Funding Opportunities: Transforming Humanitarian Energy Access

Are you able to make an enduring affect in displacement settings? Whether you’re a refugee-led enterprise, a non-profit group, or an entrepreneur, the THEA Inclusive Investment Pilots offers monetary help and sources to show progressive power initiatives into actuality.

We are providing as much as 12 grants of £10,000 (native forex equal) to help sustainable power supply fashions in displacement settings:

• Uganda: 6 grants
• Ethiopia: 3 grants
• Kenya: 3 grants

Projects will obtain funding for 12 months and should be accomplished by June 2026.

Funding Mechanisms

Funding shall be out there via three completely different merchandise:

1. Enhancing Group Savings Linked Loans

• Targets refugee-led organizations supporting Village Savings & Loan Associations (VSLAs) and Saving Co-operatives.
• Funds will match group financial savings to buy renewable power or clear cooking merchandise.
• Loans are managed throughout the Savings Group, with repayments revolving for future lending.
• Funding is offered in two tranches of £5,000 every.
• Anticipated ratio: 3:1 (Investment Pilot funding: Group Savings).
• Overheads permitted as much as 20%.

2. Results-Based Funding

• Supports early-stage initiatives in search of start-up capital.
• First tranche as much as £5,000, with follow-on funding linked to affect aims.
• Follow-on tranches are paid proportionally to revenues generated, selling a market-based strategy.
• Anticipated ratio: 4:1 (Investment Pilot funding: revenues generated).
• Overheads permitted as much as 20%.

3. Revenue Sharing Repayable Grant

• For initiatives already producing income, enabling enlargement.
• Repayments are made in proportion to income generated.
• No curiosity charged; after six months, 2.5% of grant capital is forgiven per quarter if affect targets are met.
• Repayments are made to a native micro-finance accomplice.
• Overheads permitted as much as 20%.

Eligibility Criteria

This open name invites purposes from:

• Enterprises or not-for-profit organizations based and led by refugees and forcibly displaced individuals
• Individual entrepreneurs who’re refugees or forcibly displaced individuals
• Start-ups, operational enterprises, and not-for-profits with revenue-generating initiatives or potential for income era

Projects should use present clear power applied sciences and give attention to revenue-generating power supply fashions. Funding won’t be out there for expertise analysis and growth.

Eligible applied sciences embrace, however usually are not restricted to:

• Solar energy for irrigation, refrigeration/chilly storage, grain milling, and agro-processing
• Electric mobility
• Clean cooking (biogas, carbonized briquettes, electrical cooking)

Eligible Locations

Projects should serve households, micro-enterprises, and small companies within the following refugee/IDP settlements:

• Uganda: Kyaka II, Rwamwanja, Kyangwali, Nakivale, Rhino Camp, Kiryandongo, Bidibidi, Impevi, Palorinya, Palabek, Adjumani
• Ethiopia: Barahale, Aysaita, Sheder, Aw-barre, Kebribeyah, Melkadida, Helaweyn, Bokolmanyo, Kobe, Buramino
• Kenya: Kakuma-Kalobeyi Integrated Settlement

Projects can serve each displaced communities and host populations.

How to Apply

Applications may be submitted by 17 March 2025 by way of:

• Downloadable application kind
• WhatsApp submission of photographs, movies, or voice notes to +447362604084

Applicants submitting by way of WhatsApp should guarantee they tackle all questions within the THEA Inclusive Investment Pilot Application Form.

More Information

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