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Call for proposals smart solutions for adaptable communities and cities

Published by USAID Private Financing Advisory Network Asia

Feb. 17, 2017

**Join Us to Build Resilience for Communities and Cities**

The USAID Private Financing Advisory Network-Asia (USAID PFAN-Asia) is launching a call for proposal for Smart Solutions for Adaptable Communities and Cities. These solutions could be anything from apps on clean transport to pilot projects on climate-adaptable housing/buildings, water management, and waste-management.

Selected project developers, technology providers, innovators, and inventors will receive mentoring support from USAID PFAN-Asia with an aim to secure funding for upscaling their operations.

Project developers, technology providers, innovators, and inventors should be from the private sector, or be proposed as a public private partnerships, with a planned project in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Thailand, or Vietnam, and should be actively seeking capital upto $50 million size range.

Technical Focus: water management, climate-adaptable buildings/housing; climate-adaptable and clean transport; waste management.

Award for Selected Projects:

Selected projects will receive the following support from USAID PFAN-Asia:

·A session of group mentoring.

·Free one-on-one coaching for a total of 10 man-days to develop the business plan.

·Introduction to equity investors and/or debt providers and assistance to negotiate terms of investment/lending.

·Technical assistance (i.e. legal opinion, review of feasibility study and others).

Note: the above support is provided in kind (not cash).

Please email to asia@cti-pfan.net to obtain application document.

Submit your complete application no later than 31 March 2017