– to fund innovative community-based projects starting from US$300,000 to a maximum of US$750,000

THE Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is seeking proposals from Guyanese Civil Society and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) to fund innovative community based projects starting from US$300,000 to a maximum of US$750,000. According to a statement from the bank, project proposals should focus on highly innovative solutions that will solve community problems and support community-based development. “CSOs and NGOs will have the opportunity to pitch and present their most innovative solutions to the IDB, and the winners will get the IDB’s support to incubate, develop or scale up those solutions,” the bank stated.
It said this year’s Call for Proposals places emphasis on the IDB Strategy for Social Innovation in the two categories: ‘Financing Productive Development of Microenterprises’ and ‘Strengthening Prevention Against Community Violence’.
The IDB said project solutions must focus on innovative approaches that will target poverty reduction and social development activities that respond directly to the needs of socially and economically disadvantaged people, stimulate wide-spread civil society stakeholder group participation at the community level and pilot partnerships with CSOs as implementing agencies to reach groups currently not being reached by other programmes.
Those eligible to apply are local and international civil society organisations that are legally constituted and registered in Guyana with a minimum of five years, with registration under either the Friendly Societies Act, Companies Act or Trust Deed, and the ability to prove their financial soundness by evidence of the latest ‘External’ audit report of the financial statements, no later than 2011.
The IDB said it has posted call documents on its website and started accepting questions for clarifications from 15th through the 28th May and, applicants can submit their questions by email to nexso@iadb.org. The IDB will start a competitive process to accept innovative project concepts from June 10th. The IDB said it will only accept proposals received until 11:59 p.m. (Guyana time) June 24th, 2014 or the day it reaches 500 received concept solutions, whichever is earlier.

It said, too, that the IDB Guyana Country Office will host briefing sessions in Georgetown, Berbice and Linden between May 27th and June 6th. Eligible organisations interested in participating in the briefing session are advised to contact the IDB at the following contact details below.
Readers can access the IDB’s full Call for Proposals information and guidelines by following this link: http://www.iadb.org/en/topics/civil-society/call-for-proposals-civil-society-jpo/home,4216.html