Deadline: 28 February 2019

The Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF) is seeking proposals for its Enabling Environment Grant which will support the enabling environment for the development of the Creative Industries (CI) sector.

This component will be targeted at reducing constraints faced by MSMEs involved in the CI sector,through financing interventions to support CIs, which would focus on improving the business climate for MSMEs in the CI sector including drafting of legislation inclusive of national cultural and creative policies and gender related initiatives that would support increased inclusion of women in the sector.

It will focus on financing of goods, consultations, workshops, seminars, technical work, research(including knowledge products), and institutional strengthening activities.

Funding Information

CIIF will fund up to 90% of the project cost or a maximum of USD 150,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Change agents in the CI sector who are creating platforms to access and integrate into the global creative economy.
• Public-private partnerships that are executing business climate reforms, innovation policy and intellectual property asset management.
• Business support organisations, chambers of commerce, government agencies that are reducing constraints faced by MSMEs involved in CIs, improving the business climate of CIs including drafting of legislation and gender related initiatives, focusing on financing of goods, consultations, workshops, seminars, technical work, research (including knowledge products), and institutional strengthening activities.
• Eligible Organisations: Governments, Business Support Organisations, Universities, Non-Governmental Organisations and Creative Enterprises from all sectors can apply. However, CIIF has five priority sub-sectors. These include:
  • Fashion
  • Visual Arts
  • Audio-visual (Film, Animation, Gaming)
  • Festivals and Carnivals
  • Music
• Organisations applying must be resident in one of the CaribbeanDevelopment Bank’s 19 Borrowing Member Countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted online via given website.

For more information, please visit https://www.caribank.org/ciif