Bringing the Latest Opportunities to Africans
Grand Challenges Africa Round 13 Request for Proposals (Up to 350,000 Seed Grants)
Deadline: 16-Dec-22
The Science for Africa Foundation requests proposals for Strengthening the Contraceptive R&D Ecosystem in Africa: Accelerating Innovations in Non-Hormonal Contraception for Women.
Funding Information
- This Grand Challenges request for proposals intends to fund awards of up to USD $350,000 and for up to 2 years, based on the scope of the proposed project.
UM6P and IFA launch the Africa Agtech Startup Showcase (€20,000 prize)
Deadline Date: 30-Nov-2022
Innovation is positioning African agricultural systems for a productive and sustainable future. In light of this transformation process, the International Fertilizer Association (IFA) and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) have launched the Africa Agtech Startup Showcase.
Funding Information
The largest gathering of the fertilizer industry, and the winning startup will receive a €20,000 prize.
Eligibility Criteria
- This international contest is open to entrepreneurs offering innovative responses to the challenges facing African agriculture to showcase their solutions to the plant nutrition industry. The IFA and UM6P judges will evaluate applications based on the competition criteria including impact, innovation and applicability to African smallholder farmers. Final selection will take place in May 2023 at the IFA Annual Conference.
- UM6P prioritizes applied research and innovation relevant to Morocco and Africa by focusing on topics such as industrialization, food security, sustainable development, mining, behavioural and social sciences. It federates a number of schools and research institutes, covering science and technology (Agriculture, mining, energy, medical, chemistry, Computer Science…), Social Sciences and Business Management.
Open Call to Support for the Creation, Dissemination and Operators of Civil Society in Africa
Deadline: 19-Nov-22
The Institut français is accepting applications to Support for the Creation, Dissemination and Operators of Civil Society in Africa
This project aid system aims to support artists and cultural operators from civil society in Africa, as well as the French cultural network, by supporting the creation and dissemination of works, in particular with support for festivals. and major events, exhibitions or music and performing arts tours.
African Peacebuilding Network: Individual Research Fellowships
Deadline: 10-Feb-23
The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites research fellowship applications from African researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners working on conflict and peacebuilding issues at universities and research institutions; or regional, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies or organizations based in Africa.
Funding Information
Up to eighteen (18) individual fellowships of a maximum of $15,000 each will be awarded.
Fellowships are awarded on a competitive, peer-reviewed basis and are intended to support six months of field-based research, from June 2022 to December 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- Women are strongly encouraged to apply.
- All applicants must be African citizens currently residing in an African country. This competition is open to African academics, as well as policy analysts and practitioners.
- Applicants who are academics must hold a faculty or research position at an African university or research organization, and have a PhD obtained no earlier than January 2012.
- Applicants who are policy analysts or practitioners must be based in Africa at a regional or sub-regional institution; a government agency; or a nongovernmental, media, or civil society organization, and have at least a master’s degree obtained before January 2017, with at least five years of proven research and work experience in peacebuilding-related activities on the continent.
McKinsey’s Forward Program in Africa: Are you Ready to advance your Career?
Deadline: 28-Nov-22
Are you ready to advance your career? Forward is a free, six-month online learning program offered by McKinsey to equip young talent with must-have practical skills to succeed in the future of work.
Eligibility Criteria
- To access Forward, you must meet the following criteria:
- currently reside on the African continent (all countries)
- currently employed, self-employed, or in between jobs
- have no more than five years of formal work experience
- have completed post-secondary education (for example: diploma, associate degree, undergraduate degree)
- have a good command of the English language, as the program will be conducted in English.
EIT Climate-KIC Adaptation and Resilience ClimAccelerator in Africa
Deadline: 26-Nov-22
Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland (‘Irish Aid’), the A&R ClimAccelerator is seeking applications from solutions that are addressing the impacts of climate change and building the resilience of communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Business must be incorporated in an African country.
- Should be incorporated for 5 years or less.
- For-profit entity.
- Adaptation and resilience solution.
Africa Regional Services Paris Annual Program Statement: ARS Speaker Program
Deadline: 30-Sep-23
The Africa Regional Services based in Paris (ARS) of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs, Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs announces an open competition for U.S. citizen individuals to submit a statement of interest (SOI) to be considered for a small grant as a guest speaker, artist, STEAM expert, or athlete/coach to conduct outreach activities that enhance the understanding of the United States in sub–Saharan Africa.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants
- American citizen individuals who can lead programs within their area of expertise in French, Portuguese, English or Spanish based in the U.S., Africa, Brazil and Europe
- Proof of citizenship by U.S. passport; U.S. green card holders if part of a performing artist group For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.
