Deadline: 26-Aug-23
Project Concept Notes are invited from Civil Society Organizations (includes local communities/indigenous people groups, community-based organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), faith-based organization (FBOs), and other related non-governmental groups) registered in Tanzania.
The Small Grants Programme of the Global Environment Facility (GEF/SGP) is a corporate development programme implemented through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Globally, the GEF/SGP was established in 1992 at the Earth Summit to compliment larger GEF projects by providing a window for direct participation of local, and community-based organizations through the implementation of projects that align to local and national priorities with overall benefits to the global environment. The GEF/SGP provides financial and technical support to projects that conserve and restore the environment while enhancing people’s well-being and livelihoods. In Tanzania, under the overall coordination of the Vice President’s Office/GEF Focal Point, GEF/SGP became operational since 1996.
Thematic Focus
The available funding under this Call for Project Concept Notes is strictly under the Biodiversity Portfolio focus. Under this focus area, the Call is looking for Project Concept Notes for implementation of appropriate community-based measures that enhance biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, including:
- Improved sustainability of protected areas
- Mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in production landscapes/seascapes and sectors and landscapes under Indigenous and community conserved areas (ICCAs)
- Respect for and preservation of traditional knowledge in conservation
- Sustainable management of ecosystem services
- Maintenance and improvement of the conservation status of species
- Equitable access and benefit sharing derived from the use of biological resources
- Sustainable production and use of agro-ecology and agro-biodiversity products
- Engagement and empowerment of women, Indigenous Peoples, youth, and local communities in biodiversity conservation.
Funding Information
- Budget sealing and time frame: The Concept Note budgets should be presented in Tanzania shillings (TZS) to an amount not exceeding the equivalent of USD 50,000. Project period should not be less than 12 month or more than 24 months.
Key Consideration
Project Concept Notes should mainly be tailored in line with Biodiversity Thematic focus, and where possible integrating other elements of GEF Focal areas such as land degradation and climate change mitigation. The proposed concepts should demonstrate the following attributes:
- Consistency with biodiversity conservation-related country priorities as articulated in Sector, and National Development Frameworks, and the overall National Environmental Master Plan for Strategic Interventions (2022-2032)
- Address gender issues at project formulation, implementation, and benefit sharing stages
- Innovation, promotion of social inclusion and show plans for scaling up
- Clearly indicating that supported grantee will be able to mobilize co-finance of at least 10% of total project costs in-cash and/or in-kind.
- Clearly indicating a logical connection between the problem/opportunity, solutions/activities and expected results.
- All organizations that have recently received a notification of partial approval of their proposals submitted earlier during 2020 are not advised to apply. However, organizations that have recently (during 2022-2023) completed projects funded through SGP can apply for this call. Each applicant can only submit one project concept note.
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PROMOTION OF INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF SERVICES
(PIDERS)
PIDERS – Is a National Economic Development Organization that creates Business solutions to Poverty in Tanzania
Overview:
Since 2000, the Tanzanian economy has grown at an impressive 7% rate. Although agriculture employs 77% of the working population, the economic prosperity of the urban centers is not shared in rural regions. Tanzania’s private sector plays a large role in the employment of youth, employing approximately 70% of young people. Tanzania’s strengths, including a record of political stability, a diversified economy with plentiful natural resources, and strong economic management will enable the country to achieve its goal of becoming a middle-income country.
Years Active
2008 – Present
Technical Areas
Financial services, market systems, gender equality
Primary Value Chains/Sectors
Oil seeds Including sunflower oil, Sesame ,rice, Horticulture, maize, fisheries, aquaculture and dairy
PIDERS’s work in Tanzania
For over 10 years, PIDERS has worked in Tanzania to facilitate market linkages, ensure that financial services are accessible, support women through business, and provide agricultural technical training. By partnering with Small and Medium Enterprises in the manufacturing, agriculture, and construction sectors, we are ensuring that they are competitive and sustainable.
WHO WE ARE:
PIDERS – Creating business solutions to poverty
Pro motion of Integrated Development and relief services (PIDERS) – is a National economic development organization that creates business solutions to poverty. For over 10 years, PIDERS has been creating business solutions to poverty that are sustainable, scalable, measurable and replicable.
PIDERS began as an association of six business people who believed they were called to be faithful in generously sharing their abilities and resources. Continuing in that Christian tradition, PIDERS welcomes all who share our values and want to join us in our mission.
PIDERS has worked in over 4 regions in Tanzania and has brings a unique market systems approach to project design that integrates technical assistance and access to capital. As an early leader in innovative finance, PIDERS leverages public and private funding to advance social enterprises around Tanzania that are positively impacting social, Health, environmental and governance challenges in their communities. We work in agri-food market systems, focusing primarily on women and youth in rural communities. Our success is measured by income, improved processes, increased knowledge, and the creation of decent work.
We believe that all people deserve the opportunity to earn a livelihood and that unleashing entrepreneurship is a powerful way to alleviate poverty.
Vision
That all people may unleash their God-given potential to earn a livelihood, provide for families and enrich communities
Mission
PIDERS – creates business solutions to poverty
Values
Collaboration: We value inclusive and diverse partnerships regardless of income, gender, race, class, ethnicity, nationality or religion. We build relationships of trust and peace.
Accountability: We manage human, financial and environmental resources with care and integrity.
Respect: We treat clients, colleagues and partners with respect and dignity.
Entrepreneurship: We seek sustainable innovation. We promote justice by partnering with entrepreneurial people experiencing poverty to attain business success.
