Data-Driven Digital Social Innovations In Africa

Deadline: 21st May 2024

The Data Governance in Africa Initiative is a programme that aims to support a “development-oriented and human-centric data economy and society in Africa”. The Initiative is part of a broader strategic partnership between the African Union and European Union regarding Digital Cooperation and is seen as a key component of the Joint AU-EU Vision for sustained and sustainable economic growth.

Wehubit’s Call for Proposals on Data-driven Digital Social Innovations in Africa falls under this Initiative and is part of a larger collaboration with ESTDEV and HAUS, respectively the Estonian and Finnish development agencies, that are launching a separate, complementary Call with a different set of stakeholders in Africa’s digital & data ecosystems.

• Wehubit (Enabel’s Innovation Hub) focuses on governmental institutions and other “not-for-profit“ actors such as academia, Civil Society Organisations, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Social Enterprises.

• ESTDEV and HAUS will be supporting private sector actors through a partnership/investment brokering facility and capacity building on Investment Readiness. For more information, please visit their websites: HAUS and ESTDEV.

Funding 

• The total indicative sum available for enable Call for Proposals is 1.800.000 EUR, with Lot 1 (BE-funded) amounting to EUR 900.000 and Lot 2 (EU-funded) also amounting to EUR 900.000
• Any grant application under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • Minimum amount: 100,000.00 EUR
  • Maximum amount: 300,000.00 EUR
• Duration: The term of the action may not be less than 12 months, or exceed 18 months.

Eligibility

• To be eligible for grants, the applicant must satisfy the following conditions:
  • be a legal person; and
  • be a public actor or be a private non-profit actor; and
  • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and not be acting as an intermediary; and
  • Have already managed a grant (of public funds) amounting to 40% of the amount applied for. A certificate of satisfactory performance signed by the donor is mandatory and constitutes proof thereof; and
  • Have at one’s disposal financial statements certified by an independent body (audit or statutory commissioner). Those statements must not be older than 2 years.
• The co-applicant(s) shall participate in the implementation of the action, and the costs that they incur shall be eligible in the same way as those incurred by the applicant. The co-applicant(s) must satisfy the eligibility criteria which apply to the applicant itself, except that:
  • They do not need to prove that they have already managed a grant amounting to 40% of the amount applied for.

For more information and application.