Climate Smart Cities Challenge
Deadline: 12-Sep-21
The UN Habitat is inviting proposals for Climate Smart Cities Challenge – a global innovation initiative that makes use of innovation approaches such as challenge-driven innovation to match cities with smart solutions that help them achieve their climate goals.
The Climate Smart Cities Challenge is a global innovation initiative that makes use of innovation approaches such as challenge-driven innovation to match cities with smart solutions that help them achieve their climate goals.
A central aspect of the approach is innovation competitions that match cities’ identified needs (“challenges”) with concrete and innovative solutions, often from the private sector. These competitions incentivize innovators to come up with solutions to the challenges, helping cities innovate and identify climate smart solutions that can be tested and implemented through different stages.
To match the best solutions with the identified challenges, the competition is openly publicized, offering a reward to the team that comes up with the best solution.
Funding Information
Size of Grant: Up to USD 92,000
What they are looking for
They are now going into the competition part of the initiative and need to identify a competition partner to work with the Climate Smart Cities Challenge team to lead it.
The partner will work directly with UN-Habitat’s Innovation Unit, the four cities and other partner organizations such as Viable Cities.
The partner organization needs to have demonstrated experience in challenge-driven innovation, challenge prizes and leading/implementing innovation competitions or similar processes.
Geographic Focus
Lead an outreach campaign to solicit high-quality proposals from innovators globally, including from the four countries Brazil, Colombia, Uganda and United Kingdom.
Eligibility Criteria
The project “Climate Smart Cities Challenge’, a city-based open innovation initiative that invites technologists, businesses, innovators and investors to develop, test and scale cutting-edge solutions in a specific city or set of cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to making these cities more climate smart.
They are now looking for a non-profit organization to lead the innovation competition phase of the project.
Legal Status
Certificate of registration/incorporation i.e.,
Proof of registration.
Organization profile and details
Clear organization profile and structure of the organization indicating:
Organization’s vision, mission and objectives
Management structure
Members of the Governing Board and their Designations Proof of membership to professional associations, if any.
Financial Capacity
Audited company financial statements (balance sheet and income statement) and auditors report for the last two years
Exclusive bank account
Is the organization willing and able to have a separate bank account for the funds provided by UN-Habitat
Integrity and Governance
The organization should complete and submit a signed Partner Declaration Form
Provide the profiles of the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Head of the Organization and Chief of Finance
For more information, visit https://unhabitat.org/node/160622