025-26 (Nepal)
Deadline: 11 November 2024
Applications are open for the Fulbright Nepal Visiting Scholar Program to provide thousands of scholars with the opportunity to develop collaborative research and/or artistic relationships with U.S. scholars or artists.

For post-doctoral researchers, through doing research, guest lecturing, and pursuing other scholarly interests in a completely different environment, scholars return home personally invigorated and professionally stimulated. For senior artists, the grant is an opportunity to expand professional and artistic networks, or to gain skills and expertise in a particular aspect of artistic practice and to share with American colleagues and communities the rich and diverse cultural and artistic heritage and contemporary practice of art in Nepal.

Benefits

The selected scholar will receive:
- J-1 visa sponsorship for scholar and dependents
- J-1 visa compliant health benefits
- Round trip international travel to the U.S., 1 dependent’s flight coverage
- A stipend to cover living expenses, settling in, dependent’s allowance and professional development allowances

Eligibility Criteria

Nepalese Citizenship
For researchers: Doctoral degree (for researchers). For post-doctoral researchers, only those scholars who received their doctorate between 2010-2020 are eligible to apply
For artists: Or equivalent professional training or experience at the time of application for professionals and artists outside academia, recognized professional standing and substantial professional accomplishment is expected
A minimum of three years’ post-doctoral professional experience in Nepal for post-doctoral researchers; a minimum of five years of experience in the area is required for artists.
A detailed statement of proposed activity for research and/or an artistic project at a U.S. institution- The proposed project should contribute to the development of knowledge in your field and must be feasible within a maximum period of nine months in the U.S. For post-doctoral researchers, the subject of the proposed research must relate directly to Nepal. For artists, the proposed project must have relevance to Nepal
Proficiency in English appropriate to the proposed project
Sound physical and mental health- Those selected for a Fulbright grant are required to submit a Medical History and Examination Report before their grants can be finalized

Ineligibility Criteria

Persons holding citizenship or permanent residency in both Nepal and the U.S.
Scholars who received their doctorate before 2010 and after 2020
Scholars with less than three years of post-doctoral professional experience in Nepal for post-doctoral researchers; artists with less than five years of experience in Nepal and abroad
Scholars/artists who have previously held a J visa in the professor or research scholar category are not eligible for sponsorship again in those two categories for a period of 24 months following the program sponsorship end date
Local employees and their immediate families (i.e. spouses and dependent children) of U.S. missions abroad who work for the U.S. Department of State are ineligible for grants during the period of their employment and for one year following the termination of employment; members and staff of the Nepal Fulbright Commission, for a period ending one year after the termination of such employment.

For more information, visit The United States Educational Foundation in Nepal.

CFPs: Gender Equality Program to strengthen the capacity of Women in Nepal
Deadline: 05-Nov-2024
The UN Women is seeking proposals to strengthen the capacity of women and excluded group to influence decision-making and demand accountability and transparency for Gender Equality.

Objectives

The primary aim of this intervention is to provide the necessary skills to women and excluded groups to enhance community-based gender responsive social accountability at the local level through tools like the right to information, citizen report cards, public hearings, and social audits.
Specific Objective
- To enhance capacities women and excluded groups to influence decision-making, engage in evidence-based civic dialogue/action and demand accountability and transparency for GEWE.
  - The aim of this objective is to equip women and excluded groups with the skills needed to enhance social accountability at the local level. This will be achieved through mechanisms such as the right to information, citizens’ report cards, and social audits.

Funding Information

The estimated budget range for this proposal is approx. NPR 15,550,000.00 – NPR 16,000,000.00.

Timeframe

December 2024 – August 2026 (twenty months programme period.) The actual project start date will be based on project agreement date and may vary.

Methodologies/Approaches

The RP will develop an implementation plan, monitoring and learning plan with clear annual milestones. The RP are encouraged to propose innovative ideas, approaches and strategies in the above proposed three intervention areas based on their past experiences and lesson learned. The additional methodology to be adopted by the partner agencies include:
Use pre‐test and post‐test questionnaires to analyse participant’s knowledge and understanding before and after the training.
Promote local resource person/experts to deliver training packages as and where applicable. Linkages can be made to resource person/experts developed by other ongoing interventions.
Use participatory assessment methodologies and reflective dialogue tools across all assessments and consultations.

