Submission period

Friday 27 August, 2021 - Sunday 12 September, 2021

Description

Climate Smart Cities Challenge: Technical support to challenge definition, innovation competition, communications and provision of an innovation management platform.

Size of Grant:                        Up to USD 92,000

Submission Deadline:          12 September 2021, 6pm East Africa Time

Submission:                          Applicants shall submit their CFP response by email until the specified deadline above to the attention of Pontus Westerberg to this e-mail address: pontus.westerberg@un.org.

Region/Country: Global, with special focus on the cities of Bogotá, Bristol, Curitiba and Makindye Ssabagabo

Purpose of the Call for Proposals

The purpose of the Call for Proposals is to solicit proposals from interested non-profit and/or civil society organizationsto provide technical support the project “Climate Smart Cities Challenge’, a city-based open innovation initiative that invites technologists, businesses, innovators and investors to develop, test and scale cutting-edge solutions in a specific city or set of cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to making these cities more climate smart. UN-Habitat is working with the cities of Bogotá (Colombia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Curitiba (Brazil) and Makindye Ssabagabo (Uganda) to develop a deep understanding of stakeholder and community needs, climate challenges faced by the city and set incentives to identify innovative climate smart solutions.

We are now looking for a non-profit organization to lead the innovation competition phase of the project. Applicant organizations should wish to participate as a partner in the Climate Smart Cities Challenge and should be able to contribute complementary in-kind resources (human resources, knowledge, funds, in-kind contributions, supplies and/or equipment) to achieve the common objectives of the project as outlined below and subsequently agreed in an Agreement of Cooperation between UN-Habitat and the organization. This call for proposals is addressing organizations that are specialized to carry out innovation management, challenge-driven innovation, challenge prizes and communications and who can take the lead on the innovation competition, including the following:

• Develop challenge competition briefs, including eligibility criteria, selection criteria and review/scoring processes. Lead an outreach campaign to solicit high-quality proposals from innovators globally, including from the four countries Brazil, Colombia, Uganda and United Kingdom.
• Provide an innovation management platform/website that can solicit applications from innovators, including website copy, application forms, guidelines for submission, terms and conditions, competition criteria, challenge brief summaries and innovator profiles for announcement.