 Okay. Hi, okay. Hi again, everyone, for those who have missed my mini-introduction in the beginning, I am Charmaine from the Strategic Collaborative Fund Program of SEI Asia. Thank you for your interest in our call for concept notes and this is a great time for you to get to know what we do, what the regional policy dialogue is all about and this is also an opportunity for you to ask us questions about our project. So, I would like to start the program today by giving you a bit of background on SEF through our video. Don't worry, it's very short and this will give you an idea on what we have done in the past. SEI Asia, with support from the Swedish government, launched the Strategic Collaborative Fund or SEF program in 2018 to enhance the current 2030 agenda efforts in Asia and the Pacific. Our goal is to create long-term partnerships to enhance policy impact and institutional capacity building in Asia, under the framework of regional integration and the sustainable development goals. We also support the research policy dialogue to build more effective regional policies that contribute to the SDGs. SEF provides opportunities for multi-stakeholder engagement platforms to enhance regional collaboration across Asia, inter-regional policy development and institutional capacity with multi-stakeholders. In all the initiatives that we do or support, we make sure that evidence-based human rights and gender equality approaches are at the centre. We conduct direct coaching sessions with our partners and we also created online courses on human rights and gender. SEF focuses its outreach in Asia and beyond. We have a partnership with the Asia Europe Foundation, where we host sessions under the Environment Forum to share knowledge and build capacity for policymakers, businesses and civil society from Asia and Europe on issues related to sustainable development and climate change. We also support the China-Arsian Environment Cooperation Forum, which is a platform for China and Arsian to discuss environmental cooperation and policies for sustainable development. In the Asian region, SEF gives yearly grants to organizations to host strategic regional events that highlight key issues that are linked to the 2030 sustainable development agenda. The goal is to enhance regional collaboration and partnership to lead efforts toward policy development and regional sustainability. Through this program, we want to be able to influence public policy and push for a more sustainable and inclusive development in Asia. Now, to give us a better background on what SEF is, I would like to give the floor to the project manager, Jeb, who will tell us more about SEF and our activities. Jeb, you have the floor. Thank you, Shaman, for the video and introduction. Now, I will have a brief presentation about the program itself and will also provide some questions and answers that we received earlier so that it can recap before we will go into the live Q&A that you may already have in your mind. Can we start the PowerPoint, please? In between, my name is Bernobon Yung Yung Tham. As Shaman already introduced, I work as a program manager and also a part of policy team at SEI Asia. With the support from the government of Sweden, the SEF Strategy Collaborative Fund was launched in 2018. In fact, this SEF is one of SEI Asia flagship programs. The objective is to enhance the 2030 agenda efforts in Asia. Please go to the next slide. The long-term objective of the program itself, we have several activities under the program. SEF tried to promote the regional collaboration and long-term partnership among stakeholders for policy impact as well as we also aim to strengthen institutional capacity building of our partners through several activities. For example, we provide access to massive open online courses on gender equality and human rights and we also offer interactive learning dialogue with our partners. Through the program activities, we also integrate the right-bed approach and gender equality in our policy dialogues at all stages. So, we make sure that the cross-cutting themes focused on the gender on right-bed approach and poverty-focused are also mainstream in the thematic call this year. Briefly about SEF components, you may hear about our 2022 call for concept note. In fact, that is only the activity under component two and in SEF program itself, we provide financial and technical support to our partner for the inter-legional and regional policy dialogue to address transboundary environmental issues. We work a lot with national governments, policy makers. At you may already hear from the video or that, we work with the Chinese government, ministry of environment and ecology, as well as SEF members and also other partners like Asia Youth Foundation. We also work with private sector academic. Serious society organization and local communities about the call itself if we may go to the next slide. So, this is to demonstrate that our program SEF, we also align with SEI strategy. Our outcomes are lie in three area. First thing is about changing attitude and we will try to also influence behavior among stakeholders through the knowledge exchange and networking in our regional event support. And the second one is enhancing capacity. Apart from the financial support, we will also have like close interaction with our partner. We provide coaching and also like learning opportunity among partner organization. And the last one is on improving decision. This is also through the engagement in our regional event and also