Deadline: 31 July 2018

Development Innovations has announced an Annual Program Statement (APS) under its “ICT Project Scale Up Fund” to support civil society organizations (CSOs) and/or private companies that are interested and willing to scale up successful information and communications technology (ICT)-enabled projects that address socio-economic development challenges in Cambodia.

Development Innovations (DI) is a six-year USAID-funded project that helps civil society organizations, technology companies, social enterprises and young innovators to design and use information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and employ innovative processes to tackle Cambodia’s development challenges.

Funding Information

• DI will provide funding for grant activities of up to $80,000 for a single award.
• DI intends to provide approximately 4 grants.
• All award activities must have a period of performance of no more than 7 months, starting on November 01st, 2018 and must be closed out no later than May 31st, 2019.

Activities

The APS seeks to fund the following types of activities:

• Expansion of an existing ICT-enabled project to other targeted areas and/or audiences (illustrative example: successful literacy assessment application served four schools, and the grant funds the expansion to more schools in five new provinces)
• Expansion of the content in an existing ICT-enabled project to serve larger number of beneficiaries (illustrative example: updating health clinic locator map on website to include more locations in provinces)
• Expansion of an existing ICT tool to 1) include additional features, and/or 2) to expand to a new platform (illustrative example: addition of a progress tracker and audio features to a literacy assessment application; or expanding app content to a website)

Eligibility Criteria

In order to meet minimum eligibility criteria for grant award, the applicant or its grant application must:

• Be an officially registered entity/organization in Cambodia (NGOs need to be registered with Ministry of Interior or Ministry of Foreign Affairs and companies need to be registered with the Ministry of Commerce).

How to Apply

Application package must be submitted electronically via email at the address given on the website.

Eligible Country: Cambodia

For more information, please visit ICT Project Scale Up Fund.