Guiding Principles

Proposal development and implementation of the outlined activities will be guided by the following principles:
- Result based programming and management
- Cultural diversity, social inclusion and gender sensitivity
- Human rights-based approach
- Leave no one behind (LNOB)
- Confidentiality
- Do no harm
- Impartiality

Eligibility Criteria

Operating for at least five years with demonstrated programmatic experience related to institutional strengthening of women’s rights organizations and networks, advocacy, or advancing efforts to social accountability
Experience working with diverse partners, including marginalized groups and multiple stakeholders; and existing relationships with feminist organizations, allies, networks, and other relevant stakeholders and with experience of implementing Social Accountability tools.
Be a women’s rights organization, network, or coalition organization, with organizations led by women in all their diversity considered as an asset.
Proven technical competencies in the application of human rights-based and feminist approaches and social accountability tools to advance gender equality and for ensuring their voices and needs as rightsholders.

For more information, visit UN Women.

Call for Proposals: Institutional Capacity Building Training for Women’s Groups in Nepal
Deadline: 31-Oct-2024
The World Wide Fund for Nature is accepting proposals for the Institutional Capacity Building Training for Women’s Groups.

Objective

The overall aim of the consultancy is to institutionally strengthen women’s groups by building capacities on group management, creating a 5-year action plan, organizing events and leadership training for active participation in conservation work in the region. The objective of the consultancy is to:
- Planning, implementing, and reporting of building capacity of women’s groups for institutional development of the group, in SPNP on financial literacy, group management, including holding regular meetings, taking meeting minutes, constitution clarity, roles and responsibilities clarity, reporting and monitoring mechanisms, among others.
- Facilitate discussions with women’s groups on creating a 5-year action plan for each group including objective, activities, budgeting, reporting and monitoring with indicators, conducted solely by a group or combined, in coordination with SPNP and WWF Nepal.
- Facilitate in identifying and nominating a group leader from each women’s group committee members as a “change agent” to facilitate the coordination and activity implementation, including income generation activities, saving and credit practices.

Scope of Work

Institutional Capacity Building Training for Women’s Groups
- Prepare capacity building timeframe, detailed agenda, presentation, and necessary resource materials and work closely with WWF-SPNP.
- Prepare printed content for distribution to women’s group members for implementing individual group activities.
- Conduct training on financial literacy, group management, saving and credit practices, including holding regular meetings, taking meeting minutes, constitution clarity, roles and responsibilities clarity, SWOT analysis, reporting and monitoring mechanisms, among others.
- Conduct pre and post training survey.
Facilitate formation of a 5-year action plan
- Prepare agenda, presentation, and content for facilitating discussion with women’s groups to prepare the action plan.
- Prepare planning format and hold pre-discussions with women’s groups to identify and plan conservation events and income generation activities.
- Prepare format for a 5-year action plan aligning with the women’s groups’ constitution, including objectives, activities, timeframe, roles and responsibilities, tentative budget, and monitoring indicators.
Assessment and reporting
- Prepare reports of the entire activity, including planning processes, capacity building training for institutional development of women’s group, facilitation provided to women’s groups in organizing conservation events, creating an action plan as well as learnings and adaptations made. Recommend necessary activities to be incorporated in SPNP-WWF supported activity for women engagement, focusing on sustainable engagement of the women’s groups

Deliverables

Agenda for capacity building for women’s group, including discussion facilitation for formation of a 5-year action plan and conservation event
Presentations for capacity building of women, including event management
Designed format for action plan, conservation event plan and completed formats with event plans
Participant lists, photos/videos for all events and sessions conducted and/or facilitated with women’s group
Financial report along with expenditure evidence as needed
Technical report on the overall agreement.

Expected Output

Women’s group leaders have clarity of their roles and responsibilities, better understanding and use of financial skills, know when to hold meetings and keep meeting minutes, learning importance of women’s groups exemplifying that women groups are active in Mugu.
The women’s groups have created and have a comprehensive understanding of 5-year action plan.
Women’s groups have clarity over conservation events to be organized and have successfully organized an event or collaborative to conduct the event.
A leader from each women’s group is nominated, and a networking forum is created.
A comprehensive assessment of the status of women’s group following monitoring protocols.

For more information, visit World Wide Fund for Nature.

South Asia Regional Energy Partnership Fund Program
Deadline: 31-Oct-2024
The South Asia Regional Energy Partnership (SAREP) is the flagship regional energy program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission to India (USAID/I).

This five- year initiative (2021-26) will improve access to affordable, secure, reliable, and sustainable energy in six countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka— in line with these countries’ climate and clean energy priorities.