the tool that we will also provide during the discussion. As you know that this year we already launched the thematic calls. This year we have five and just to give you a back out, we started the regional call for concept note in 2019. We had six team and then in 2020 we had seven teams and this year we launched five first, but later on we will also launch a broader team on partnership. So please make sure that you stay tuned and keep posted. So quickly about the team itself. The first one is on the inclusive, this attitude reduction. The second one is on sustainable agricultural system and value chain. The third team is on circular waste management. And the fourth one is on the ecological system thinking. And the last team is on the gender and as you can see that the climate component is also integrated in all the team that we launched this year. This is just to recap about our selection criteria. I think you know about this. So just to explain the process a bit. Once you submit application, we will asset and evaluate your application according to the selection criteria. And then of course after this we will apart from our ACF team who will evaluate your concept note. We will also work closely with specific research cluster who will evaluate and focus more on the thematic. And now I will part the floor to Shaman. We will go into the session of frequent questions that we collect from the past few years. And if you have any additional questions, feel free also to put in the chat. At the end we will also open the floor for questions and answers again. Thank you so much, Jeb. Okay, let's get started. I think this is the part that you are all waiting for. So let's start to the first question. What is ACF looking for? What are the activities that we want to give grants to? And what are the innovations that we want to see on your proposals? And what are the format of the events? Is it a one-off event? Is it a series of events? And what kind of outcomes is ACF looking for? So to answer those, I have colleagues with me. I have Jeb, of course, that you have met just a few moments ago. But we also have Kuntumilati and Dimas Fauzi who will help us answer those questions. So any of you three want to take that on, we have four questions. So let's start with the first one. What are the activities that ACF is asking for with grants? Thank you, Shaman. On that question, maybe I will provide the general answer first. So what we are looking for is on the concept note that propose to organize regional policy dialogue for addressing transboundary environmental issues and support policy development. When we talk about regional policy dialogue or event, we refer to a broader theme. This can be one-off or a part of a series in the form of confluence seminar workshop. And of course, this is really up to applicants. We are really much open like you can propose in any format as well. But just to address here that, we will not provide a grant to the project activity implementation. For example, like if it purely serve training infrastructure activity, something like that. So because our focus of the program is really on regional policy dialogue. And as we pose in the selection criteria, please also make sure that you demonstrate our key cross-cutting theme on gender equality, right-bed approach, and poverty-focused because these three themes need to be linked with the specific thematic call as well. And I think in term of like the combination of how the proposed event should look like, we also encourage that the proposed event should involve with like little one stakeholders. So we want to make sure that we have diverse sector from government, private sector, civil society, and academic institutions. And it depends on the topic if it concerns community and marginal like people. So please make sure that you propose the approach and channel that can engage and involve with them as well. Okay. Dima, Terfuntung, do you want to add anything or should we move on to the next question? We can move on. I have nothing to add. Okay. Maybe I should add this as well as we know that we all got the impact from the pandemic. So in 2019, when we post the call, in fact, we aim for like in-person regional policy dialogue. But with the current situation, we understand that we have the travel limitation. So we are also open for like online and hybrid approach. Just as you see, it appropriate. And in term of the innovative and like how to make it more creative, not business as usual just about the confluence. This is also up to applicants. It depends. You can also like link it with tools that you may have or try to make the link with your organization portfolio operation. For example, in the past, we also grant an application that proposed to have like the list with young people used. And you know, it was proposed at the pre-activity before the original event to make sure that the fighting and outcome will be also like presented and level ed and advocate to the relevant policy makers. Probably, I had a bit on the innovation part of what Jeb has already mentioned earlier as well. So I think because of what of the focus of SCF2 is on the how we can leverage the voice from the marginalized and vulnerable groups. So I think these innovations, so the innovation can also reflect on how you can bring these voices up to the policy dialogue. And then it can be done through many things. And then you can just ensure that there is a pathway for the voices from the marginalized and vulnerable groups to be brought up at the policy