Apply for GEMS4 £3.5 Million Grant for Your Business In Nigeria
The GEMS4 Enterprise Challenge Fund is a £3.5 Million private sector development matching grant fund
Growth and Employment in States – Wholesale and Retail Sector (GEMS4) is a market development project in Nigeria funded by DFID/UKaid and the World Bank.
EMS4 has been in implementation since 2012 and will be in operation until July 2017. The project is implemented in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna and Cross River states, though initiatives are extended to other states where impact can be maximised.
The objective of the Fund is to catalyse private sector investment in innovative, commercially viable, and inclusive business models that result in improved performance of the Wholesale and Retail sector, jobs and improved income opportunities for poor men and women engaged in the sector.
By improving private sector perceptions of the associated costs and benefits of innovating and adopting pro-poor models, it will encourage replication.
It is intended that the impact of funding given to an individual project will be multiplied by the resulting and recurring changes to perceptions and practices in the Wholesale and Retail Sector.
To Apply for GEMS4 £3.5 Million Grant for Your Business In Nigeria, The Funding Process are:
Pre-Grant Award
Grant funds are awarded to eligible projects through a two- stage competitive application process as follows:
First stage – Concept Note Application
Interested organisations submit a concept note outlining the innovative business idea for which grant funding support is sought in terms of its commercial viability, innovativeness, and potential developmental impact.
Second stage – Full Application
Shortlisted applicants are invited to develop full application proposals setting out a detailed business case for the proposed project. This is similar to a commercial business plan.
Post Grant Award
- Grant awarded organisations undergo a verification and due diligence process. Successful Organisations are invited to execute a grant agreement.
- Project implementation commences
- Grant funds is disbursed in quarterly intervals in arrears against agreed milestones and deliverables.
- GEMS4 conducts monitoring and evaluation of funded project.
- At expiration of funding period, grant funding support ceases. Projects continue to operate sustainably
This funding window will close at 24th August, 2015.
To Apply for GEMS4 £3.5 Million Grant for Your Business In Nigeria on or before the closing date.
Click here to Apply: http://www.gems4nigeria.com/challengefund.
Source: Gems4nigeria
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