Funding is available through four Windows of activity, detailed below. You will need to demonstrate to the Fund that your idea relates to the objectives/issues of one of these Windows to qualify. Separate Concept Note application forms and Term Sheets are available for download on this page.
Women are poorly represented in the sector and are often not well placed to benefit from growth and income generation opportunities. Where women are present they are often found at the low value end of the value chain in unskilled daily-waged roles.
Often, employers do not recognise the benefit of providing more employment opportunities, through the removal of barriers to women’s participation.
The Fund is looking for partners who will develop new ways of employing and retaining women workers, and remove obstacles to women’s participation in the sector. The aim is to explore and realise the commercial benefits of retaining women workers and supporting their progression through the value chain.
Window 1 - Concept note application form
Window 1 - Term Sheet
Publicly funded facilities for vocational training do not produce enough graduates at the required skill levels, while the private sector remains to be convinced of the business case for entering the skills training market.
Employers are cautions of investing in training for informal and temporary workers, while workers themselves do not have access to appropriately located, priced, and certified training services.
The Fund is looking for partners who will lead the provision of skills training to informal workers by private sector training providers – potentially through partnerships between construction firms, existing training providers and financial institutions to develop commercially viable training services.
Window 2 - Concept note application form
Window 2 - Term Sheet
The Fund has identified significant information gaps in the market that prevent the efficient recruitment of skilled and un-skilled labour by employers. There are no effective intermediaries for matching supply with demand, and the feasibility of providing such services is unproven.
The Fund is looking to support innovation that addresses these recruitment issues in that benefit employer, employee and sustain any newly formed intermediary service.
Window 3 - Concept note application form
Window 3 - Term Sheet
Construction sector BMOs often may not offer the range of services to their members, which could improve competiveness and efficiency.
Examples of services which the Fund would be interested in supporting include: accreditation/certification of members trade skills; market research and advertising/promoting their members; effective internal communication with members; advocating at local and national government level for the needs of their members.
We strongly encourage BMOs to apply individually or in partnership with a private company.
Window 4 - Concept note application form
Window 4 - Term Sheet
The construction materials supply chain in Nigeria is dominated by imported products. Materials produced locally are either low value added, low quality, or from capital-intensive industries which provide few direct employment opportunities. Additionally, greater use of indigenous building technology could contribute to increased development of affordable housing.
The Fund is looking for partners in the construction material supply chain that will lead innovation in development of products, processes, and/or affordable building technologies that provide employment opportunities, use local raw materials and local labour as inputs, can substitute for imports, offer increased quality, are replicable, provide opportunities for recycling or reuse, and/or serve to expand the overall sector.
Window 5 - Concept note application form
Window 5 - Term Sheet
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