level. It can be like the last year's implementation was they use social media as one way to leverage the group's voices. And also some of the granters also did community engagement directly with the marginalized groups so they can understand more about their concerns directly. So that's also one of some of the examples of what we, a lot of past grantees have done in terms of innovations in their proposal. Thank you so much, Deena and Jeb. Okay, maybe we can, if you have questions on this slide, please write it down on the chat box and we'll get to that in a little bit. But for now, we'll move on to the next question. Next slide, please. So a lot of you may be wondering what's the eligibility criteria. We have briefly mentioned it in the introductions a while ago. Next slide. There, who are eligible to apply for the grants, who are not eligible to apply, what's the scope geographically and what kind of organizations in Asia can apply? Can you submit more than one proposal and does it have to be in a consortium? And also with the organizations who are not necessarily familiar or working in the area of human rights and gender equality, will they even be considered? So these are quite a handful. So I'm going to hand it over to my team to answer. Thanks, Shaman, for the eligibility. For our call for concept note, we open to our type of organization either if you are NGO, private sector, academia, government agency, or civil society organizations. The only condition that is not eligible to apply is if you are the current SIDA Regional Program Grantees or partner because we would like to make sure that we will not provide duplicate financial support in that case. And when we talk about the geographical scope, I think we put it clearly in our selection criteria as well that the scope should be focused on Asian legion especially in South and Southeast Asia not the country level focus and when I talk about the legion scope, it's not only about the geographic scope that we ask you to propose at least three countries but it also refer to the content and beneficially themselves because we want to make sure that the issue that your organization would like to address is kind of a trans-boundary issue not specific to like one area or one country but make sure it also really went. On the question that you ask about if the organization are bad outside Asia do they are eligible to apply in this case we are also open to organization that are not like in Asia but we would like to make sure that you also provide the evidence of the regional level our list and focus if you are outside of Asia but your portfolio or operation your work is in Asia I think in that case it totally fine and then whether the organization can submit more than one proposal yeah we are also happy to review more than one proposal but please make sure that when you submit the proposal you submit only one concept note per team and we have five teams so in case your organization work in cross cutting area or more than one team so you are also free to submit more than one proposal Question on human rights and generality if your organizations are not very provisioned in these areas then it's totally fine as long as you can provide information on how you plan to integrate humans and human rights and generality into your proposal and then we do have specific section in the concept note template itself where you can try to explain how you plan to integrate those things and we also have provided all of the grant and also the applicants with the guidance on human rights which you should refer to when designing the project proposal and I think it's going to be really useful and once you are selected as a grantee of SCF2 we will also provide coaching and technical assistance on human rights and generality so it's short answer is totally yes if your organizations are not provisioned in these areas then you should definitely still try to apply and then just make sure that you integrate the whole human rights and regulatory into the event design and we can refine it and we can fine-tune once if your proposal is selected and we'll make sure that it's going to be mainstream in the event when it's implemented later on Thank you so much Yes, go ahead Whether the proposal needs to be submitted and the proposal we encourage all the applicants to have this consortium when you apply to the SCF grant because as Jeff already mentioned that we are promoting regional collaboration and also leveraging the network so we do feel that consortium will have the grantee to have to have a better knowledge and as well as our aim on being inclusive and then targeting vulnerable and marginalized communities and we encourage if you could also partner with local organizations as part of the consortium mentioned Thank you We have one question here from Moni Nong In case of an organization receiving a sub-grant from SIDA are they eligible to apply? So maybe I need to first check what is the grant from SIDA at the regional program that will be the criteria that we will not allow the organization to apply but if it like a grant from SIDA headquarter or some other program in that case you are also eligible perhaps you can also provide me like the name of the project that you receive the grant from SIDA and the name of your organization Thank you so much Let's move on to the next question Next slide please When to expect the results of the selection Next slide So you can see here the program timeline Jeb or D-Math or Kuntung you want to explain D-Math go