Strategic Plan 2020 – 2025
Towards an Equal Opportunity I Tanzania
PIDERS’s Strategic Plan
Theory of Change
PIDERS’s work is built on a foundation of PIDERS business roots and faith-based values, within the National development context and supported by the Sustainable Development Goals.
We believe business solutions are effective interventions to address poverty. Through a market systems approach and strategic partnerships, PIDERS enables access to finance and provides business and technical expertise to build transformative agri-food market systems that create decent work, allowing traditionally excluded groups to become active participants in a sustainable economy.
Our nearly 15 years of experience have proven that inclusive, sustainable agri-food market systems are built upon the cross-cutting themes of gender equality and social inclusion, innovation and technology adoption, partnership and contextual knowledge, and environmental sustainability and climate action.
At PIDERS, we are growing and changing as we witness the ever-increasing pressures humanity and our planet are facing.
We are responding and adapting to help alleviate the impacts of inequality, climate change, market isolation, and exclusion from markets through our work to create business solutions to poverty. Social inequalities, climate change, inequitable access to economies and markets, and lack of foreign investment are challenges our world is facing. In order to respond to global changes with sustainable and successful solutions, we have a comprehensive plan that is designed to be intersectional in its solutions. Our Theory of Change directs and guides our work. It lays out how we create business solutions to poverty.
Sustainable economy.
Our nearly 10 years of experience have proven that inclusive, sustainable agri-food market systems are built upon the cross-cutting themes of gender equality and social inclusion, innovation and technology adoption, partnership and contextual knowledge, and environmental sustainability and climate action.
At PIDERS, we are growing and changing as we witness the ever-increasing pressures humanity and our planet are facing.
We are responding and adapting to help alleviate the impacts of inequality, climate change, market isolation, and exclusion from markets through our work to create business solutions to poverty. Social inequalities, climate change, inequitable access to economies and markets, and lack of foreign investment are challenges our world is facing. In order to respond to global changes with sustainable and successful solutions, we have a comprehensive plan that is designed to be intersectional in its solutions. Our Theory of Change directs and guides our work. It lays out how we create business solutions to poverty.
PIDERS’s is Creating Business Solutions to Poverty
Farm Entrepreneurs | Small & Medium Enterprises
Inclusive and Sustainable agri-food market system , Business & Technology
Business & Technical Expertise:
We provide advisory services and create linkages to build stronger supply chains that benefit all types of market actors
Innovative Finance:
We provide debt, equity and incentive financing to create more and better jobs
Guiding Principles for achieving impact at scale
Guiding principles for achieving impact at scale
o Gender Equality & Social Inclusion
o Innovation & Technology
Adoption
o Partnership & Contextual Knowledge
o Environmental Sustainability & Climate Action The foundation and motivation for ou
PIDERS provides business and technical expertise: advisory services and linkages for building and strengthening supply chains, including:
• Investment readiness, shifting SMEs in emerging economies from reliance on concessional to conventional finance
• Innovation and technology adoption for efficient and sustainable scaling up
• Gender equality and social inclusion for equitable business and supply chain operations that benefit all
• Environment sustainability to help firms and entrepreneurs adapt to the changing climate and engage in sustainable production
• Connections between agri-food market actors through networks, business associations and supportive platforms for shared learning and collaboration
THEN
PIDERS will contribute to sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth).
This will result in a variety of positive outcomes for:
Small-scale Food Producers
• Decent entrepreneurial work: for women, men, and youth, providing them with dignity, equality, a fair income and safe working conditions
• Progress: ability to transition from the informal to the formal economy, accessing better health care and education options
• Resilience: ability to anticipate, absorb, and recover from economic, climate, and social shocks
• Empowerment: access to knowledge and resources, and agency to lead one’s business activities regardless of gender, age, or ethnicity
• Food security: access to appropriate and nutritious food at all times
Small & Medium-sized Enterprises
• Operational stability: secured supply chains based on win-win business relationships
Sustainable, inclusive growth: business practices that create valuable jobs for women and youth, while investing in environmentally-responsible production
• Investment readiness: concessional finance, advisory services, and technology incentives to prepare for scaling up
PIDERS’s Theory of Change aligns closely with the following six UN Sustainable Development Goals
Context:
Recent statistics from the Tanzanian government highlighted that women in Tanzania play a substantial role in the economy. They work mainly in the informal agriculture and trade sector. While women’s participation in the overall labor force (80.7%) is higher than that of men (79.6%), only 4% of employed women are in formal paid jobs (compared with 9.8% of men).
Tanzania’s women entrepreneurs can create decent work and lift themselves out of poverty. Still, they face many obstacles that limit their ability to start and grow businesses. These obstacles include a lack of training, skills, resources, legal and mobility barriers, and discriminatory gender attitudes and norms. More significant economic development and better climate change solutions can offset widespread environmental damage. This ecological damage prevents farmers and pastoralists from gaining sustainable livelihoods (FAO 2012).
Opportunity
As men migrate to urban areas and technology becomes more accessible, women can enter the labor force, and in turn, support sustainable markets and improve the social welfare of families and communities. PIDERS will facilitate improved funding for lead firms and forge partnerships with companies, entrepreneurs, government and associations. These efforts can create decent work and reduce poverty for women entrepreneurs, farmers, and SMEs.
Strategy
Lead Firms (LFs) are the backbone of the Women project. These partnerships will facilitate access to finance for these LFs, where finance will flow into strengthening the LF’s business and operations, but also flow through to SEs, Women Entrepreneurs, and other SMEs within the value chain in the form of improved technology, training, certification, and formalization – all key to sustainably strengthening value chain capacity and relationships, critical to growth, market expansion, and inclusion.