- Cost Sharing or Matching
- Cost sharing is not required.
- Other Eligibility Requirements
- Applicants may submit one SOI.
- Individuals are required to have a Social Security Number in order to comply with Internal Revenue Services reporting requirements.
IRL Fund for Africa: Grants available range from $15,000 to $50,000 USD
Deadline: 30-Nov-22
The Mozilla has launched the In Real Life (IRL) Fund to support movement building efforts contributing to the development, utility and governance of technologies because of the impact each has on issues of social justice, both on and offline.
The IRL Fund supports initiatives, projects and strategies led by African organizations that contribute towards a healthy internet. Specifically, they seek ideas that strengthen digital and human rights and impact communities “In Real Life”. This is a new, exploratory grantmaking mechanism intended to build a cohort of partners working on initiatives that address real challenges in the African continent.
Medical Research Foundation Grant Program for Researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Deadline: 30-Nov-22
Applications are welcomed from mid-career researchers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) who are making the transition to research independence and wish to develop collaborations with researchers based at a UK research organisation.
Funding Information
- Applicants may apply for funding for a visit to a UK research organisation for between one to three months.
- Applicants may apply for up to £5,000 for one month in the UK, £9,000 for two months in the UK and a maximum of £13,000 for three months in the UK to support travel, visas, subsistence and research consumables during the applicant’s stay at the UK research organisation.
- The Foundation is committed to awarding between three to six Meade Collaborative Travel Grants per year, depending on the length of the visits. This competition will run once per year.
Call for Proposals: Climate Innovations and Green Agricultural Entrepreneurship in West Africa
Deadline: 15-Jan-23
Within the context of the NEXUS project, the Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD), a subsidiary body of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), in partnership with the OIF Representation for West Africa (REPAO), and with the support of the Government of Quebec, is launching a call for proposals on Climate Innovations and Green Agricultural Entrepreneurship in West Africa.
Funding Information
- The call for proposals, with a total budget of 400,000 euros, will provide four grants of between 75,000 and 100,000 euros to eligible non-profit organizations established in West Africa, each to implement a project lasting 24 months.
Primate Conservation, Incorporated Grant Program: You can apply for up to $5,000 funds
Deadline: 1-Feb-23
The Primate Conservation, Incorporated is seeking applications for its grant Program.
Funding Information
Grants have averaged approximately $2,500, with a maximum grant of $5,000. They do not support conferences, travel to scientific meetings, legal actions, tuitions or salaries at institutions, and overhead costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Primate Conservation, Inc. will grant seed monies or provide matching grants for graduate students, qualified conservationists and primatologists to study rare and endangered primates and their conservation in their natural habitat
- Proposals are evaluated on competitive basis. Applications are screened by outside reviewers and the Board of Directors of PCI. All appropriate projects will be considered, but the regions of current interest are Asia and West Africa.
Acumen Academy East Africa Fellowship: Calling Social Innovators working to tackle Poverty and Injustice
Deadline: 28-Nov-22
The Acumen Academy is seeking applications for its East Africa Fellowship to develop a community of leaders who challenge the status quo, work across lines of difference and inspire their communities to believe in a brighter future.
Eligibility Criteria
- Who Becomes a Fellow And What Qualifies Them?
- Are ready and willing to undergo an intensive personal and professional leadership journey.
- Demonstrate a long-term commitment to and reside in one of the above East African countries.
- Are leading, or are an integral part of building, an initiative that exists to eradicate poverty or injustice.
- Are extraordinary leaders who dare to embrace the difficult journey of social change and espouse the above Acumen values.
- Are typically on one of the following trajectories: entrepreneur, intrapreneur, or an organisational builder whether for-profit, nonprofit, or in government.
- They consider applications from citizens of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi, and South Sudan. They will, on an exceptional basis, consider applicants who demonstrate a concrete connection to the region (ie. long-term employment, residency, the focus of the social change project).
- Each cohort of Acumen Fellows must be comprised of individuals who have not previously taken part in an Acumen Fellowship. This is specific to Acumen’s programs; candidates who have participated in other fellowships or leadership programs, or who have taken Acumen Academy courses, are welcome to apply.
- All seminars and training are conducted in English. Conversational proficiency in English is a requirement to ensure Fellows are able to give and get the most from this experience.
- There are no specific academic prerequisites.
- There is neither a minimum age requirement nor a maximum age cut off.
YALI RLC West Africa Emerging Leaders Program: Civil Society Management | Business and Entrepreneurship
Deadline: 11-Dec-22
The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Regional Leadership Center (RLC) is inviting applications for the West Africa Emerging Leaders Program.
