In order to benefit from Agencies’ support mechanisms, the stakeholder should provide these conditions:
- Current Support Mechanism:
The institutions cannot apply for a support mechanism in every subject or in every time. They can only apply to the Agency, which operates in stakeholders’ region, if it has an open support programme.
- Meeting the Criteria:
Proposer: The legal status of the project proposer needs to fit the type of institutions which is specified in the call document.
Activities: The subject and the activities of the project should be coherent with the priorities and constrains indicated in the Programme Application Guide.
Expenditures: The expenditures should be appropriate as indicated in the programme document.
- Application Procedure and Documents:
The project proposal should be in the format remarked in the Programme Application Guide. Project proposal form, budget, logical framework and other relevant documents have to be in this format.
A guided project is a project of particular nature that provides direct grants without calling for any project proposal, and the subject and requirements of which are designated under the guidance and leadership of the Agency in line with the priorities set out in the regional plan. For areas of priority designated in the Istanbul Regional Plan or as a result of field studies, Istanbul Development Agency is entitled to provide any guided project with grants as long as their operating model, partnership structure, ownership status and project cost are all set. As a part of guided projects, the Agency promotes partnerships of universities, public authorities, the private industry and non-governmental organizations.
For guided projects that are usually intended to boost how the private industry works, it is essential to;
•Build capacity for manufacturing and exports,
• Set good practices,
• Promote industrial diversity and specialization
• Develop, transfer or disseminate know-how, skills and technologies
• Develop a local financing pattern
• Promote partnerships between universities and businesses
• Improve new service and manufacturing organizations,
• Establish cooperation networks and a value chain
• Foster clusters
• Develop a new industrial type of infrastructure and organizational patterns
• Develop human resources in areas that regional industries would need
Technical support is provided by the Agency via Agency staff or via service procurement in order to increase technical capacities of local institutions and organizations. It does not include any type of financial support.
This is a call on potential applicants, the qualifications of whom are clearly set, to propose projects in line with previously-designated themes and requirements as a part of a certain support program run by the Agency.
Evaluation
Project proposals are subject to “Technical and Financial Assessment” right after they are controlled according to their format in the “pre-evaluation” process by the Agency staff. Technical and Financial Assessment pursued by Independent Assessors and Assessment Committee that are comprised of professionals who are not involved in the project preparation process. The main principles of the evaluation process are; information assurance, equity and independent and equal assessment of all proposals. At the end of the evaluation process, all applicants are informed about the results of their applications.
It is a gratuitous support provided by the Agency for the profit oriented real and legal entities’ projects that their qualifications specified in Programme Application Guide. Agency covers the interest expenses of the loans gotten from the intermediary institutions.
It is interest free credit support for appropriate projects provided by intermediary institutions.
