The Energy and Environment Partnership Program with Southern and East Africa (EEP-SEA) is accepting proposals for partial funding for renewable energy projects in eastern and southern Africa. The program’s regional coordinator Gershwin Pududu said that these proposals – each receiving a maximum grant valued at about €200,000 – were the fourth installment under the EEP-SEA.
To be eligible, the proposal should be implemented in one or more of the partner countries which include Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zambia. The fund is open to private companies, public institutions, research organizations, educational facilities, charities, NGOs, community-based organizations, and non-profit agencies. Those not allowed to participate include governments and individuals. Pududu said: “An applicant should be registered with the appropriate registration body in the respective country of operation and appropriate registration number will be required on the application form before one is allowed to proceed with application online. Each organization should submit only one application for a given country.”
Consortium-led projects should have the lead organizer submit the application, and any form submitted by a consultancy on behalf of clients will not be accepted. Other non-eligible activities include any proposal for biofuel projects derived from jatropha. The regional coordinator said that projects needed to deal with the development phase of concrete renewable energy-producing or quantifiable energy saving projects. He said, “There are other grant funding programs that support such activities, but the EEP does not.”
The deadline for submissions is January 16 via online application. The EEP is jointly funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Austrian Development Agency, and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) while the EEP Regional Coordination Office (RCO) is hosted by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).
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