Czech Challenge Fund – Ethiopia

Description

1) Objective

The Czech-UNDP Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals Project aims to respond to the development challenges by transferring innovative solutions for SDGs to partner countries. The objective of the Czech Challenge fund: Innovations for SDGs is to facilitate the transfer of know-how and innovative solutions.

The challenges for Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia are:

• Climate Resilience and Environment Sustainability: with focus on e.g., Access to renewable, affordable, and clean energy, Solar energy solutions, Sustainable urbanization and smart city technologies including strategic benchmarking tools for economic growth via Big Data usage, Dynamic traffic control and intersection coordination, Systems for inspection and maintenance of city infrastructure, Data crowd sourcing platforms.
• Inclusive Economic Transformation: with focus on e.g., Strengthening the innovation ecosystem targeting the youth, Technologies and tools to facilitate technology transfer and cooperation between universities and industry, Inclusive and innovative finance, Digital payments and innovative finance tools/approaches, Support to SMEs, Sustainable agriculture.

2) Eligibility

The eligible applicants include the private sector, NGOs, universities, state institutions or research centres. The applicants are required to engage local partners to assure viability in local conditions and to promote the sustainability and scalability of the solution. Partnership with the local partner needs to be presented in the form of letter of cooperation, memorandum of understanding or similar document signed by both parties.

3) Location

Actions must take place in Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

4) Budget

Grants are ranging between US$20,000 and US$40,000, the applicants provide co-funding of at least 20% of the total cost of the project.

5) Application

The application deadline is 6 December 2024. Interested suppliers must submit their offer directly in the system as instructed in the solicitation document, following the instructions in the available user guide.