Local partners possess valuable insight into their markets, making them essential to achieving SDG7. To support their contribution, TEA has launched a Technical Assistance (TA) Facility to help local partners access grant funding and maximise their impact.
Access to finance remains a significant barrier for clean energy innovators and enterprises, with grant funding playing a key role in bridging this gap. However, the competitive and complex application process can be particularly challenging for locally-led organisations with limited experience in grant writing. The TA Facility, delivered by EED Advisory, offers tailored support to help local partners understand grant requirements and strengthen their applications, increasing their chances of securing funding.
What is covered
There is no one size fits all model. The TA Facility is both comprehensive and bespoke to the needs of individual applicants, to provide support in areas that offer most value to them. Topics may include:
- Understanding and navigating common challenges in grant applications.
- Budgeting techniques.
- Developing key performance indicators (KPIs).
- How grant applications are evaluated and differentiators of success.
- Reporting requirements and compliance measures.
- Internal human resource allocation strategies.
- The role of networking in successful grant funding.
- How to measure and evaluate the impact of funding.
- Integrating social and sustainability considerations.
- Risk mitigation strategies.
Alongside developing a rounded skillset to target future funding opportunities, the TA Facility also supports local partners applying for current grant funding opportunities across the TEA platform.
Eligibility criteria
The criteria have been designed to broadly consider the following:
- Local partner criteria which comprise three categories of which applicants must meet two of the following:
- Operational location (Geographic): the organisation/business is based in any of the target regions/ countries.
- Founding/ownership: Organisation/business ownership structure is in line with meeting the stipulated majority (over 51%) ownership/founding by citizen/ diaspora citizen/ refugee, migrant or forced displaced person/indigenous people/communities in the target regions/countries.
- Networks and support: Organisation/business that is a network or organisation which provides support to autonomous national/regional network/organisations; supports and delivers to indigenous peoples/communities; supports and delivers to refugees, migrants and forced displaced persons.
- Registration criteria: organisations/businesses that have been in existence for over 2 years.
- Legal status criteria: organisations/business that have formal legal status.
The above 3 criteria are mandatory, and lack of compliance and fulfilment instantly disqualifies an organisation from proceeding with filling in the application form.
TEA’s definition of local partners:
- Organisations, businesses, entities, enterprises, academic institutions, and entrepreneurs that are fully based in sub-Saharan Africa South/Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Island Countries (which only operate in these regions/countries).
- Organisations, businesses, entities, and enterprises that are majority (over 51%) ‘owned’/founded by citizens, diaspora, indigenous people, or refugees, migrants or forcibly displaced people, of the target regions.
- Autonomous national/regional networks/organisations/associations/academic institutions operating in the target region. This can include autonomous organisations that are part of an international organisational, enterprise, network or institutional framework.
How to apply for the technical assistance
There are no opportunities currently open for applications at this time. To be alerted to the opening of the next application window, and to be kept informed of future opportunities, we recommend registering your interest using the form below.
*Please note that receiving the technical assistance does not guarantee success in securing grants. Grant funding will be awarded by relevant selection committees upon their review of the proposal, which is independent from the Technical Assistance Facility. At no point will the review panels be aware of which applicants have applied for/or received the TA support.
For any questions or enquiries about the TEA technical assistance facility, contact: tealocalpartnerships@eedadvisory.com
TA Facility Webinars
As part of the TA Facility, EED Advisory has developed two webinars to equip local partners with essential knowledge of the grant application process.
Watch the webinar recordings below:
Webinar 1: Developing compelling proposals for grant funding: Insights and advice from the Transforming Energy Access Technical Assistance Facility -webinar series (Part 1 of 2)
Hear insights from Dr. Benjamin Robbinson, an expert on action and policy-based projects across the humanitarian and wider international development energy – on effective and responsive grant proposal writing.
Webinar 2: Navigating the grant application process: Insights and advice from the Transforming Energy Access Technical Assistance Facility – webinar series (Part 2 of 2)
Hear guidance from Dr. Tedd Moya, Director at EED Advisory and an accomplished legal and policy expert specialising in international energy law, climate finance, and energy transitions – on the strategies that local partners can adopt during the grant application process.