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
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AGENDA – Wednesday, 17th November 2021 |
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Topics |
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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 |
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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 |
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08:55 EST 14:55 CET
09:25 EST 15:25 CET |
Presentations by International Foundations on their funding requirements:
Q & A with the most burning questions |
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09:40 EST 15:40 CET |
Presentation: Tapping Private Funders for Social Projects Linda Nemec, CEO, Partner4Growth |
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09:55 EST 15:55 CET |
Presentation: How to raise funds as a social entrepreneur? Sunghee Tark, CEO, Bean Voyage, Costa Rica |
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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 |
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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 |
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10:50 EST 16:50 CET |
Closing Deepak Adhikary Paulina Koschmieder, GIZ |
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Short Brief About the Organizations Presenting in the Event |
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Foundation/Organization/Promoters Relevance to the Theme of the Virtual Event |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Stephen Ovadje |
Stephen is the Executive Director of Chase Sapphire Acquisitions at JP Morgan Chase & CO. He will be summarizing the key take aways. |
