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Iniziativa di emergenza in risposta alla crisi umanitaria e ambientale in Somalia

Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS)SomaliaOpenGrant / implementing partnershipDeadline: 11 January 2027
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Country / scope
Somalia

Somalia — Lot 1: Beletweyne (Hiraan) and Jowhar (Middle Shabelle); Lot 2: Daynile and Kahda (Banadir), and Afgooye and its corridor to Banadir (Lower Shabelle). Each proposal must cover at least one priority district in its selected lot.

Application deadline
11 January 2027

Key Information

Call description

The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) Nairobi call selects non-profit organisations operating in Somalia to respond to immediate humanitarian needs, support access to essential services and strengthen vulnerable communities’ resilience. It targets Somali local communities, internally displaced people, returnees and host communities, particularly women, children and people with disabilities. Priority sectors include water and hygiene; environment, territory, natural resources and climate change; agriculture and food security; and health and nutrition. Priority districts are Beletweyne and Jowhar in lot 1, and Daynile, Kahda and Afgooye, including the connecting corridor with Banadir, in lot 2.

Project activities may last a maximum of 24 months. The signing of the implementing agreement marks the formal start of activities and the intervention duration, as well as the start of expense eligibility. The initiative allocation is 4.000.000,00 euro: 2.500.000,00 for lot 1, 1.250.000,00 for lot 2 and 250.000,00 for AICS Nairobi management costs. The maximum AICS request per project is 2.500.000,00 EUR in lot 1 and 1.250.000,00 EUR in lot 2, whether submitted by a single non-profit or an ATS. These project ceilings are within, not additional to, the respective lot allocations. AICS may leave funds unallocated if proposals are inadmissible or unsuitable.

Priorities and eligibility

One applicant route is for non-profit organisations registered on the AICS list under Italian law at the time of submission. They must also demonstrate humanitarian and relevant sector experience and the capacity to operate locally.

For a joint project, each member of the temporary purpose association, known by its Italian acronym ATS, must meet the requirements of the registered or unregistered route. The required pre-existing collaboration agreement for an unregistered organisation need not be with the registered organisation with which it presents the joint project. The application declaration also describes alternatives for demonstrating local operational capacity, including through established experience with locally registered partners or ATS members; local registration is not presented there as the only option.

Local or international non-profits without an operational office in Italy and not on the AICS list may apply through a distinct route. Instead of AICS registration, they need a collaboration agreement with a listed organisation. On pain of exclusion, it must predate the call, already be signed at participation, remain valid after the activities end and not have been made solely for this call. They also need proven humanitarian and relevant sector experience, local operating capacity and compliance with their country’s applicable law.

Each proposal must be clearly located in only one lot and cover at least one priority district. Lot 1 covers Beletweyne in Hiraan and Jowhar in Middle Shabelle. Lot 2 covers Daynile and Kahda in Banadir, and Afgooye and its connecting corridor with Banadir in Lower Shabelle. Proposals must focus on acute needs and weak response coverage, particularly displacement settlements and host communities, and list each intervention locality with GPS coordinates and total population.

Funding and application requirements

The normal electronic route is certified email, known as PEC, to nairobi@pec.aics.gov.it, with the prescribed subject and a separate notification to segreteria.nairobi@aics.gov.it. An established ATS normally submits from its lead’s PEC; a member’s PEC may be admitted when the lead has no operational office in Italy and cannot obtain PEC. For a prospective ATS, a potential member’s PEC may be admitted if expressly delegated in the commitment letter. Subject to those ATS provisions, an applicant without an operational office in Italy that declares it cannot obtain PEC may send ordinary email. Postal and hand delivery are also listed alternatives; their applicant scope needs confirmation.

Are postal and hand delivery available to every applicant, including an ATS, or only within the preceding exception for applicants without an operational office in Italy? The extracted passage lists both alternatives after that exception without resolving their applicant scope.

Italian is the official language of the procedure. Specified supporting documents may be submitted in English or another language; documents in a language other than English under this exception need a courtesy translation into English. The listed items include prior-project evidence, local approval, partner and required collaboration agreements, co-financing evidence, unregistered-applicant legal evidence, and the security risk and remote-management plans. This exception should not be assumed to cover the entire application.

Given Somalia’s security conditions, proposals must contain a security risk-management plan and a detailed remote management and monitoring strategy. The plan should assess risks and prevention and mitigation measures. Remote monitoring should specify methods, frequency and responsibilities, with structured communication between remote supervisors and local staff and counterparts. Where Somali civil society partners are involved, the proposal must explain their selection criteria and responsibilities. These plans may be included within the proposal; the cited passages do not establish that each must be a separate attachment.

The proposal requires approval or acceptance by local authorities or communities and/or competent ministries. In place of a local-authority acceptance letter, a formal expression of approval by the competent Italian diplomatic representation may potentially be used by agreement with that representation. For an ATS not yet constituted at application, a commitment letter is an option; the constituting agreement is subsequently required before the implementing agreement is signed.

The call supplies templates for the application declaration, project proposal, logical framework, activity schedule and financial plan. The declaration template provides for a signature and a copy of the declarant’s identity document. The proposal template asks for evidence of co-financing commitments where other funding is present. Reporting and contracting templates are also listed among the call annexes; their inclusion in that list does not make them application-stage documents.

What is the complete application-stage document checklist, which items are mandatory on pain of exclusion, and what electronic file and signature formats are accepted? The supplied excerpts list templates and exclusion grounds but do not include the full application-document provisions. This is a limitation of the extracted coverage, not evidence that the original call lacks them.

The application deadline is 11 January 2027. Late submission is a ground for exclusion.

Recommendations

Security and remote oversight have budget and feasibility implications. The call permits costs to ensure and improve humanitarian workers’ security up to 9% of the project-cost subtotal. The financial template says the sum of management budget categories B, C and E should be contained and proportionate; keeping management costs below 25% of the requested contribution is desirable where possible, but expressly non-binding. Cost the proposed safety and monitoring arrangements against the appropriate budget categories and ceiling, rather than treating the indicative management percentage as an eligibility threshold.

The choice of lot, sectors and partners should be made together: the call requires a clear single-lot geography, at least one priority district, an explanation of the multisectoral contribution and evidence of local operational capacity. Assessment also examines needs, monitoring and local relationships. Choose the lot and response on documented needs and credible access, then align partner roles, results, indicators and monitoring arrangements with that choice.

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Official sources

  1. Official call and application instructions ↗
  2. trasparenzanairobi.aics.gov.it - Call document (PDF) ↗
  3. trasparenzanairobi.aics.gov.it - Official call ↗
  4. trasparenzanairobi.aics.gov.it - Call document (PDF) ↗
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Source checked 12 Nov 2026, 06:01 UTC. Official documents and amendments determine eligibility, deadlines and award conditions.

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