Micro-projects: Call for Applications 2025

Description

1) Objective

Implementing the German Feminist Foreign Policy and the Just Energy Transition, the focus of the support is on the following sectors in South Africa, eSwatini and Lesotho:

• Women’s rights, access to equal education and health care, women’s resources and representation
• Anti-discrimination of any kind, gender equality, anti-discrimination of sexual orientation and physical disabilities
• Measures supporting the Just Energy Transition
• Local economic development/alternative livelihoods, especially in communities with phased-out revenues from fossil fuels, small-scale farming

2) Eligibility

Eligibility is limited to NGOs / NPOs and other civil society actors which support marginalised and impoverished communities or communities in transition.

3) Location

Actions must take place in South Africa. Applications from the priority target regions of Mpumalanga and Limpopo will be given enhanced consideration. Projects for Eastern-, Northern- and Western Cape are managed by the Consulate General in Cape Town.

4) Budget

Subject to meeting the criteria described in the guidelines, funding of up to €25,000 can be granted for one project. Each project has to be finished by the end of the same year it started.

5) Application

Please direct your application for funding and all subsequent documents to microprojects@pret.diplo.de by 31 March 2025.