The program is a key activity under the U.S. Government’s Clean Edge Asia -Enhancing Development and Growth through Energy initiative and aligns with USAID’s climate change priorities to advance equitable and ambitious actions to confront the climate crisis.

The program helps the United States Government’s Indo-Pacific Vision and facilitates collaboration among the six countries in South Asia to accelerate the transition to clean energy, mitigate climate change, and promote energy security.

SAREP seeks to encourage targeted action and drive systems change by engaging policymakers, regulators, utilities, private sector, investors, and think tanks among others, through four key technical objectives and three cross-cutting themes:
- Objective 1: Enhanced regional energy markets and integration:
  - SAREP will facilitate development of regional power markets, improve coordination and planning, strengthen national and regional institutions, drive consensus on power trade, and institutionalize a supporting framework and mechanisms. The expected outcome is increased cross-border electricity trade in the region by transitioning to tri- and multilateral power trade and a regionally integrated grid that will lead to an energy-secure South Asia.
- Objective 2: Increased deployment of advanced energy solutions and systems:
  - SAREP will enhance and accelerate deployment of clean energy technologies for transition to net zero emissions by helping partner countries reach near-term climate goals and avoid locking in longer term emissions trajectories. These technologies include renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy storage, off-grid, behind-the-meter technologies and smart appliances, electric vehicles, green hydrogen, and solutions and tools to support renewable energy integration including market products among others.
- Objective 3: High-performing modern utilities:
  - SAREP will enable modernization of transmission, system operation and distribution utilities in the region to improve their technical, financial, and operational performance, grid resilience, enhance customer service, and promote adaptability to new technical advancements. The expected outcome is modern, financially viable utilities that enable clean energy transition and efficient energy markets.
- Objective 4: Transparent, best-value procurement and private sector investment mobilized:
  - SAREP will facilitate increased private sector investments and enhance domestic and international finance for clean energy deployment. SAREP will also enable improved procurement processes and governance, adoption of best-value procurement practices, promote PPP models, and improve bankability of clean energy projects.
SAREP’s activities and outcomes also support and contribute to the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP) and the Climate Action and Finance Mobilization Dialogue (CAFMD) under the recently established U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership. Through this collaboration, India and the U.S. aim to demonstrate swift climate action that is inclusive, resilient, and based on national and regional priorities. Countries in the region will also benefit from this collaboration through sharing of the learnings, best practices, lessons, and templates from previous experience which can be customized and replicated in other South Asian countries.
Private sector engagement: SAREP will enable and enhance private sector participation, leverage and mobilize resources, strengthen the enabling environment, increase awareness and understanding of solutions to enhance private sector finances, and promote replication of successful approaches.
Gender diversity and inclusion: SAREP will increase awareness and enable inclusion considerations in the energy sector, particularly mainstreaming gender in the energy sector. It will also engage and promote women leaders and entrepreneurs across the region.
Pollution mitigation: SAREP will advance clean energy deployment to reduce air pollution associated with the energy sector.

Funding Information

Type of Grant Awards:
- The following type of grants may be awarded by SAREP:
  - Fixed amount awards (FAAs): Up to $250,000 for non-U.S. organizations and not to exceed $250,000 for U.S. organizations
  - Simplified Cost-reimbursement Grant (SIG): Up to $250,000 for non-U.S. organizations and not to exceed $250,000 for U.S. organizations
  - Standard cost-reimbursement grants (STGs): Up to $500,000 for non-U.S. Organizations and not to exceed $250,000 for U.S. organizations
  - In-Kind Grants: Up to $500,000

Outcomes

SAREP aims to achieve the following outcomes (Expected Results) over the duration of the Program.
Expected Results
- Leverage: $7 billion in investment in power infrastructure
- Deploy: 5000MW of clean energy
- Save over 435 GWh through energy efficiency
- Facilitate 4TWh worth of cross border trade
- Strengthen capacity of 10,000+ professionals and technicians
These outcomes will be achieved through a combination of activities delivered through:
SAREP Task Order being implemented by RTI International and its consortium members and subcontractors.
SAREP Partnership Fund i.e., grants administered by RTI International, as part of the SAREP Task Order.

