Call for Proposals 2025: Central Sahel and Lake Chad Basin

Opportunities for Sustainable Humanitarian Action

The Sahel Regional Fund (SRF) is happy to announce the launch of its 2025 Call for Proposals, inviting expressions of curiosity for built-in and sustainable humanitarian tasks within the Central Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin. This name goals to foster impactful partnerships that promote resilience and meet the pressing wants of weak communities in a number of the world’s most fragile areas.

Organizations all for making use of are inspired to rigorously assessment the submission information, which particulars strategic priorities, eligibility standards, application processes, and required documentation.

Eligibility Criteria

This alternative is open completely to consortia led by a global NGO or a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Importantly, every consortium should embody at the least one native NGO, meaningfully engaged in each the challenge design and implementation phases.

To guarantee native possession and capability constructing, it’s strongly beneficial that native companions handle at the least 25% of the full challenge funds. Furthermore, every group—whether or not a lead or accomplice—could solely take part in a single challenge beneath this name. Any group showing in a number of submissions will result in the disqualification of all related proposals.

Geographical Coverage

Projects should give attention to the next eligible areas:

• Central Sahel: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger

• Lake Chad Basin: Niger and Chad (Lac Province solely)

Nigeria, Cameroon, and Eastern Chad aren’t eligible beneath this name.

Proposals ought to display a coherent geographical technique, with clear territorial or cross-border logic. Fragmented interventions throughout disparate places with out strategic justification won’t be thought-about. The SRF prioritizes concentrated, structured operations to reinforce impression and facilitate efficient coordination.

How to Submit

Interested consortia should submit a Concept Note utilizing the designated template by May 4, 2025 at midnight (Dakar time). All submissions must be directed to tender@sahelregionalfund.org.

Only entities chosen for the following section might be invited to submit a full proposal. The required varieties might be made accessible on this web page at a later stage, and chosen entities might be knowledgeable in due time.

Please observe that participation on this name for proposals doesn’t assure that organizations and their companions will finally be chosen for a partnership with the SRF.

Organizations with questions are inspired to contact info@sahelregionalfund.org no later than April 17, 2025 at midnight.

The Sahel Regional Fund seems ahead to supporting initiatives that drive significant, sustainable change for communities throughout the Central Sahel and Lake Chad Basin.

Submission Guide ( A French model of the submission information and templates can also be accessible on the SRF web site)

Submission Resources

Applicants should make the most of the official templates, accessible for obtain:

Budget and Project Duration

Proposed tasks should meet the next monetary and temporal parameters:

• Budget vary: Between £1,000,000 and £4,000,000

• Project period: Between 12 and 24 months

Moreover, the annual quantity requested should not exceed 30% of the lead group’s earlier yr’s mixed funds for operations within the goal international locations.
Management prices are capped at 7% and have to be shared proportionately amongst consortium members.

Governance and Conflict of Interest Prevention

The choice course of takes place in two phases:

1. Assessment of idea notes, adopted by the analysis of full proposals, each carried out by an unbiased technical committee on the premise of choice standards set out within the submission information;
2. Validation of the general course of by the SRF Board, with out entry to the names of candidate organizations previous to remaining validation.

Board member organizations don’t take part in challenge evaluations and are excluded from any selections associated to proposals by which they’re concerned.

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC), because the internet hosting company for the SRF, will not be eligible to apply. Any considerations relating to battle of curiosity could also be reported by way of the unbiased channel: grievance@sahelregionalfund.org

Contacts

Tentative Timeline for the Call

• Deadline for submitting questions: April 17, 2025, at 11:59 PM
• Deadline for SRF to supply solutions: No later than April 21, 2025 (COB)
• Deadline for submitting idea notes: No later than May 4, 2025, at 11:59 PM 
• Publication of the record of entities chosen for the complete proposal section: Approximately the tip of May 2025
• Deadline for submitting full proposals (for eligible entities): To be confirmed later, however tentatively by June 22, 2025, at 11:59 PM
• Final notification of chosen entities: July 2025

Learn extra by way of the Sahel Regional Fund.

For further youth alternatives, please go to: Opportunities For Youth.

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