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Project Selection Criteria

WHO Can Targeting • Rural communities
Apply For • Inner city communities
Funding • Poor, underserved communities and • Quintiles 1-3 and pockets of
vulnerable groups islandwide
poverty in quintiles 4 & 5
• Community groups (Individuals are not
eligible for funding)

Demand Driven Intervention Pre-Selected Intervention

Community groups / Sponsors • Development Assistance is
send in application forms to directed at communities chosen
apply for funding from JSIF through an inter-agency selection
process

HOW to Project Sponsors
apply for
funding • Organized groups and associations (referred to as sponsors)
make requests for funding. These include Non-Governmental
Organizations, Ministries, Government Agencies and community
organizations (Citizen’s Associations, Parent Teachers
Associations, Youth Clubs, etc.)

• Sponsors must provide evidence that the request is a
community priority need and sign a contract committing to
monitoring and maintaining the project.

• Sponsors coordinate the community contribution in cash or kind

• JSIF teams conduct a feasibility Application must meet the following:
assessment to determine viability • Request is a Community priority
of the application • Alignment with JSIF project menu

of activities
• Alignment with national

development plans & objectives/
sectoral priorities

Sub-Project Menu

Initially, sub-projects were primarily small-scale infrastructure such as construction or rehabilitation of basic schools, farm feeder
roads, community water systems, etc. While these still form a significant part of JSIF’s menu, there has been an evolution towards
more complex integrated projects (such as multiple infrastructure works in volatile communities), support to social interventions
(such as parenting, conflict resolution, etc) to accompany infrastructure projects, and socio-economic initiatives including small
and micro-enterprise support in agriculture and community tourism. Of increasing importance are interventions supporting
alternative livelihoods/entrepreneurship, employability and academic achievement.

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