Eligibility Criteria
- Competition for the YALI Regional Leadership Center West Africa is merit-based and open to young West African leaders who meet the following criteria:
- Are 18 to 35 years of age at the time of application submission,
- Are citizens and residents of one of the following countries: Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Burkina Faso.
- Are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S.
- Are eligible to receive any necessary visa to Ghana, and
- Are proficient in reading, writing, listening and speaking English.
GrowthAfrica Accelerator Open for 2023 Cohort Applications
Deadline: Ongoing
Are you an ambitious and committed entrepreneur from Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia or Ghana with the potential to grow and create impact through their businesses? Then this Accelerator program is for you.
Sectors
GrowthAfrica is open to all sectors but have a soft spot for:
- Agribusiness.
- Education.
- IT/mobile solutions/Tech enabled businesses.
- Financial services and Fintech.
Renewable energy. - Water & sanitation.
- Health.
- Manufacturing/processing.
- Retail/e-commerce.
Eligibility Criteria
- For profit, post revenue business.
- Full time and dedicated core team.
- Existed for 2 years or more.
- Dedicated full time founding team.
- Turnover of USD 50,000 plus.
- Open to raising external investment.
Apply for Scale Accelerator: Women’s Empowerment Southern Africa
Deadline: 12-Dec-2022
Is your organisation working in Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, or Zimbabwe? Do you have a programme, intervention, or service focused on issues related to women’s empowerment? Would you like to develop the skills and knowledge to create the biggest impact for your beneficiaries? If yes, then apply for Scale Accelerator: Women’s Empowerment, a fully-funded consultancy programme for ambitious, locally-led NGOs in Southern Africa working on issues related to women’s empowerment who want to scale up their impact and take their vital work to more people, in more places.
Who it’s For?
- The programme is specifically aimed at locally-led NGOs and coalitions of organisations working in Southern Africa – particularly Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe – which are delivering solutions to address issues around women’s empowerment.
- They define women’s empowerment solutions as those that support women and girls to enhance their power, voice, skills and opportunities in the economy, at home, and in their community.
- NGOs addressing issues related to the economic, cultural, and social empowerment of women are eligible to apply. Examples include, but are not limited to: financial inclusion, business/enterprise skills, sustainable livelihoods, women and girls education, political participation, violence against women and girls, and more.
- Organisations do not need to be led by women and solutions that work with both men and women to challenge attitudes and behaviours are eligible to apply.
CFPs to Promote & Accelerate Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in Tanzania
Deadline: 30-Nov-22
UN Women seeks a partnership with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) with a track record in human and women’s rights and gender equality, and community and grassroots sensitization, especially through various community engagement approaches, to implement a set of interventions in a joint manner with other UN Agencies in Dodoma.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be 120,000.00 – 150,000.00 USD.
Duration: A term of two-years with the starting date in January 2023 and completion of services in December 2024.
Target Beneficiaries
- The programme targets 3500 people as direct beneficiaries and 14000 as indirect beneficiaries, including rural women, men and youth beneficiaries in sunflower, maize, beans, sorghum, orange fleshed sweet potatoes, and horticulture value chains in Dodoma.
UN Women Call for Proposals in Tanzania
Deadline: 30-Nov-22
UN Women seeks a partnership with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) with a track record in human and women’s rights and gender equality, and community and grassroots sensitization, especially through various community engagement approaches, to implement a set of interventions in a joint manner with other UN Agencies in Singida Region.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be 120,000.00 – 150,000.00.
Duration: A term of two-years with the starting date in January 2023 and completion of services in December 2024.
Target Beneficiaries
- The programme targets 3500 people as direct beneficiaries and 14000 as indirect beneficiaries, including rural women, men and youth beneficiaries in sunflower, maize, beans, sorghum, orange fleshed sweet potatoes, and horticulture value chains in Singida.
Call for Proposals: Grassroots Innovators in South Africa
Deadline: 21-Nov-22
The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) is calling for applications from grassroots innovators looking for funding, technical assistance and support for developing a new product or process up to prototype and proof of concept stage.
Support Package on Offer
- Intellectual Property registration.
- Industry compliance and certification.
- Product and technical development expertise, design prototyping infrastructure & hard/software materials.
- Production of a prototype.
- Business development training and support.
- Networking, mentorship and market access activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- South African citizens of any age (ID copy required).
- Individuals residing in the following local municipalities: Umdoni, uMzumbe, Ray Nkonyeni and Umuziwabantu (proof of residence required).
- Individual (or representing a team) with an innovative solution that solves a clear social problem.
- Individuals must meet the criteria of a grassroots innovator.
- Have full ownership of the Intellectual Property and rights to the proposed solution.
- Applicants who do not have ready access to innovation development support, infrastructure, funding or training.
- Is willing to commit time to the programme activities for a maximum period of 24 months.
