Call for ISF partners in Ethiopia at International Solidarity Foundation

The International Solidarity Foundation (ISF) is launching a call for local implementing partners. The purpose of the call is to identify and select local partners to implement ISF country development programme in Ethiopia.

The International Solidarity Foundation (ISF) is a Finnish development organization, founded in 1970. ISF development programme 2022-25 aims to prevent harmful practices and violence against women and girls (VAWG) and improve women’s livelihood resilience in Kenya, Somaliland and the Somali region in Ethiopia. ISF’s Theory of Change describes in more detail the change that it seeks to achieve to gendered constraints to women’s livelihoods and bodily integrity.

The International Solidarity Foundation (ISF) is launching a call for local partners to implement ISF development programme in the Somali region of Ethiopia.

ISF’s operating model is based on partner-led development projects. ISF’s partners are diverse actors, including member-based private sector actors (e.g. cooperatives), local NGOs, community-based organizations and networks/umbrella organizations. Partners can also be educational/research institutions, religious entities and/or multi-stakeholder consortiums. Selected partners must be registered and have operated in Ethiopia for at least five years.

Partners are responsible for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the projects that should align with both the ISF programme and partners’ own programme and organizational strategy.

Project ideas should be presented for four years (2024–27) with a maximum budget of 100,000 euros per year. This is an indicative budget, provided only to facilitate the preparation of concept notes. Final budgets will be agreed during the ca. 6 months long project planning phase (starting earliest on October 2023) and can vary from the indicative amount.