Applications Open: Tadamon Accelerator 2025 for Food Security (Grants Up to $40,000)

The stability and health of both individuals and communities are directly impacted by food security, which is essential to human well-being. However, because of crisis, conflict, and climate change, food insecurity is increasing in many areas.

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), with an emphasis on community-based organisations, tech-driven CSOs, and social enterprises, are invited to address these issues through creative and significant solutions that contribute to a more secure future through the Tadamon Accelerator for Food Security, which is run by UNDP and funded by IsDB and ISFD.​

Do you work for a CSO that has a creative project to improve food security? Are you working in the State of Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, or Afghanistan? If so, you are welcome to become a member of the Tadamon Accelerator for Food Security and continue refining your creative solutions to build a more resilient and safe future with sustainable access to food.

Building on the 2022 Tadamon Accelerator’s success, this second edition is expected to be even more effective, fulfilling, and revolutionary!

Thematic Focus

Your project proposals should align with one of the following two thematic tracks:

• Track 1: Climate-smart agriculture
• Track 2: Tech for food, energy, and water access and utilization

Benefits

• An 11-week intensive online training program
• 1 – 1 mentorship
• Tailored, engaging modules and sessions on Business Model Development, Impact, Project Development and Management, Finance and Fundraising, and a Thematic Focus on Food Security
• Access to world-class experts and a vibrant community of changemakers
• Funding – grants (up to $40,000), a total amount of $850,000 USD provided to the best-performing CSOs.

Eligibility

• You are an NGO, association, social enterprise, INGO, foundation, cooperative, community-based organization, or civil society network.
• You are a registered CSO in one of the following 12 countries and planning to implement your project in these countries: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, the State of Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, or Yemen.
• You are a member of the Tadamon Community.
•  You must demonstrate proficiency in both written and spoken English, as the program will be conducted in English.
• Your proposal must align with one of the Accelerator’s thematic areas and contribute to the program’s goal of enhancing food security in 12 conflict-affected countries. The focus should be on improving food access and sustainability for vulnerable communities while promoting innovation.

Selection Criteria

• Project feasibility: Your innovative solution is feasible—it can be easily developed, tested, and implemented within 6 months of graduating from the Tadamon Accelerator.
• Innovation novelty: You leverage cutting-edge technologies, and digital tools, or introduce new ideas, approaches, products, or services to a target group or market. Projects that effectively integrate technologies such as AI, blockchain, IoT, or data-driven solutions to enhance food security, resource management, or community resilience will be prioritized.
• Established partnerships: You show a willingness and readiness to engage with local or other partners during implementation. Collaboration with INGOs is strongly encouraged.
• Scalability: Your organization demonstrates a need for the proposed solution/innovation and the potential to reach new target groups and markets.
• Potential for impact: Your innovative solution has a high potential for impact, which you can demonstrate through a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Management: You have a dedicated team consisting of at least 2 members with relevant backgrounds and expertise.
• Co-financing: You demonstrate a willingness and potential to provide a minimum of 1:2 of the project’s total budget, either as an in-kind contribution or as co-financing from external sources.

In addition to the above selection criteria, the following criteria will also be taken into account when selecting final participants:

• Gender: You promote gender representation, and to ensure gender balance, submitted solutions should be gender-responsive and/or contribute to gender equality. At least 35% of the selected organizations will need to be women-led CSOs.
• Conflict areas and vulnerable groups: You operate in conflict-prone areas and support vulnerable groups.

Deadline: January 20, 2025

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