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CCLab: Expectations and requirements in a municipal funding proposal

Christian Zange
Christian Zange

Expectations and requirements in a municipal funding proposal

The event's main objective is to bring potential financiers - development finance institutions and foundations - to present the requirements they expect in a municipal funding proposal. There will also be a presentation by a social entrepreneur to describe the market research, proposal preparation and thinking out of the box ways like crowdfunding in soliciting funding and grants from the various agencies. In addition, the Virtual Event will provide an opportunity for the participating municipalities and their private sector counterparts to ask specific questions to prepare funding requests/proposals accordingly. 

The conference language is English with simultaneous translation into Arabic and Spanish

AGENDA – Wednesday, 17th November 2021

Time EST/CEST

Topics

8:30 EST

14:30 CET

Opening Remarks and Introduction

Ricarda Meissner, Senior Program Manager, Connective Cities/Community of Practice for Sustainable Urban Development, GIZ, Germany

08:40 EST

14:40 CET

Keynote Presentation:

Global experience of promoting local economic development, raising funds and engaging with the donors

Ambassador Scott DeLisi, Executive Director of Soarway Foundation/Engage Nepal

 

08:55 EST

14:55 CET

 

09:25 EST

15:25 CET

Presentations by International Foundations on their funding requirements:

  1. Turkish Airlines  (15 min): Abdullah Tuncer Kececi, General Manager , Kathmandu, Turkish Airlines
  2. Qatar Charity (15 min):      Moulay Abdelaziz Lemnari, Country Director, Quatar Charity

Q & A with the most burning questions                                

09:40 EST

15:40 CET

Presentation: Tapping Private Funders for Social Projects

Linda Nemec, CEO, Partner4Growth

09:55 EST

15:55 CET

Presentation: How to raise funds as a social entrepreneur?

Sunghee Tark, CEO, Bean Voyage, Costa Rica

10:10 EST

16:10 CET

 Time for questions, comments, and reflections on the format and information requirements

Deepak Adhikary, CEO, Frontline Development Solutions LLC, USA

Suman Timsina, CEO, IDI, USA 

10:35 EST

16:35 CET

Summary of the key requirements from the foundations while reviewing the proposals from the municipalities

Stephen Ovadje, Executive Director – Chase Sapphire acquisitions, JP Morgan Chase

10:50 EST

16:50 CET

 Closing

Deepak Adhikary

Paulina Koschmieder, GIZ

 

Short Brief About the Organizations Presenting in the Event

Foundation/Organization/Promoters                  Relevance to the Theme of the Virtual Event

 

1

 

Turkish Airlines Foundation

The Foundation has been engaged with the local destination countries in promoting tourism development. In addition, Turkish Air has sponsored many projects impacting the livelihood of destination countries through its Social Responsibilities projects. 

 

2

 

Soarway Foundation/Engage Nepal

The Foundation has been supporting Nepal’s tourism sector by sponsoring Accessible Tourism, Quality and Capacity Building of Home Stays in Nepal, and International Conference on Accessible Adventure; Education, Women’s Health; Post Covid Livelihood projects, Climate Change, Women’s Entrepreneurship and many more. The Foundation works closely with the local municipalities

 

3

 

Sunghee Tark

Sunghee is the Co-founder CEO of Bean Voyage, a social enterprise which works with the smallholder women coffee producers in Costa Rica. Bean Voyage has been able to connect with the Starbucks Foundation, Western Union Foundation and Canada Fund for Local Initiatives by raising grants through various innovative approach. Bean Voyage also won a grand prize from the Facebook on their social enterprise work.

 

4

 

Stephen Ovadje

Stephen is the Executive Director of Chase Sapphire Acquisitions at JP Morgan Chase & CO. He will be summarizing the key take aways.

 

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