Call for Applications: Media Workshop on Covering South Africa’s Net Zero Transition
Deadline: 27-Nov-22
Internews’ Earth Journalism Network invites journalists from South Africa to apply for a media workshop on covering pathways to Net Zero, to be held in Johannesburg from January 30-February 1, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- The workshop is open to journalists from South Africa.
- Self-motivated journalists interested in covering the transition to Net Zero are invited to apply. They are especially eager to hear from journalists reporting on business, finance and tech perspectives, or those closely covering the country’s emission-reduction policies.
- They welcome applications from journalists from print, television, online and/or radio, with a demonstrated track record of producing incisive, in-depth stories.
- Please note:
- Selected participants must commit to attending all three days of the workshop from January 30 to February 1, 2023.
- EJN and their partners and donors have the right to edit, publish, broadcast and distribute any stories produced as a result of journalists’ participation in the workshop, once they have been published or broadcast in the original media outlet.
2023 National Arts Festival Curated Programme (South Africa)
Deadline: 21-Nov-22
The National Arts Festival (NAF) Curated Programme is now open for applications.
Duration: The 2023 NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL will run from 22 June to 02 July 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Artist across all genres from South Africa and beyond are invited to submit their proposals.
Green Tourism Incentive Programme in South Africa
Deadline: 28-Feb-23
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is seeking applications for Green Tourism Incentive Programme (“GTIP”) with a key objective of encouraging and assisting privately-owned tourism enterprises to adopt responsible tourism practices through installing solutions for the sustainable management and usage of electricity and water resources.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility Criteria: application for Energy and Water Efficiency Audit (Phase 1)
- Be an existing or a new privately-owned tourism-specific establishment (accommodation, facilities and attractions) that provide services to tourists as its direct clients. Suppliers and intermediaries are not eligible;
- New establishments to be at least at advanced stages of development where delay and completion risk is minimal (minimum requirements include a detailed business plan that is fully funded, an implementation plan – completion date of the projects should not be longer than 9 months from the date of applying for funding, approved building plans and relevant clearance certificates may be required, where applicable);
- Be an Exempt Micro Enterprise or a Qualifying Small Enterprises in line with the size categorization of the Tourism Broad-Based
- Black Economic Empowerment Scorecard as follows:
- Enterprise size category
- Exempt Micro Enterprises (EMEs)
- Qualifying Small Enterprises (QSEs).
- Annual turnover
- Total annual revenue below R5 million
- Total annual revenue between R5 million and R45 million.
- Must commit to a resource efficiency audit or review of an existing audit by an assessor appointed by the GTIP;
Must provide 12 months historic energy and/or water consumption data (in the form of utility bills) and occupancy records for the purposes of conducting the resource efficiency audit; - Must commit to obtaining quotations from at least three potential service providers/installers that meet the requirements of the GTIP for the identified energy and water efficiency solutions identified during the audit process;
- All applicants are required to complete an application form with the required documentation (including business registration documents; valid tax compliance PIN and latest audited or reviewed annual financial statements) in order to be allocated an assessor who will conduct an energy and water efficiency audit.
- Qualifying Criteria application for Funding (Phase 2)
- Eligible applicants (having completed Phase 1) are required to demonstrate economic viability to be considered for funding.
Requirements application for funding - To apply for grant funding, all applicants should meet the following criteria:
In the case of accommodation and conference venues, an official star grading by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA) is required. Significant upfront discounts on grading fees are offered by TGCSA through the Tourism Grading Support Programme incentive. - Where required, new establishments must commit to obtaining an official star grading by TGCSA no longer than 3 months from completion of the development;
- All applicants are required to complete an application form for funding, and submit the most recent supporting documentation (including 2 years latest audited or reviewed annual financial statements; management accounts (not older than 3 months); 3 years budget/forecast in the format contained in the application form; a Tourism B-BBEE certificate or sworn affidavit in line with the Amended Tourism B-BBEE Sector Code; FICA documentation; resource efficiency audit report; copy of a valid lease agreement of no less than 5 years or proof of ownership of the property); quotations and potential service providers/installers details as per the energy and water efficiency audit report and service provider/installer requirements.
- Qualifying applicants will be required to meet the following conditions:
Applicants must fully utilise their own contribution before the grant funding can be disbursed for the identified intervention being implemented. - Commit to a set minimum energy and water saving requirement/s, based on the recommendations of the resource efficiency audit or review conducted by the assessor; and
- Only use service providers/installers who meet the GTIP’s requirements; nominated service providers/installers will be screened and confirmation will be provided in writing.
- Eligible applicants (having completed Phase 1) are required to demonstrate economic viability to be considered for funding.
