Call for Applications 2026 German Missions Micro Projects in South Africa Lesotho and Eswatini, The Micro-Project Scheme by the German Missions aims to provide financial support to NGOs, NPOs, and other civil society organizations working to uplift marginalized, underprivileged, or transitioning communities.
The deadline for submitting applications for the 2026 funding cycle is November 30, 2025. Any applications received after this date will not be considered.
Interested organizations should submit their applications and supporting documents by 30 November 2025 to: microprojects@pret.diplo.de
or, for projects based in the Northern, Eastern, and Western Cape, to ez-s@kaps.diplo.de.
Applicants are encouraged to carefully review the full details and submit their applications before the specified deadline to seize this grant opportunity.
Last Date of Submission: 30th November 2025
Overview
(Call for Applications 2026 German Missions Micro Projects in South Africa Lesotho and Eswatini)
The micro-project scheme is part of Germany’s overall development co-operation that contributes to poverty alleviation and improvement of living standards and that covers the basic needs of the poorest social classes, especially in rural areas. Each year, the German missions receive special funding to finance short-term micro-projects for income-generating and poverty-reducing measures not exceeding 25.000 Euro.
The micro-project scheme is aimed at providing quick and efficient support where no funds from government institutions, other co-operating partners or civil society organizations are available. All projects need to be carried out, funded, and completed within the calendar year in which the grant agreement was concluded. Funds CANNOT be carried over to the following year.
Priority sectors and regions
The focus of the support is on the following topics:
Measures supporting the Just Energy Transition
Local economic development/alternative livelihoods, especially in communities with phased-out revenues from fossil fuels, small-scale farming
Women’s rights, access to equal education and health care, women’s resources and representation
Anti-discrimination of any kind, gender equality, anti-discrimination of sexual orientation and physical disabilities
Applications from the priority target regions of Mpumalanga and Limpopo will be given enhanced consideration.
Projects in Eastern-, Northern- and Western Cape are coordinated by the Consulate General in Cape Town. If you are an organization from the Cape Regions or if the project is to be implemented in one of the Cape Regions, please submit applications and documents directly to the Consulate General in Cape Town: ez-s@kaps.diplo.de
Who can apply?
(Call for Applications 2026 German Missions Micro Projects in South Africa Lesotho and Eswatini)
The applicant must be a registered civic organization, conducting projects that cannot be financed by the responsible body itself, such as e.g: community based, non-governmental, non-profit or faith based organizations or foundations registered in South Africa, Eswatini or Lesotho
What kind of projects are eligible?
(Call for Applications 2026 German Missions Micro Projects in South Africa Lesotho and Eswatini)
Projects that constitute self-contained measures, i. e. they do not entail recurring obligations for the German mission (e.g. ongoing requirement to pay salaries or for consumer goods such as animal feed, medicines, substances/agents, paints, etc.)
Project examples to be funded: projects that contribute to a just energy transition, projects supporting women’s rights and anti-discrimination of any kind, , bore holes, garden projects, shelters for vulnerable children, construction/renovation of school classroom, income generating articles (i.e. sewing machines, tools/machines for a joinery or a locksmith’s trade, etc.) See 2024 project examples
Examples of projects not eligible for funding: Vehicles, private business start-ups, administrative costs and costs related to project management, travel expenses, stipends, any running costs, Air time, Data, banking fees, consumer goods such as food and medicine, land acquisition, ongoing rental and/or bond payments,
Projects supporting Government agencies, business people or other individuals in order to establish or improve their services or private businesses do not qualify. Projects that have already started cannot be funded.
Please consider the following aspects before applying:
Per project, a maximum amount of EUR 25,000.00 can be approved (the conversion rates into the local currency may vary). The applicant organization has to contribute financially or by labour (self-help).
Personnel costs necessary for implementation generally cannot exceed one quarter of the total costs
The payment of funds needs to be split into several smaller payments. The full amount can only be paid out as a lump sum under special conditions; whether those conditions apply will be determined by the German mission.
The applicant organization must agree on the publication of data about the organization and the project on social media platforms.
How to apply?
Interested organizations should submit their applications and supporting documents by 30 November 2025 to: microprojects@pret.diplo.de
or, for projects based in the Northern, Eastern, and Western Cape, to ez-s@kaps.diplo.de.
The following documents/information should be submitted to microprojects@pret.diplo.de (the subject of the email should state “MPF 2025: name of the implementing organization”):
An official application form, dated and signed by two persons responsible for the project, stating the project title and the amount of funds applied for, and containing the following information:
Complete address
Telephone number
E-mail address
The following detailed information of the project must be provided:
The exact location/address of where the project will take place provided the project will take place at a different address to the one already provided above about the NPO
A detailed statement about the current situation/problems the project wishes to address
Information of efforts that have been undertaken so far to realise the project
A detailed description of the development policy objective
Detailed information of measures that are to be taken in order to improve the described problem/situation
Own contributions, in money or by manpower
Estimated project time frame (project needs to be finished within the same year)
Declaration of possible follow-up costs/running costs (to be covered by beneficiary) once the project has been completed successfully, if any
Further documentation to be handed in:
Detailed financing / budget plan containing all costs (Appendix A – Fiance Plan)
Three independent quotations for each material and services needed to complete the described
project
Completed excel sheet concerning total costs according to the most cost-effective quotation (Document “Compared quotes”)
Example instalment (Document “Example instalment”)
Documentation of the registration / copy of the document proving the applicant’s legal status
Financial statements of the organization
Tax clearance certification
Certificate of Registration of Non-profit organization
A copy of valid Passports or any other form of official identification of the two persons signing the form as the responsible persons for the project. Three independent quotations for each material and services needed to complete the described project
Proof of ownership/ Title deed or a rental agreement for more than 5 years of the land to be used to fulfil the project objectives describe in the application form
Should you plan a project which involves children, you are required to provide us with a current/valid Form 30 for every person in contact with the children
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