Deadline: January 27, 2024
Applications are invited for the Innovation Challenge Fund – Ethiopia 2024. The GIZ HTCC Project will provide funding to innovative entrepreneurs and service providers through an Innovation Challenge Fund. The ICF will only support entrepreneurs and businesses that focus on higher tier clean cooking solutions such as advanced biomass cookstoves and electric stoves, or other innovative technologies that can significantly reduce emissions and fuel consumption compared to traditional cooking methods.
Applicants should target one or more of the following thematic areas:
- Technology innovation
- Business model innovation
- Pricing scheme innovation
Eligibility
- Be a legally registered entity in Ethiopia;
- Submit a detailed project proposal that addresses one or more of the thematic areas;
- Provide evidence of in-kind and Cash contributions;
- Be an organization that promotes or intends to clean cooking technologies / research / businesses;
- Must be physical established in Ethiopia and your project idea will be implemented in Ethiopia;
- Demonstrate how current internal resource and technical capacity of the enterprise provides sufficient ground to utilize the requested funding in catalytic manner;
- Request a grant funding amount within the stipulated range and technically capable to utilize the fund requested with proper due diligence. GIZ may commission external due diligence check on the prospective organisations to assess their legal framework and technical capacity to utilise the fund before having grant agreement.
Eligible Higher Tier Technologies including but not limited to:
- Innovative products: Products that have improved efficiency and performance from the products that currently exist in the market. The innovative aspect of the technology will be evaluated by the technical evaluation committee.
- Tier Level: Tier level three and above, including their efficiency and performance.
- Functionality: technologies designed for cooking and baking (Injera, Kotcho, etc).
- Fuel Type: fuelled by electric and biomass. LPG stoves are excluded.
- Marketable: technologies that demonstrate the need of customers and clients.
- Source: Locally produced and imported cookstoves
- Complement: Provision of after sale services and 1 year warranty.
- Technologies: electric stoves (injera baking,cooking, pressure cookers, water kettles, infrared & induction cookers, forced fan gasifier cookstoves), ethanol & advanced biomas.
Application
- Applicants should submit their applications via email to [email protected] and/or delivered/submitted physically to the address:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Energising Development (EnDev)
P.O Box 12994,
Yeka Sub-City, Gurd Sholla, CMC Road
Behind Tele office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. - In the email submission, include the following information: Email Subject Title: “HTCC Ethiopia ICF Application: [Insert Company Name] [Insert name of ICF Application thematic area], [Insert Submission Date]”
- Within your email body, include the following:
- Personal contact information of the applicants
- Background and experience in clean cooking technologies.
- The proposed innovation, technology, or solution.
- Explanation of how the proposed innovation aligns with any of the support pillars as listed above.
- Anticipated impact and potential scalability of the innovation.
- Resources and capabilities available to the applicant to develop and implement the technology.
- Attached with your ICF application submission, include:
- ICF Expression of Interest proposal
- Other supporting documents attached as annexes, such as organogram, company registration forms, company registration certificates, etc.
For more information, visit Innovation Challenge Fund.
