Call for Service Providers : A Grand Challenge for Development WE4F

A Brief about Water and Energy for Food (WE4F): A Grand Challenge for Development 

Water and Energy for Food (WE4F): A Grand Challenge for Development is a joint international initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Union (EU), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).  

Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) is designed to address barriers to enable the production of more food with efficient and sustainable usage of water and energy along the value chain from farming to end-user, to impact food security, gender, and poverty reduction in an environmentally sustainable way.  

Together with partners and investors, the MENA Regional Innovation Hub supports mid- to later-stage enterprises to scale ground-breaking innovations that positively impact food security in an environmentally sustainable way. Supported innovations use less water and more sustainable energy to produce more food, protect biodiversity and mitigate the effects of climate change, while providing opportunities to women, youth, and the poor.  

With this document, the MENA Regional Innovation Hub invites eligible service providers to respond to Water and Energy for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development (WE4F)’s Call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) to become part of the pool of pre-vetted providers. 

Objective of the EOI 

To help WE4F MENA RIH identify registered companies or individuals who are interested in being included in a pool of pre-vetted service providers who may be hired to provide services to the innovators supported by WE4F between 2023 to 2024. Being in the pre-vetted pool of service providers does not guarantee any business from WE4F MENA RIH, rather it means that specific scopes of work via the Request for Proposals (RFP) may be circulated to the pool.