Stichting Wageningen Research (SWR) Ethiopia is an international NGO registered in Ethiopia since March 2021 with the FDRE Agency for Civil Society Organizations. The organization is established with the objectives of promoting a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable food systems in Ethiopia. SWR Ethiopia currently implements four projects; Resilient Agriculture for Inclusive and Sustainable Ethiopian Food Systems (RAISE-FS), Ethiopia-Netherlands Seed Partnership (ENSP), REFOOTURE and OTIPAVA projects. Resilient Agriculture for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems (RAISE-FS), RAISE-FS is a project designed with the goal of creating evidence for practices that contribute to transformation of the food system by addressing leverage points in relation to productivity, enhanced value chain performance and improved human nutrition for improved food security while minimizing the impact on the environment and ensuring social inclusion. Among its interventions is, a component on promoting private sector driven innovation via a grant scheme called the “Innovation Fund” that offers funding. These innovation projects are expected to address hindering challenges in various agricultural sub-sectors in Ethiopia while benefiting smallholder farmers, improve food systems and/or enhance export of selected commodities.
The Innovation Fund application process is structured around Call for Projects. Underlying document is the second Call for Projects. Each Call for Projects employs a two-stage submission process:
- During the first stage a concept note will be submitted, including business license. Overall eligibility of the concept note will be checked against the minimum criteria as laid out in underlying Call for Projects and the Fund Manual.
- Applicants that fulfil the minimum criteria will enter the second stage, and will be invited to submit a full proposal. Each proposal is evaluated on the basis of the minimum criteria and five Selection Criteria as laid out in underlying Call for Projects and the Fund Manual.
- Technical and financial capacity of the applicant to implement the intended project might be assessed via a company visit during first stage and second stage assessment. Companies can only re-apply a rejected concept note and proposal once.
Fund Manual (link) and concept note form (link) are available upon request by sending an email to innovationfund2022@gmail.com or can be downloaded from https://raise-fs.org/publications/
Documents are available at: https://raise-fs.org/publications/
RAISE-FS Innovation Fund announcement
The full advertisement can also be found: Stichting Wageningen Research (SWR) Innovation Fund 2nd Call For Projects | The Reporter | Latest Ethiopian News Today (thereporterethiopia.com)
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Please submit signed concept notes, including copy of business license (front & back pages), to innovationfund2022@gmail.com Concept notes that are received after March 24 2024, will not be taken into consideration for underlying Call for Projects.
If you have any additional questions after reading Call for Projects and Fund Manual, please feel free to contact Mr Shitaye Adugna at innovationfund2022@gmail.com with Cc to helen.getaw.swr@gmail.com and info.SWREthiopia@gmail.com or
on +251 118 360313/+251 985 202766.
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