ahead That's a better answer You have been a better person So we have for these years calls we do have two deadlines So this one is the old deadline for the inclusive disaster reduction So the deadline for this specific thematic call and TRR has been extended until the 25th of February So if your organization has already submitted a proposal to this thing before this deadline the 17th you are welcome to rewind and resubmit your proposal and then it will use the latest version of your concept note or proposal to assess So the new deadline is the 25th for the inclusive disaster risk reduction and the other calls the other four calls will have a deadline on the 10th of March and then please submit your proposal at 5pm Bangkok time GMT plus 7 So please make sure that you submit your proposal in time and we will try to finalize the selection process at the end of April and for the specific team on disaster risk reduction it's going to be sooner than that probably around a week or two quicker than the other calls given the earlier deadline that I have and the project or the event should be implemented between May and September 2022 and then in the initial stage we usually will rewind and then provide feedback on the concept note and how to better integrate the general human rights mainstreaming and other issues that we see from the concept note and then after that we will have a presentation of the event itself by the end of September at the latest So please make sure that when you design your proposal or your event should follow this kind of schedule and for the inclusive disaster risk reduction it has a different kind of like it has a specific outcome or a specific policy framework that you would like to tap on so you should also look into the specific thematic call criteria but generally the event should be implemented by the end of September 2022 and then the final three months or so at the end of the year will be used for the reporting and also the monitoring and learning kind of assessment so this is roughly how we are going to implement the SCF2 program this year and within May and until September during the implementation period we will be in touch every now and then to make sure that the event is on the red track and also it incorporates every aspect that we require since the beginning including on the measurement of human rights and gender issues that's roughly how it is so if there's any additional points from CHAP, Kuntung, Puy, Charmaine, any other questions from let me check the chat box Kuntung is answering the question text so yeah this is the timeline I hope you are already receiving our update from our newsletter or checking the SEI social media account or also looking at the website and seeing these kinds of information so let's move on to the next one okay we don't have anymore so I think this is your chance to ask us your questions if we haven't if we have not touched on that the floor is open please raise your hand if you want to ask questions and I will call on to you oh there's a question here can you please share the expectations with regards to mail I think maybe Tima do you have do you want to answer this oh the monitoring and evaluation right so the monitoring and evaluation we do have some tools that we kind of require to implement during the event but then when it comes to proposal stage it's relatively more flexible it really depends on how you design your event for instance if you have kind of in-person community consultation then it may be a little bit challenging like pre and post event survey with the communities probably the different level of literacy or other issues that may prevent the effective or evasion of monitoring and evaluation so and the standard way of monitoring and evaluation for SCF to projects would be to have the pre and post event surveys that's like pretty much like the general standard and whenever possible you should incorporate that and any of it like for instance if the event the specific event is kind of like a little bit difficult to use this pre and post event survey then you can suggest how you will kind of monitor or assess this event particularly of whether it's like through attendance or through photos or through something else or interviews and another thing that we do also for the monitoring and evaluation will be using the most significant changes so it's another survey but it's done after the event to trace how the participants actually take up the knowledge from the SCF event and that's for the grantee site but then from the SCF site we will have the race or study as well to all of the participants attending the SCF to funded events from all the organization or all the grantees but if you have any other ways of doing the monitoring and evaluation of tools and all feel free to suggest that but again the general requirement would be pre and post event survey and whenever it's possible you should do that and if it's not possible then you should suggest how to do that because we cannot really say like oh this monitoring and evaluation tool must be implemented for every single event because it may be the case that in one of the events it's not very possible to do some of the monitoring and evaluation tools and we can understand that so yeah we are quite flexible at this point on the monitoring and evaluation for the concept note stage but we will definitely discuss about it further when your proposal is selected okay thank you so much Dimas there's another question here the call is expecting to have participation