Green Challenge Fund in Uganda
Deadline: 31-Aug-22
Applications are now open for the Green Challenge Fund (GCF) to address the increasing impacts of climate change on Uganda’s agri-food system.
The proposal is developed in line with national and international strategies of increasing climate change resilience and also contributing to achieving the global target of limiting global temperature rise to well below 2°C, and potentially even to 1.5°C by 2050.
Objectives and Activities
Successful applicants will sign a project funding agreement with aBi Development Ltd, which consists of a contract, a detailed description of the objectives, activities and outputs of the project and a series of key-performance indicators that measure the success of the project.
Funding agreements are awarded on a competitive basis. The best eligible proposals, in terms of innovation, relevance, quality and ability to scale up will be awarded a funding agreement until the total available funding from aBi for this GCF runs out
Focus Areas
Key focus areas include:
supporting SMEs and farmers to increase their resilience to climate change and climate variability
supporting climate mitigation actions to reduce or limit GHG emissions or to enhance GHG sequestration.
supporting a stronger local environment, including soils, ecosystems and bio-diversity.
Funding Information
Initial funding available for the GCF is UGX 7.5 billion
Eligibility Criteria
The Green Challenge Fund is open to private sector agribusinesses, NGOs, scientists, researchers and start-ups. Applicant proposals should directly or indirectly lead to increased economic activity and productivity in the aBi seven (7) priority value chains (Coffee, cereals, and poultry, dairy, horticulture, pulses and oilseeds through the increase of SMEs and farmer resilience to climate change or reduce GHGs / enhance carbon sinks and reservoirs or contribution to environmental conservation. The fund is open to green innovations from all parts of the country.
Applicants should submit their proposals or business ideas under any one of the three categories, namely
Growth stage: aBi existing and Past Implementing Partners as well as new entities seeking to green their investments (Budget allocation of UGX 5Bn; average project size up to UGX500m)
acceleration/start-ups: projects at pilot stage with green innovations in aBi priority value chains (Budget allocation of UGX 1.5Bn – project size UGX50m-200m)
Projects at ideation stage that require nurturing and piloting (Budget allocation of UGX 1Bn – project size 5m- 30m)
For more information, visit https://www.abi.co.ug/funding-windows/