The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) has commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to carry out international calls for small scale projects, the IKI Small Grants scheme. Information about the support of small organisations in developing and emerging economies under this funding programme can be found here.
Applications for the first IKI Small Grants call can be submitted from 5 February to 5 March 2020 via the IKI online platform. All templates necessary for application are available under “Guidelines and Templates” on this website. Please make sure that you exclusively use these new templates when submitting your application (updated 05.02.2020). Proposals drafted by using other templates or other formats which had been released earlier will not be considered.
All application documents must be filled out in English only.
For more information on preparing an IKI Small Grants project application, please refer to the application guidelines and the funding information also available for download on this website.
The selection procedure has only a single-stage. After the closing of the call on 5 March 2020, the project applications will be evaluated.
The applications will be subject to a detailed technical and legal-financial evaluation by the GIZ’s IKI Small Grants Team in Berlin, during which GIZ’s country offices will also be consulted.
The IKI Small Grants team will contact the selected project applicants. This will be followed by an in-depth review of the project concept.
The duration of the proposed projects should range from 6 months to 2 years (the duration can be longer in justified cases). The project should be planned to start during the 4th quarter of 2020.
The call for project proposals, the selection process and the disbursement of funds are handled by GIZ and in accordance with GIZ procedures. Calls for proposals will be carried out on a regular basis and will be published on this website. The IKI Small Grants scheme will select project proposals with a funding volume of up to 100,000 euros. The GIZ’s IKI Small Grants team selects projects in mutual agreement with BMU. Detailed information regarding conditions for funding, selection criteria, project objectives, and funding priorities can be found in the funding information.
Applicants must be based and registered in countries that fulfil the criteria for Official Development Assistance (ODA) defined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). If more than one country is involved, the countries must be neighbouring countries. Projects with a global focus will not be funded as well as organisations with an average yearly turnover of more than EUR 500,000. The proposed projects must be non-profit.
The IKI Small Grants safeguard system is a tool to avoid or mitigate harm to people and the environment during the implementation of a project. Therefore, applicants have to assess whether the implementation of a project carries the risk to cause negative impacts.
The IKI Small Grants standard indicators are an important tool for overall project monitoring but are not part of the project application. The standard indicators will be determined together with the selected project applicants before the signing of the grant agreement.
The FAQs only present a quick overview. For further details on the funding criteria we strongly recommend carefully reading the IKI Small Grants Funding Information, the IKI Small Grants Application Guidelines and the other documents provided on our website.
Funding will only be granted:
Funding will only be granted to projects:
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IKI Small Grants Project Application Form (Englisch | DOCX, 5,6 MB)
IKI Small Grants – Application Guidelines (Englisch | PDF, 561 KB)
IKI Small Grants – Travel Allowances (Englisch | PDF, 859 KB)
Gantt Chart (English | XLS, 15 KB)
IKI Small Grants Budget Template (Englisch | XLS, 21 KB)
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IKI Small Grants team
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Potsdamer Platz 10
10785 Berlin, Germany
iki-small-grants(at)giz.de