Call for Investment Proposals for the Youth and Women Economic Empowerment Programme (YWEE) in Kigoma

Pre-submission workshop: 9AM Thursday 14^th September at Lake Tanganyika Hotel Kigoma Ujiji.

Call for Investment Proposals

With this Call for Proposals, UNCDF is inviting calls for commercially viable investment project proposals in the following focus areas:

1. Women’s economic empowerment: Investment projects owned or developed by women or projects with large derived benefits accruing to women, e.g. small and medium sized infrastructure projects in our areas of focus (agro-processing, manufacturing and trade, climate resilience and clean energy, and public service delivery).
2. Youth Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship: Investment projects managed, owned or developed by youth (young women and men at the age of 15- 34 years) which address challenges faced by youth such as employment and job creation, income generation, technical business skills, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Instructions for submitting proposal

Only completed submissions as per the instructions given will be reviewed. A complete submission consists of the following two separate submission forms where the applicant must fill out all sections:

The Call for Proposal Submission Form (Word) which can be downloaded at 2a. Submission Form

The Call for Proposal Submission Form (Excel) which can be downloaded at 2b. Submission_Form

Any supporting documentation must be submitted in separate documents.

The two submission forms (Word and Excel) must be submitted in their original formats (Word and Excel) along with any supporting documentation to the following recipient: local.finance@uncdf.org. Only one application per entity and per proposal will be accepted.

Language of proposal: Proposals must be submitted in English

Deadline for submission: The deadline for submission of investment proposals is on 25th September 2017.

Please note: Applicants who do not submit both submission templates in their original formats within the deadline will not be considered, and only successful applicants will be contacted within 3 weeks after the deadline. Those applicants who will not be contacted should consider their proposals unsuccessful.