of diverse groups such as for inclusive DRR indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities non-normative gender and sexual identities, children and youth at persons with disabilities it is difficult to have all at one stage so can we focus on just one or two of these maybe Kuntum you can answer that thank you for this question i think this is a very valid point because at times it might sound quite overwhelming but also as Dimas mentioned we have gender and human rights as one of the strongest component on our application so we do want to see how your event will address issues and how it will be inclusive and touch upon the problems that are facing by these ethnic minorities and indigenous people or marginalized you don't have to address all of them but you could choose like one or two depends on your event focus but we also want to see some kind of intersectionalities in it so i think when you for example when you focus on indigenous communities you could also focus on youth indigenous communities on women leaders on indigenous communities so it doesn't necessarily have to be different group and you could always explore the intersectionalities approach and in addition to that as Dimas mentioned earlier we do have a MOOC massive open online course we also have a coaching clinic so we will help you to integrate how to integrate all of these better in your event and also in your in your monitoring and evaluation as it mentioned i just want to add a little bit so what we've seen a lot is as you've seen the timeline that we have proposed and please learn this timeline and kind of like see it and then when you plan for your event make sure that your event match to the timeline that we have earlier i think what we've seen a lot is a lot of grantees has very interesting various events however because they are sometimes too ambitious or like not planned ahead and then most of the events cannot really get the impact as we wanted to see so i think the timeline that we've shown you is very important so when you write your proposal and enlisted your potential events or agenda also make sure like when are you planning to have it and then think about the monitoring and evaluation phase that you need and also the reporting stage and okay thank you okay another question here is it possible for SEI or SEF to chair a sample proposal may be one that got selected previously or another sample to further clarify and guide the drafting of this do you want to answer that yeah in fact we never shared successful application in the past because one thing is also we don't want other potential organization to kind of help the idea just for this scope because it's very open and in fact every year we also change the theme and topic may not highly relevant in your case and we would like to more like get the idea from applicants instead of sharing the successful concept note in the past so we don't really share that in addition actually if you click the SEF2 website as we already shared the link here you can click on the past events and there's more information on what our grantee from the previous year looks like so we couldn't share the proposal because I think it's also part of the confidentiality but also like what Jeff has mentioned most of the event actually reflect what your organization good at you know some of the proposal focusing on you some of the proposal focusing on intergovernmental agencies some of it more on training and grassroots so it really reflect what your organization and that's why if you have a consortium that will actually enrich your proposal and if you look at our website just you know read and then just look at the past event some of the highlights and we also have booklet and that might be helpful to give you a bit of ideas In addition to that we do have the concept note template and within the template there are the specific kind of question there are specific guidance on what we are expecting from each of this section in the concept note so if you follow that I think you'll be fine we try to answer as much as possible to the guiding questions in the concept note and then try to follow the guidance if you have any confusion related to the concept note please feel free to reach out to us and we will be happy to clarify the issues for you as well Thank you so much Just being conscious of the time we're nearing the end Does anyone from the SAF team have any last words before we wrap up We're good So I think as Timas also mentioned if you want to apply for a certain team make sure that you learned what's the concept note what we outlined there I think it's really clear so for example for DRR one of the objectives that they want to see is how you integrate your event with the Asian disaster risk reduction event that will be upcoming in Indonesia So make sure that you read like very thoroughly what we want to see as part of the outcomes and who is our target of the event and what are the policy pathways so I think if you can follow this then you know you have a big chance to be at least short with it Okay Thank you so much to everyone who joined us today If you have further questions after this little session we encourage you to email us at sef.fei.org or follow us on all of our social media channels and you will respond to you and all of us in whatever channel you chose to reach out to us So thank you again everyone for joining and we look forward to receiving your proposal very soon Goodbye, thank you Thank you everyone Bye, good luck everyone Thank you