Eligible Activities

To achieve the results outlined under the four technical objectives, the SAREP Partnership Fund will support the types of activities illustrated below:
- Pilot demonstrations
- Incubation support
- Feasibility studies, detailed project reports, and market assessments
- Knowledge management and dissemination
- Policy advocacy and consensus building
- Knowledge sharing, exchange, and institutional capacity development
- Developing business models and innovative solutions, and structuring of innovative financial transactions to enable clean energy transition
- Design and deploy new decision-making tools

Eligibility Criteria

The SAREP Partnership Fund grants can be provided to private sector / for-profit entities; not for-profit organizations; nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); civil society organizations; business service organizations; industry, trade, or other private sector associations; educational/training or academic institutions; and think tank/research entities which are eligible to receive foreign funded grants in accordance with applicable local regulations. Government and or quasi-government (parastatal entities) are not eligible to apply for and receive grants funded under this APS.
All applicants will be bound by various USAID regulations as relevant and set forth in the US Code of Federal Regulations and Automated Directive System.
Grantees should be registered in any of the countries not expressly prohibited in ADS 310 and should be legally authorized to operate in the country/ies where performance of grant activities are proposed.
To be eligible for funding grantees must:
- Have no real or apparent conflicts of interest that could jeopardize the impartiality of the selection process or arise and affect project implementation.
- Applicants will be required to proactively declare any such potential conflicts so that they are mitigated in advance of applicant consideration. Any such conflicts can be personal, business, or finance related.

Ineligibility Criteria

The following types of applicants will not be eligible for receiving grants from SAREP:
- Any Public International Organization, unless approved by the USAID/India Mission Director
- Government or quasi-Government (parastatal entities)
- Any proposed 2 CFR 200.1 contractor that is registered in a country listed under USAID’s list of Prohibited Source Countries (as per ADS Reference 310mac)
- Entities that have a previous record of misusing U.S. Government funds
- Political parties or partisan political organizations
- Organizations or groups that promote any illegal activities

For more information, visit USAID.

CFPs: Local Transition and Media Projects 2025
Deadline: 3 November 2024
The Embassy of the Czech Republic in New Delhi has announced a call for proposals for the Local Transition and Media Projects 2025.

The LTP´s fall under the Transition Promotion Program, which is the framework for the support of human rights and democracy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. The program aims to support non-governmental organizations that promote human rights, democracy and free media in their countries.

Thematic Priorities

Indivisibility of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights is the core principle of the Czech Republic’s approach to human rights and democracy promotion. All these rights are essential to a life of dignity and the denial of any of them impairs human dignity. The human rights and transition promotion policy is committed to removing historical, social, cultural, religious and ideological obstacles to equality (such as those affecting the situation of women and various vulnerable groups). Equality and non discrimination are among the most important cross-cutting principles and priorities of Czech foreign policy. While advocating all universal internationally recognized human rights, the Czech Republic focuses mainly (but not exclusively) on:
- Supporting international human rights mechanisms and human rights mainstreaming;
- Supporting civil society, including human rights defenders;
- Promoting the freedom of expression and information, including the freedom of the media;
- Promoting an equal and full political and public participation;
- Supporting institution-building in the area of the rule of law;
- Promoting equality and non-discrimination;
- Promoting human rights in employment and in the environmental context.

Funding Information

The financial contribution for an LTP is from 100,000 CZK to 500,000 CZK. Co-financing from other sources is arbitrary and desirable.
The project must be implemented from the date of the signing of the contract (about March 2025) to end of September 2025.
The project has to be effective and economical, for which reason all bills/accounts must be documented.
Each organization may apply for a contribution of one project.

Geographical Locations

The human rights and transition promotion policy is aligned with the geographic priorities of Czech foreign policy. In addition, in the context of its action in multilateral for a the Czech Republic focuses also on countries targeted by country specific resolutions of the UN Human Rights Council and countries for which the Council appoints Special Rapporteurs with country mandates. The bilateral priorities are detailed in the respective regional foreign policy strategies. The national Transition Promotion Programme offers the Czech experience primarily to countries close to the Czech Republic in cultural, historic, geographic or other terms. Accordingly, it focuses on partners in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans; projects implemented in other regions may be included in justified cases. The Czech Republic will revise the list of priority countries for the national Transition Promotion Programme on an annual basis, if the situation so requires.

Eligibility Criteria

The financial contribution is intended for projects implemented in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Implementer of the LTP is a local subject with legal subjectivity in the country of the project implementation.
Implementer must be eligible to sign contract with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic that establishes jurisdiction of Czech laws and Czech jurisdiction over the contract.
An LTP must be implemented by a non-governmental subject. A contribution cannot be claimed by a political party or state institution.
The subject must be eligible to receive foreign funding, f.e. in case of India to have a valid FCRA licence.

Evaluation Criteria