In order to submit a Concept Note for the second tender of the SDG 7 Results Facility you must use this form.
Before submitting a Concept Note, please check the following conditions and ensure these are or will be met.

To be considered under the SDG 7 Results facility, an applicant should:

be an NGO or private enterprise;

have at least 3 years of experience in the renewable energy sector;

have a track record of at least 2 years in the country where the project will be carried out, or its surrounding countries, collectively referred to as ‘the region’;

be financially stable and able to demonstrate their ability to (pre)finance the activities;

have the relevant licenses for operating in the target market before submitting a grant application;

have auditable digital accounting records to verify sales and project costs to provide an audit report checked by an independent auditor at the end of the project.

To be considered under the SDG 7 Results facility, a project should:

focus on poor and vulnerable households;

focus on access to renewable energy for efficient and clean cooking for households and/or decentralised and renewably generated electricity for households;

promote access at specified minimum service levels as described in article 4.5 of the policy document for the facility: Government Gazette on SDG7;

be completed in a maximum of 4 years;

focus on one of the following countries;

be ‘additional’ to the target market and the usual business of the applicant, where ‘additionality’ concerns the extent to which the project can only be implemented when subsidised;

concern activities for which the requested grant is no lower than € 250,000 and no higher than € 2,500,000 while not exceeding 35% the project costs.

The form has 4 sections - Applicant information, Project information, Additionality and Financial Information. It contains a total of 43 questions. You will be guided automatically through the form.
All response fields have a maximum length that cannot be exceeded. Consequently please keep your answers concise and to the point, using indented points instead of full narratives etc as appropriate.
Your answers will be stored so if you wish you can continue and complete the form later on.
Having signed and sent the form, you will receive confirmation of receipt.
Only completed concept notes using this form will be evaluated and provided with advice.
You can only submit a full proposal if you have received advice from us.

The deadline to submit your Concept Note is 22 November 2021 17:00 CET.

Netherlands Enterprise Agency
T +31 70 379 80 00
E SDG7results@rvo.nl