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title: Application guidance GRCF
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# Green Recovery Challenge Fund

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## Application guidance

 

The [UK PACT](https://www.ukpact.co.uk/about) Green Recovery Challenge Fund aims to develop a portfolio of bold projects that address specific low-carbon challenges.

The Green Recovery Challenge Fund is one of three core components of UK PACT, and supports novel and scalable projects that are supporting the acceleration of the low-carbon transition. Projects must be focused on sustainable solutions in ODA-eligible countries; ensuring that they show measurable changes, promote social inclusion and inspire future programmes to drive climate ambition meeting local and global needs.

UK PACT works with partner countries, supporting them to accelerate their clean growth transitions, meeting the demand for high quality skills and expertise aligned with UK leadership and experience.

[Sign up for updates](https://www.ukpact.co.uk/grcf-guidance#register)

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[Application process](https://www.ukpact.co.uk/grcf-guidance#accordion-1)

The application will be a two-step process: Expression of Interest (EOI), followed by full proposal for shortlisted applicants. Only organisations registered as not-for-profit organisations are eligible to be the lead Implementing Partner of a proposal/consortium. For-profit organisations can participate in the call for proposals as partners within a consortium.

When the funding round is launched, applying organisations should register their interest and create an account for the portal where application submissions will be uploaded. Applicants should then complete an EOI application form for their funding window of choice. The EOI will collect general information about the organisation, eligibility information, project details and funding requirements.

Applicants who are successful at EOI will be invited to submit a full proposal. The full proposal will require greater detail about the project, including relevant stakeholders, beneficiaries, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) considerations, project risks, intended outcomes, milestones, tasks and a full budget breakdown of requested grant funding using a prescribed template – this will be made available to shortlisted applicants.

All applications must be completed in English. The following content is available to provide all the necessary support for completing a UK PACT Green Recovery Challenge Fund application:

- The Guidance Document
- The FAQs document
- Expression of Interest Template
- Accountable Grant Arrangement
- Detailed theme information

[View resources](https://www.ukpact.co.uk/grcf-guidance#guidance)

The template for the full proposal will be made available to shortlisted applicants. Should any further support be needed, the UK PACT Green Recovery Challenge Fund team will be available to provide assistance during the application process. For support, please email **[grchallengefund@ukpact.co.uk](mailto:grchallengefund@ukpact.co.uk).**

 

![Application Process Diagram](https://www.ukpact.co.uk/hubfs/GRCF%20FR3/Guidance%20Page/Application%20Process%20Diagram.png)

 

[Assessment process](https://www.ukpact.co.uk/grcf-guidance#accordion-2)

All applications are subject to competitive assessment to ensure that funded projects meet UK PACT's aim of supporting the acceleration of the low-carbon transition as well as demonstrating value for money.

At EOI, projects were assessed for their eligibility as pass/fail. Eligible projects were then scored to assess their potential for transformational change (interventions that catalyse further changes and/or enable faster change to occur) and deliverability (expected likelihood of successful delivery of the project).

At full proposal, projects are assessed on the greater level of detail provided for potential for transformational change and deliverability. Proposals are also assessed on how well they demonstrate value for money throughout the application.

Details of the scoring criteria and weightings can be found in the**[ guidance document](https://www.ukpact.co.uk/hubfs/GRCF%20FR3/documents/UKPACT_FR3_Guidance%20document.pdf)**.

In addition to scoring against the defined criteria, projects are carefully selected to ensure a complementary portfolio balanced in theme, region and levels of novelty. Distribution across countries is also a consideration.

[Demand-led themes](https://www.ukpact.co.uk/grcf-guidance#accordion-3)

For the 2022 funding round, we‘ll be focusing on the following demand-led themes. If you wish to find out about themes that we have previously funded, please visit our **[main page](https://www.ukpact.co.uk/green-recovery-challenge-fund#previous-theme)**.

 

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## Guidance materials

 

The following documents have been created to support you during the application process.

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## Application guidance video

Watch this step-by-step guide through the application process with hints and tips along the way. Please see below the chapter timings as a quick reference guide:

Chapter timings

00:04 – How to apply

00:35 – Registration process

01:18 – Selecting your call for proposals

02:08 – Filling in the form

05:19 – Navigation menu

05:58 – Homepage

06:32 – Additional help

## Sign up for updates

If you have an innovative idea that meets our criteria then we want to hear from you. Please register your interest to hear about upcoming opportunities.

### About UK PACT

UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) is a unique capacity-building programme. Jointly governed and funded by the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) through the UK's International Climate Finance, it works in partnership with countries with high emissions reduction potential to support them to implement and increase their ambitions for tackling climate change.

 

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