Deadline: October 11th 2023 | The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund In Nigeria (Up to $2 500 000)
The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (Up to $2 500 000) which is managed by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), invites interested and qualified non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with a track record of market-based solutions to advance public health, water, sanitation, and hygiene, as well as women’s economic empowerment, to submit an application for a Call for Proposals (“CFP”) for this grant-based project “To accelerate access to safely managed sanitation to population in secondary towns and dire epidemic areas
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Scope
- In Nigeria, the Project will be put into action. In order to ensure alignment with SHFs wider country engagement, the states, secondary towns, and specific demographics will be negotiated as part of the Call for Proposals process and in conjunction with the Federal Government. The following things fall under the purview of the project:
- Market-based methods for safely managing sanitation and hygiene on-site and off-grid
- City-wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) provides market-based, safely managed sanitation and hygiene solutions that adequately serve consumers in the bottom of the pyramid/lower wealth quintile and vulnerable populations in secondary/small towns with high densities of population.
- guiding concepts and solutions that are gender- and climate-smart
- solutions from trash to value
- empowerment of women in the workforce, the production of jobs, entrepreneurship, and the sanitation economy sanitation value chain efficiencies for market shaping
- affordability and scalability
Financial Details
Amount of Grant: $2,500,000
Two years and six months
Specific results of the money or grant
- The project, as well as domestic priorities, resources, and other funding, must show how the award complements, leverages, and is additional to existing sources of support. The Project aims to deliver proof of concept through market-based innovation, services, business models, and technology in line with SHF’s overall strategic goals. The Project’s particular goals are:
- The Project will increase access to safely managed sanitation and hygiene facilities in secondary towns and cholera hotspots in Nigeria and will promote City-wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) approaches. The goal is to improve public health, including reducing cholera, through increased access to on-site/off-grid safely managed sanitation and hygiene facilities for vulnerable populations.
- The project will assist in bringing safely managed sanitation and hygiene solutions closer to communities, lowering transactions and making these services more available, dependable, and inexpensive. This will contribute to a healthy sanitation economy and specifically shorten the sanitation value chain. This will cover, but not be limited to, strategies that improve the management of faeces, including its collection, transportation, treatment, and disposal.
- The Project will offer solutions, where appropriate, to advance the reuse of human waste, for instance by deploying straightforward transformation technologies that combine human waste and other agricultural waste streams to produce a solid biomass fuel. This will help the sanitation value chain advance climate-smart and waste-to-energy solutions.
- To promote the economic empowerment of women, including through involvement in the regional sanitation sector: The Project will incorporate techniques for creating SMEs that guarantee the inclusion of women in the sanitation sector as leaders, business owners, employees, and knowledgeable consumers. The Project will also try to show how better access to economic empowerment for women is correlated with their ability to manage their own sanitation and hygiene.
The intended recipients
- The main target demographic resides in high-density (presumably informal) urban poor environments in small towns and secondary towns. They frequently have cholera outbreaks (i.e., they reside in a cholera hotspot), and/or they are more susceptible to the negative health and economic effects of a lack of sanitation and hygiene. These populations are quite likely to be found at the base of the economic pyramid or in the lower wealth quintiles. The primary target group is women, and the emphasis is on their economic empowerment and well-being.
- Nigeria is the main country.
Eligibility
- To qualify for the grant or funding, the applicant must adhere to the following requirements.
- The applicant and all of its constituents must fall under the relevant category(ies).
- The application will be considered to be registered in a nation if it was formed, incorporated, or registered there and works in accordance with its legal requirements. If the applicant is an individual, that person will be judged to have that nation’s nationality if they are considered citizens under that nation’s laws.
- The applicant may face sanctions in accordance with the UNOPS vendor sanctions policy if they fail to disclose any actual or prospective conflicts of interest.
For more information please visit UNOPS for more information.
