Tadamon Accelerator for Food Security 2025 (up to $40,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Tadamon Accelerator for Food Security 2025. Food safety is essential to human nicely-being, instantly impacting the well being and stability of people and communities. However, many areas face rising meals insecurity due to local weather change, battle, and crises. The Tadamon Accelerator for Food Security, funded by IsDB and ISFD and carried out by UNDP, invites Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)—with a deal with neighborhood-primarily based organizations, tech-pushed CSOs, and social enterprises—to handle these challenges via revolutionary and impactful options that contribute to a safer future.​

Do you symbolize a CSO with an revolutionary undertaking aimed toward enhancing meals safety? Are you working in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, the State of Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, or Yemen? If so, you might be invited to be a part of the Tadamon Accelerator for Food Security and additional develop your revolutionary options to create a safer and resilient future with sustainable meals entry. Building on the success of the 2022 Tadamon Accelerator, this second version guarantees to be much more transformative, impactful, and rewarding!

Thematic Focus

Your undertaking proposals ought to align with one of many following two thematic tracks:

• Track 1: Climate good agriculture
• Track 2: Tech for meals, power, and water entry and utilization

Benefits

• An 11-week intensive on-line coaching program
• 1 – 1 mentorship
• Tailored, partaking modules and periods on Business Model Development, Impact, Project Development and Management, Finance and Fundraising, and a Thematic Focus on Food Security
• Access to world-class specialists and a vibrant neighborhood of changemakers
• Funding – grants (up to $40,000), a complete quantity of $850,000 USD offered to one of the best-performing CSOs.

Eligibility

• You are an NGO, affiliation, social enterprise, INGO, basis, cooperative, neighborhood-primarily based group, or civil society community.
• You are a registered CSO in one of many following 12 nations and planning to implement your undertaking in these nations: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, the State of Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, or Yemen.
• You are a member of the Tadamon Community.
•  You should clearly display proficiency in each written and spoken English, as this system will likely be carried out in English.
• Your proposal should align with one of many Accelerator’s thematic areas and contribute to this system’s aim of enhancing meals safety in 12 battle-affected nations. The focus needs to be on enhancing meals entry and sustainability for susceptible communities whereas selling innovation.

Selection Criteria

• Project feasibility: Your revolutionary answer is possible—it may be simply developed, examined, and carried out inside 6 months of graduating from the Tadamon Accelerator.
• Innovation novelty: You leverage reducing-edge applied sciences, digital instruments, or introduce new concepts, approaches, merchandise, or providers to a goal group or market. Projects that successfully combine applied sciences similar to AI, blockchain, IoT, or knowledge-pushed options to improve meals safety, useful resource administration, or neighborhood resilience will likely be prioritized.
• Established partnerships: You present a willingness and readiness to interact with native or different companions throughout implementation. Collaboration with INGOs is strongly inspired.
• Scalability: Your group demonstrates a necessity for the proposed answer/innovation and potential to attain new goal teams and markets.
• Potential for impression: Your revolutionary answer has a excessive potential for impression, which you’ll display via a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Management: You have a devoted group consisting of not less than 2 members with related backgrounds and experience.
• Co-financing: You display a willingness and potential to present a minimal of 1:2 of the undertaking’s complete price range, both as an in-variety contribution or as co-financing from exterior sources.

In addition to the above choice standards, the next standards can even be taken into consideration when deciding on closing individuals:

• Gender: You promote gender illustration, and to guarantee gender steadiness, submitted options needs to be gender-responsive and/or contribute to gender equality. At least 35% of the chosen organizations will want to be ladies-led CSOs.
• Conflict areas and susceptible teams: You function in battle-susceptible areas and assist susceptible teams.

Application

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For extra data, go to Tadamon Accelerator for Food Security.