Call for Proposals - Scaling Investable Solutions for Water and Ocean Resilience”

Please provide the full legal name and form of your institution (name, legal form)

Please provide the name of your main contact person for this CfP (surname, first name)

Please provide the e-mail address of your main contact person. Please note all further communication related to this CfP will be directed towards this email.

Please provide the full phone number of your main contact person (including the country code (+XX)

Please provide the title of your proposed fund

Please confirm the Certificate of Incorporation or Articles/Statutes/Bylaws is provided in the submission

Please select the primary SDGs that your financial innovation is targeting (you can select multiple SDGs)

Please indicate the geographical target region(s) of your financial innovation (you can select multiple regions). Please note that solutions must exclusively focus on the DAC list of ODA countries.

Please confirm activities target countries on the DAC List of ODA recipients (LICs/LDCs encouraged)

Please confirm that the organization is not a Development Finance Institution (DFI), Multilateral Development Bank (MDB), International Finance Institutio (IFI), UN agency, or an individual (natural person)

Please confirm that target fund size is larger than US$ 20 million.

Please provide the fund asset class

Has your fund already completed its first close?

If the answer to the previous question was No, for when is the first close planned? Please provide your answer in terms of Quarter and Year (e.g. Q3 2025)

Please confirm that the proposed fund manager commitment is at least 1% at all time.

Please confirm that the proposed fund's lifetime is equal to or less than 12 years. If the fund is structured as evergreen, please confirm that SIFI will receive its invested capital within 12 years.

Please confirm that the proposed fund’s environmental and social (E&S) standards meet at least the IFC Performance Standards and the ILO Fundamental Conventions

Confirm that you have blended financial structure with a first loss component.

Confirm whether you have other first-loss investors? Please clarify if you have first-loss investor commitments or are in discussions

What is the minimum viable investment you would require from SIFI?

Please confirm that you meet the Minimum Assets under Management (AuM) requirement of USD 50 million, either within the current fund or through previous senior asset management roles.

Please confirm that the management team has a minimum of 10 years of senior level experience in asset management or other relevant roles?

Please confirm that, should the fund be shortlisted, all documentation has been updated within the past 12 months.

Please confirm the Technical Proposal and Financial Model have been uploaded on the SIFI portal before the deadline of 12 March 2026 at 12:00pm CET.

Please confirm the Technical Proposal is submitted as one consolidated PDF file (max 10 MB)

Please confirm All Forms (F1-F6 an F9-F11) have been included and signed as part of the Technical Proposal enveloppe

Please confirm the Technical Proposal does not exceed 10 pages (excluding annexes and forms)

Please confim that the Annexes are uploaded in the Technical Proposal Enveloppe as an Annex and include, (a) Team CVs, (b) Pipeline, (c) Investment Track Record, (d)Investor Presentation, (e ) Theory of Change and (f) Impact Framework, (g) Capital Structure and (h) SIFI's Role and (i) Fundraising Status Overview

Please confirm the Financial Proposal is submitted as an Excel

Please upload you technical proposal (incl. Annexes and Forms - file should not exceed 10 MB)

Please upload your financial model (this should be an excel and not exceed 10 MB)

Below you can upload your pitchdeck - this is optional and will not be part of the evaluation (PDF, max 10 MB)