The Assessment of International Development Grant Applications and Evaluation of International Development Programmers

The overall programme themes are: Civil society development & governance/ sustainable economic development/ Health/ Education but with a greater focus within and across those strands on the following cross-cutting themes: Vocational training and education/ gender issues and equality/ enterprise development/ human rights & civil society development.

The Government is looking to put a call out for applications to the South Asia Programme. When the call goes out, there will be a 6 week period for applications followed by a 3 week period in which all applications will be assessed. Applications to this fund must meet the general theme of sustainable economic development. There are 2 types of funding available:

1) Maximum of £15k over 6 months for smaller, innovative or pilot projects

2) Maximum of £300k over 2.5 years for larger projects.

e.Gen’s team of experts are responsible for assessing applications and try as much as possible to match technical knowledge to applications.