Deadline: 17 April 2019
A new UK Aid Direct funding round will open for Impact grants on Monday 4 March 2019.
Funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), UK Aid Direct was established in 2014 as a successor to the Global PovertyAction Fund (GPAF), which was created in 2010.
The aim of UK Aid Direct is to fund small- and medium-sized national and international civil society organisations (CSOs) to reduce poverty and work towards achieving the Global Goals. Specifically, UK Aid Direct funding reaches the most marginalised and vulnerable populations, supporting the DFID agenda to ‘leave no one behind’.
Grant size
- Applicants can apply for funding of between £250,001 and £4,000,000 per application.
- Applicant organisations must have an average annual income of less than £10,000,000 for the past 3 years (as shown in approved organisational accounts).
Duration
- From between 3 to 5 years, proposals for 3+ years must be supported by a compelling case for longer duration.
- UK Aid Direct Impact grants can be used to fund new, time-limited projects of up to 60-month (5 years) duration. Additional components of on-going programmes must be clearly identifiable as discrete projects, with a well-defined project outcome, a clear, time-limited schedule for delivery, and a distinct budget.
Eligibility Criteria
- Impact grants are open to applications from medium-sized, non-governmental organisations that are registered as a not-for-profit organisation in the UK, in one of the lowest 50 countries in the UNHuman Development Index (HDI) or in one of the countries that DFID considers to be of high or moderate fragility.
- Consortium applications
- For the purpose of the UK Aid Direct programme, DFID defines consortium applications as those submitted by formal consortia only, i.e. where 2 or more organisations come together to create a new, formally constituted organisation, with its own organisational accounts.
- Informal consortia, i.e. where 2 or more organisations work together on a specific project or initiative only, will be considered as partnerships, as defined in the Partnerships and Consortiums page.
- All formal consortium members must meet the UK Aid Direct Impact grant applicant organisation eligibility criteria.
- To be eligible:
- the average annual income of each consortium member organisation must be less than £10,000,000
- the total combined income of consortium members may exceed £10,000,000
- if registered as a separate legal entity, the average annual income of the consortium must be less than £10,000,000
How to Apply
- Applying for an Impact grant is a 2-staged process:
- the submission of a concept note
- a full application (if an organisation is successful)
- All applications must be submitted online. Applications sent via email or post will not be accepted.
- A supporting guidance webinar to help applicants to complete their concept notes will be held on Tuesday 26 February at 11.30 – 12.30. Registration is required in advance.
Eligible Countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt (Arab Republic of), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, The Occupied Palestinian Territories, Papua New, Guinea, Rwanda, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania(United Republic of), Togo, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Uganda, Venezuela(República Bolivariana de), Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, United Kingdom.
For more information, please visit https://www.ukaiddirect.org/apply/impact/