Global Environment Facility Microfinance Program for CSOs (Tunisia)

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UN Women is pleased to announce the applications for the Global Environment Facility Microfinance Program to support innovative community initiatives that will raise awareness and contribute to the resolution of environmental problems occurring at the local level while ensuring strong involvement of the Project's target, especially young people and women.

The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Program (GEF SGP) is a financial mechanism that aims to find local solutions to global environmental problems. It is exclusively intended for civil society organizations (NGOs, Development Associations, Grassroots Community Organizations), to which it provides technical and financial support for the execution of community projects likely to contribute to the sustainable management of natural resources and Environmental protection.

Objectives

• Projects submitted as part of this call must propose operational initiatives enabling:

  • Promote environmental culture

  • Implement concrete field actions to resolve relevant and identified environmental problems Promote learning, training and the promotion of traditional know-how that respects the environment

  • Develop value chains resilient to climate change

  • Support the development of Startups operating in one of the 6 areas of intervention of the PMF FEM

  • Promoting sustainable models of the blue economy

  • Contribute to the preservation of species threatened with extinction or the valorization of introduced invasive species.

Focus Areas

• This call for projects covers the following areas of intervention:

  • Conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity,

  • The fight against climate change,

  • Protection of international waters,

  • Sustainable forest management

  • The fight against land degradation

  • The fight against persistent chemical or organic pollutants

  • The intervention landscapes of this call for projects cover all the governorates of Tunisia.

Funding Information

• The awarding of grants under this call for projects will follow the operational guidelines of the GEF PMF. The maximum grant amount for each project should not exceed USD 50,000.

• The average financing is 25,000 USD. The funding ceiling will only be granted to projects with a significant and innovative and confirmed scope.

• Co-financing in kind and in cash is required and must be specified in the project sheet.

• The maximum duration of each project is 18 months.

Eligibility

• Project proposals must:

  • Be designed and submitted by an NGO/CBO under Tunisian law

  • Be related to the areas of intervention and the objectives of the call 

  • Rely on community participation during the design, implementation and monitoring of projects;

  • Be implemented in the landscapes specified by this call for projects

  • Be in harmony with international conventions and national strategies 

  • Take the gender approach into consideration and involve young people;

  • Have a clear and concrete socio-economic impact on local communities;

  • Apply innovative interventions

  • Contribute with co-financing in kind and in cash;

Post Date: April 18, 2024