Applications Invited for CAPEO: Capitalising on Earth Observation in support of IFAD operations

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About the Organization

Three quarters of the poorest people in the world live in the rural areas of developing countries. Most of them depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Climate change, a growing global population, and volatile food and energy prices have the potential to push millions more vulnerable people into extreme poverty and hunger by 2030.

At the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) we invest in rural people, empowering them to increase their food security, improve the nutrition of their families and increase their incomes. We help them build resilience, expand their businesses and take charge of their own development.

IFAD is an international financial institution and specialized United Nations agency based in Rome, the UN’s food and agriculture hub. Since 1978, we have provided US$23.2 billion in grants and low-interest loans.

About the Grant

This call for proposals is to select a recipient or consortium of recipients to receive IFAD grant financing to implement the project ‘Capitalising on Earth Observation Data to support Project Design, Implementation and Evaluation’ (CAPEO) for a total amount of up to US$1.2 million.

The competitively selected recipient can be a non-profit organization, private sector company, university, vocational training provider or research institute.

Main Strategic Objective:

• SO1: Leverage better impact on the ground for IFAD’s programme of work, including through improvement of in-country capacity for greater sustainability of benefits
• SO2: foster a more conducive policy and investment environment for smallholder agriculture and rural development, including at the regional and global level

Main Priority Area:

• PA1: Increased ambition on mainstreaming and other priority issues, and enhanced targeting of the most vulnerable rural people
• PA 2:  Strategic focus on fragility, conflict and building resilience
• PA 3: Strategic partnerships to enhance impacts
• PA 4: Enhancing performance and efficiency
• PA 5: Sustainability and scaling-up results

Main pathway supported by the grant (please select one)

• Policy and investments
• Partnerships
• Knowledge

How to Apply

Project Proposals (in pdf format) can be sent to capeo@ifad.org. The deadline to receive proposals is 30 May 2024, 12:00 (CET).

Send the following documents to capeo@ifad.org with “CAPEO Proposal” in the subject. All are mandatory for the proposal to be evaluated by IFAD.

Questions can be sent to the email address: capeo@ifad.org, until 15 May 2024.

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