Each phase is separately fundable and proves the next. The pilot starts at neighbourhood scale — small enough to fund today, large enough to produce bankable operating data.
Daily processing capacity, tonnes per day. Steps 2 to 4 are indicative.
The balance is covered by operating revenues, partner contribution and in-kind support.
Total programme investment across five years, all cost lines included.
Net financing need — the share to be covered by grant and blended finance.
Pilot-phase funding request, currently in active pursuit.
The pilot request is under 0.5% of total programme investment. It is the amount that unlocks everything else — it produces the operating data on which every later financing decision depends.
The main barrier is not the project — it is applicant type. Each window requires a specific legal status. A company alone reaches about a third of them.
Switch applicants on to see the windows open.
windows accessible with the company alone.
Real examples: EEP Africa requires a company; the GEF Small Grants Programme requires a CSO; the African Water Facility requires a public institution. Same project, three statuses.
Each phase is matched to a different kind of finance: demonstration grant for the pilot, blended finance for the scale-up, infrastructure finance for the final phase.
Infrastructure finance and blended instruments for phases 3 to 5.
Demonstration grant for the pilot and support for structuring the partnership.
Technical assistance on waste in Burundi and alignment with programmes already running.
Normative framing: circular economy, plastic pollution, the Lake Tanganyika basin.
Dedicated African circular-economy funding, suited to demonstration phases.
Windows with a mandated applicant status, which the coalition is designed to reach.