Call summary :

The grant, and therefore the Project, must demonstrate complementary, leverage and additionality to other sources of support, alongside domestic priorities, resources and other funding. In line with SHFs overall strategic objectives, the Project seeks to provide proof of concept, through market-based innovation, services,
business models and technology.

The specific objectives the Project are:
1. To improve public health, including reducing cholera, through increasing access to on-site/off-grid safely managed sanitation and hygiene facilities for vulnerable populations: The Project will increase access to safely managed sanitation and hygiene facilities, in secondary towns and cholera hotspots in Nigeria and will promote City-wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) approaches.
2. To contribute to a thriving sanitation economy and specifically shorten the sanitation value chain:
The project will help bring safely managed sanitation and hygiene solutions closer to communities, reducing transactions and making these services more accessible, reliable and affordable. This will include but not be limited to, solutions that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of faecal sludge management including collection, transportation, treatment, and disposal.
3. To progress climate-smart and waste to energy solutions in the sanitation value chain: The Project will provide solutions, where acceptable, to advance the reuse of human waste, for example, deploying simple transformation technologies that combine human waste and other agricultural waste streams to produce a
solid biomass fuel.
4. To advance women’s economic empowerment, including through participation in the local sanitation economy: The Project will integrate strategies to build SMEs that secure the participation of women as leaders, entrepreneurs, employees and informed consumers in the sanitation economy. The Project will also seek to demonstrate the link between women’s access to safely managed sanitation and hygiene and greater access to economic empowerment.

Scope of the grant/funding
The Project will be implemented in Nigeria. The states, secondary towns and specific populations will be negotiated as part of the Call for Proposal process, and in agreement with the Federal Government, whilst ensuring alignment with SHFs broader country engagement. The following elements are within the scope of the Project:
- market-based approaches to on-site/off-grid safely managed sanitation and hygiene
- City-wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS)
- the reduction of cholera and other WASH related diseases
- secondary/small towns; high density; urban poor
- market-based safely managed sanitation and hygiene solutions that adequately serve bottom of the pyramid / lower wealth quintile consumers and vulnerable populations
- climate-smart and gender-smart principles and solutions
- waste to value solutions
- women’s economic empowerment, job creation, entrepreneurship, SMEs
- sanitation economy market shaping
- sanitation value chain efficiencies
- value for money and ability to scale

Grant/funding available
SHF/UN plans to provide a 30 month standard UNOPS (grant support) agreement to the selected applicant.
Amount: $2,500,000

Eligibility

The following categories of applicants are eligible to apply under this Call for Proposals:
- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)/non-profit organisations
- Non-UN intergovernmental organization

Applicant country of registration
All applicants are required to meet the regulations and requirements of local authorities. INGO registered outside the country of implementation, with local branch/office are required to indicate and demonstrate their formal registration in the country (Nigeria).
The applicant shall not fall under any of the conditions listed in the Instructions to Applicants, Article 1, which makes the applicant ineligible for this grant/funding.