Call for Applications: Wood Energy Sahel Project (Burkina Faso and Niger)

For this, the Bois Énergie Sahel project seeks to support the actors of the sector in the elimination of obstacles to the adoption of CPE solutions by working mainly on:

• The desirability of the product
• Confidence in the quality of the offer
• Physical and financial accessibility

Objectives and Themes

• The objective of this call for projects is to support companies in the distribution, marketing and financing of CPE equipment and fuels (including improved quality biomass stove, LPG, fuels from agricultural residues, etc.) through technical and financial support.
• This support will therefore focus primarily on commercial support, sales force and marketing-communication promotion and, on an ad hoc basis, technical assistance support for production and quality control. It may consist of, among other things:
  • The redesign/improvement/deployment of the commercial and marketing strategy
  • Sales stimulation programs including the restructuring and support for sales and marketing teams
  • The implementation of digital commercial monitoring tools (CRM)
  • Assistance in the design of innovative and adapted communication campaigns
  • The possible purchase of communication campaigns in parallel with the work carried out on the professionalization of distribution and quality control
  • Support for the possible hiring of HR or the purchase of supplies/equipment related to commercial and marketing activities on behalf of the company
• The project focuses on the cities of Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso and Koudougou in Burkina Faso and Niamey in Niger. The structures applying must operate in at least one of these four cities.

Duration

• Duration of the application window: 03/15/2023 to 09/15/2023
• Maximum project duration: 30 months (April 2023 to October 2025)

Criteria

• The Call for Projects is open to applications from all types of entities with a tax identification number (NIF): private for-profit companies, non-profit and non-governmental organizations, etc.
• The validated final project will be the subject of a contract between the selected structure and the BES project which will include in particular:
  • Activities to be carried out
  • Provisional calendar
  • Commitment of each party
  • Key steps, conditioning the following support phases
  • Means allocated for each of these key stages with establishment of a budget
  • Declaration of integrity – Commitment of the project leader relating to integrity and the fight against corruption relating to integrity and the fight against corruptionclarat
• The assistance provided to project promoters under the contract will not include financial transfers to project promoters.

For more information, visit Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA).