RFP: a Capacity Building Partner for the Catalytic Small Grants Program in Bangladesh
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves seeks proposals from consulting firms to provide capacity building planning and delivery, as well as grant management support, in Bangladesh. This work will be done for a period of one year 2016-17 under the Alliance’s new Catalytic Small Grants Program, beginning in April 2016.
Based on the pilot Catalytic Small Grants Program (CSG) in Ghana, the Alliance will roll out the CSG in Bangladesh in April 2016. The Alliance will select 6 enterprises in Bangladesh through a two day workshop that will undergo investment readiness analysis from which approximately 3 will be selected to receive both a small grant and capacity building support (grantee/s), as outlined above. The Alliance seeks a qualified firm (Capacity Building Partner) to provide capacity building planning and delivery and grant management support in 2016 for the CSG in Bangladesh.
More details on the role of the Catalytic Small Grant program and the role of the Capacity Building Partner is provided in the attached RFP. Any questions regarding the RFP should be submitted to Amit Antony Alex at aalex@cleancookstoves.org no later than 6 pm EST on March 22, 2016. A compiled FAQ would be provided to the organizations that have questions by March 24th, 2016. The final date for submission of proposal is 10.00 am EST, March 28th 2016 with the selected Capacity Building Partner to be announced by March 31st, 2016. The final proposal to be emailed to Amit Antony Alex at aalex@cleancookstoves.org.