Call for Proposals – Water Stewardship Grants Program (WSGP) Updated 20.12.2023

Public announcement

Call for Proposals (CfP)

Ref. No. FLOWS – 6636 – XK

Title: Water Stewardship Grants Program (WSGP)

Fostering and Leveraging Opportunities for Waters Security Program (FLOWS)

Background

The Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure (MESPI) through Fostering and Leveraging Opportunities for Water Security Program (FLOWS), financed by the World Bank credit (credit number 6636-XK), offers the opportunity to apply for grants for investments in order to seek creative proposals to ensure and promote the rational and sustainable use of water in the Morava e Binces basin.

Program Objective

The objective of the Water Stewardship Grant Program (WSGP) is to promote sustainable natural resource management, increase citizens’ environmental awareness, and encourage environmental actions that address environmental challenges at a local level. Through this pilot action will start the implementation of activities to achieve tangible investments in water security, agri-environmental measures, and demand management that all support to sustain resources, improve service delivery, and build resilience in the system. This will be done through awareness raising and investment grants.

Access and opportunities to apply for these small Grants will have: 1) Community groups, 2) Civil society organizations, 3) Individuals and Businesses operating in the sub-basin of Morava e Binces.

All interested applicants in accordance with this CfP of WSGP all eligible to apply with projects in priority and focused areas based on vulnerability to climate changes, through the following criteria:

To promote, test and demonstrate innovative practices to increase water security, leading to improved resilience to drought and flood;
To enhance sustainable management of natural resources that will increase carbon sequestration potential of in the project area; and
To raise awareness about water security and environmental protection.

For this (CfP), interested applicants can find the manual and the package of documents, at: https://flows-ks.info/

Financing

The value planned from WSGP for (CfP) is 0.3 million €.

Minimum amount of grant: 10,000.00 Euro,
Maximum amount of grant: 30,000.00 Euro.

The co-financing rate of the grants under the WSGP covering the total eligible investments will be 90% of the total eligible investments from FLOWS Project, whereas the applicant will co-finance the remaining 10%.

Duration of projects

The duration for the implementation of project proposals that are submitted in the grants Applications should not exceed 12 months, after contract signature.

Informative sessions on this CfP will take place as follows:

July 4^th, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in Viti, in the Municipality Hall,
July 5^th, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in Kamenica, in the Municipality Hall,
July 6^th, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in Gjilan, at the RWC Hidromorava facility.

Indicative call realization calendar:

27.06.2023 Call opening;

14.07.2023 Deadline for submitting questions related to the call;

21.07.2023 Publication of answers on the website;

27.07.2023 Deadline for submitting project proposals is until 4:00 p.m.

Annex 1_

Application Form

Annex 2_Budget Template

Annex 26_List of Delivered Documents

Annex 27_The Morava e Binces Basin

Small Grant Manual

Procurement package for potential beneficiaries of the Grant Program