Proposal phase for IKI Medium Grants Grants projects

The selection of ideas for future IKI Medium projects takes place in two stages. Promising outlines that have been reviewed and chosen for the proposal stage are requested to submit a detailed project proposal.

To ensure that all formal requirements for the submitted project proposal are met, the IKI Office at Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft gGmbH (ZUG) provides advice and assistance to applicants on technical, administrative and process-related questions.

Contact

IKI Office
Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH
Stresemannstraße 69-71

10963 Berlin

iki-office@z-u-g.org

Process graphic of the application phase of the IKI Medium Grants. All information is explained in the text below the graphic.
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Process steps of the proposal phase of the IKI Medium Grants. It should be noted that the times given are target values. The actual processing times depend on various factors, such as the need for additional requests by the IKI Office at ZUG for the submitted proposals, compliance with feedback deadlines, etc. This may extend the review process and delay the possible date of approval/commissioning.

The application for implementing the project must be received in the form of a detailed project proposal by the IKI Office at ZUG within ten weeks of the initial request.

The IKI Office at ZUG reviews the proposal. The applicant submitting organisations will be informed in writing about the result.

An IKI Medium Grants project enters the implementation phase after the detailed proposal is approved. To ensure that the financial resources can be provided to the project, each of the lead organisations sets a sub grant agreement with their partners. This sub grant agreement governs the general terms of cooperation between the individual partners and the lead organisation during the implementation phase of the project.

IKI Medium Grants projects are implemented in many different countries. The Federal Government and partner country governments must work to safeguard the implementation phase. The German Governments send policy letters with this information to their contacts for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (for biodiversity projects) in the partner governments. To achieve this, the IKI Office at ZUG requires a short project description, which must be submitted by the implementing organisation within four weeks, from the date they receive the request to submit a detailed project proposal.

IKI Safeguards and IKI Gender Strategy

Fairness is one of the IKI’s core values. To ensure fairness is put into practice and implemented in each project, the IKI has a number of instruments at its disposal, which must be considered when preparing a proposal.

One of these instruments is the IKI Safeguards, which aims to ensure that IKI Medium Grants projects comply with international environmental and social standards, while also minimising or mitigating negative impacts on the environment and human communities. The exclusion criteria contained in the IKI Safeguards also clearly indicates the specific topic areas not funded by the IKI.

Gender justice is also vital at the IKI: all IKI Medium Grants projects must now be oriented in a way that prevents gender based biases and discrimination. The potential offered by all stakeholders must be utilised to help improve climate action and conserve biodiversity.

Complaint mechanism

The independent complaint mechanism at IKI aims to provide a means for people who (could potentially) suffer negative social or environmental consequences as a result of IKI Medium Grants projects or wish to report the improper use of funds to disclose their complaints in a protected setting and  get support. In particular, IKI Medium Grants implementation organisations must publicise this complaint mechanism as part of their project organisation, providing appropriate information to their target groups and communities in the project region, and must also cooperate in the event of any investigations. For the proposal phase, this means you will be required to state entry points for integrating these measures into the project timetable.

Policy for handling of mitigation credits in the IKI

Carbon markets make it possible to implement climate protection measures as efficiently as possible by trading emission reduction credits. The German government therefore considers the use of market-based instruments to be an important approach in the fight against climate change. IKI funds can and should be used to promote quality and transparency in the carbon market and to acquire private capital for scaling up IKI projects. However, in order to ensure a clear separation between ODA-eligible climate finance in the context of IKI projects and the compliance and voluntary carbon market, certain requirements must be met. Compliance with the requirements is ensured by the policy on the handling of emission reduction credits in the IKI.

For details on all relevant aspects for the proposal, please visit the specific information pages as listed here

If questions arise on individual topics, please get in touch with a designated contact at the ZUG IKI Office.

Templates

You will need these templates in order to submit a proposal. Where available, these will be provided in English, so as to ensure that all implementing partners are equally involved in the proposal phase.

If questions arise on individual topics, please get in touch with a designated contact at the ZUG IKI Office.

Guidelines

These guiding documents ensure that all important aspects for a successful IKI project have been properly covered in the proposal phase.

Links

Easy Online Application Platform (The use of the Easy Online Application Platform is only obligatory for German grant recipients)

General Auxiliary Provisions for Grants for Project Funding (ANBest-P) (German)

IKI Guidelines Communication Obligations and Channels for IKI Projects

IKI Corona FAQs

 

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