Who can apply for the grant/Eligibility Criteria

Your organization can apply for a grant from the Fund if you support Most Vulnerable Children and you are registered as:

1. Non-governmental organization (NGO)
2. Faith base organization (FBO)
3. Community Based Organization

And if:

1. Your organization is registered in Tanzania
2. You have a constitution
3. Your organization has a bank account and backed up by a sound accounting system       
4. You have been established and operating actively for at least 3 years.
5. Have experience of assisting orphans and vulnerable children for not less than 3 years.

What we fund: 

• Material, educational and psychosocial needs (see Ops Manual)

   
  How Much we Fund: 

  Grants are awarded on an annual basis. Grants range from TZS 5mil to TZS 20mil per year.  Partners are allowed to use 15% of the grant for administration activities. SATF considers each grant an investment in the partners’ organization’s institutional growth and development

   

  What we will not fund:

  • Provision of scholastic materials to primary school children
  • Scholarship for Higher learning institutions
  • Any project/program whose direct or indirect beneficiaries are not Most Vulnerable Children
  • Construction projects

  How to apply for Funds:

• Implementing Partners are selected through either of the following ways:

  I. Call for Letter of Inquiry and Request for a Proposal (RFP)
  II.Solicitation of Implementing Partners in the districts

   

  I.Call for Letter of Inquiry

  Depending on availability of funds and donor’s requirements, SATF will advertise for the call of concept note from local NGOs and FBOs working with MVC. At this stage, NGOs/FBOs/CBOs will be given an opportunity to briefly describe their organizations and the program or activities for which they are requesting funding. Specific guideline shall be provided on how to prepare and submit a concept note. The call for concept note will be advertised in the local news papers and SATF’s websites. The short listed organizations shall be invited to submit a full proposal.

   

  Request for Proposal:

  Organizations in which their concept notes have been short listed will be invited to submit a full proposal. The organization will be required to submit their proposal according to the application guideline which will be developed according to program requirement and will be distributed to the short listed applicants.

   

  II.Solicitation of Implementing Partners in the districts

  Solicitation of Implementing Partners in the districts shall be done in collaboration with Regional/District Authorities and NGO’s network forum in a region/district.

   

  Process of Solicitation:

  • Introduce SATF and a program to Regional/District Authorities
  • District Council Authorities through its Community development/Social Welfare department should provide a list of NGOs/FBOs working for MVC in a district
  • Organize a meeting with NGOs/FBOs working for children in the district. The aim of the meeting should be to obtain general information of the organization that will help program staff to screen NGOs/FBOs that may fit to criteria for implementing a program in question.
  • Short listed organizations should be visited and should be assessed as described in the pre-award assessment of the applicant.
  • This process is applicable under the following situations:
  • When NGOs selected from ‘call for applications’ methods do not have capacity to absorb the grant allocated per year and there is a limited time for call for application process.
  • In the regions/districts where there is a great need but few/no applications have been received under the call for application method