Deadline: 25 June 2014
The International Climate Initiative (IKI) supports projects on climate change and biodiversity. The annual budget of the initiative is EUR120 million.
Grant request can be made for all costs or expenditures necessary in line with the principles of sound financial management to achieve the project goal, insofar as it is not possible to achieve this goal without this support. The support granted must promote sustainable development in the partner countries. The grant applicant must demonstrate the efficiency of the expenditures and costs and the economical use of the funds.
Eligibility Criteria:
- The eligible organizations are – German implementing organizations, governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, commercial enterprises, higher education institutions, research institutes, and international and multilateral institutions.
- The projects must be implemented in partner countries. International activities of various actors from Germany and abroad are supported.
- Projects can also be implemented jointly by more than one organization/institution. In this case, cooperation must be regulated in a cooperation agreement with all implementing actors, and a project leader should be appointed.
- Applicants must demonstrate project-related expertise and experience of the target region.
- Applicants must submit documents to prove that for at least three years they have continuously implemented international cooperation projects jointly with partners in the region, or that they have been successfully involved in project-related activities for at least three years.
- Applicant implementing actors must be able to undertake qualified planning and cost-effective implementation of projects, and to monitor projects and render account for them, if necessary in collaboration with the partners or subcontractors directly involved in the implementation.
- Projects applying for support must be based on the strategies and policies of the respective partner countries and take account of existing programs and structures.
- Project proposals should be oriented to the needs of target countries, based upon a gap analysis, in order to advance the countries’ specific climate protection efforts in the best possible way.
- The governments of the partner countries must express an explicit interest in the project for the project to be selected for grant.
For more information, please visit Project Support, download the Information on support IKI selection procedure 2015 file and read thoroughly.
