Call for Proposals: Digital and Green Innovations Action in Africa
Deadline: 04-Sep-2024
Enabel has launched the Digital and Green Innovation Joint Action that aims at operationalising the advancement of the twin transition to a green and digital economy, with a strong focus on entrepreneurship and innovation.
It will foster digital solutions that tackle environmental challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss, while contributing to circular and resilient local economies.
This Joint Action is funded by the European Union, Germany, Belgium, Estonia and France and implemented by these member states, which provide expertise and contributions through their development agencies (i.e. GIZ, Enabel, ESTDEV, AFD & Expertise France).
This Call for Proposals is implemented by Enabel through its Innovation Hub – Wehubit, under the Digital and Green Innovation Joint Action.
The DGI Action will have a global scope, covering Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central Asia, and Asia-Pacific.
General and Specific Objectives
- The general objective of this Call for Proposals is to increase the use of and access to digital solutions, as a vehicle to tackle environmental challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss, while contributing to inclusive and sustainable development in the partner countries of the Belgian development cooperation.
- The specific objective of the Call for Proposals is to identify and to support the scaling of Digital and Green Innovations (DGI) that are relevant for the country portfolio objectives of Enabel and the European Union in the respective Africa partner countries of the Belgian development cooperation.
- This Call for Proposals will identify and support Digital and Green Innovations that are ready to or transitioning to scale.
Thematic Priorities
- The Thematic Priorities of Enabel and its partners are the following:
- Climate-Smart agriculture and sustainable food systems
- Resilient cities and sustainable urban planning
- Water management/floods prevention
- Circular economy and e-waste management
- Sustainable, affordable and clean energy
Funding Information
- The total indicative sum available for Enabel’s Call for Proposals is 750.000 EUR. The contracting authority reserves the right to not award all of the available funds.
- Grants value
- Any grant application under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- Minimum amount: 100.000,00 EUR
- Maximum amount: 150.000,00 EUR
- Any grant application under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- Duration: The term of the action may not be less than 12 months, or exceed 14 months.
Outputs
- Output 1 (Africa): Entrepreneurship support for digital and green innovation in the acceleration phase in Africa.
- Output 2 (Africa): (Pre)-Incubation and pre-acceleration support in Africa
- Output 3 (Latin America and the Caribbean): Capacity-building on earth observation in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Output 4 (Asia Pacific): Entrepreneurship support for digital and green innovation in the acceleration phase in Asia Pacific
- Output 5: Policy dialogues and partnerships
- Output 6: Finance brokerage
General Target and Modalities
- The Call focuses on providing grants and capacity building/learning opportunities to public institutions (national and/or regional), academia, CSOs, NGOs and other ‘not-forprofit’ actors (such as social enterprises or not-for-profit business associations).
- This Call for proposals organises the competitive selection process, which will proceed in 2 rounds. After the second round only 4 or 5 of the received applications will be awarded with a grant to support the sustainable scaling of their proposed Digital and Green Innovations.
Geographic Scope
- DGIs should be implemented in one or more partner country of the Belgian Development Cooperation in Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, DRC, Guinea-Conakry, Mali, Mozambique, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Uganda, Senegal and Tanzania.
- This Call for Proposals appreciates DGIs that have multi-country/regional scope.
- For the sake of coherence and longer-term sustainability of the supported DSIs, the Call for proposals will target and prioritise countries that are common to other EU partners implementing activities in Africa: Uganda and Rwanda.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant
- To be eligible for grants, the applicant must satisfy the following conditions:
- be a legal person; and
- be a public actor or be a private non-profit actor; and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the coapplicant(s) and not be acting as an intermediary; and
- have already managed a grant (of public funds) amounting to 40% of the amount applied for. A certificate of satisfactory performance signed by the donor is mandatory and constitutes proof thereof; and
- have at one’s disposal financial statements certified by an independent body (audit or statutory commissioner). Those statements must not be older than 2 years.
- To be eligible for grants, the applicant must satisfy the following conditions:
- Co-applicant(s)
- The co-applicant(s) shall participate in the implementation of the action, and the costs that they incur shall be eligible in the same way as those incurred by the applicant.
- The co-applicant(s) must satisfy the eligibility criteria which apply to the applicant itself, except that:
- they do not need to prove that they have already managed a grant amounting to 40% of the amount applied for;
- The co-applicant(s) must sign the ‘Mandate statement’.
For more information, visit Enabel.