The FoodTrade ESA Challenge Fund aims at stimulating innovative business models that deliver commercial benefits, solutions to market failures in regional food staple markets as well as jobs, income and market access for the poor and smallholder farmers
The FoodTrade CF will award grants as partial funding of up to 49% of the investment to companies operating and registered within the geographical scope of the programme through competitive calls for Business Proposals addressing market failures through innovative, commercial sustainable and replicable ideas within the defined staple foods value chains.
Various windows through the duration of the programme will be open for proposal submission during which applications will be assessed against the specified criteria. Each window will be open for a limited period of time and will be widely publicized, with successful candidates receiving a minimum GBP150 000 up to GBP1million per grant.
The applicant must be a for profit private company
- Each investment must have a regional focus implying that the investment must show some impact in at least 2 countries in ESA and possibly stimulate cross border trade i.e. an investment must not focus solely on ONE country in terms of impact
- Investments can focus on storage and collateral systems, input markets, coordination and information systems, services for cross border trade in staples.
- The funds applied for should be between a minimum GBP150,000 up to GBP1million
- The FoodTrade Challenge Fund will fund up to 49% of an investment. Once approved, applicants are then responsible for the remainder of the funding needed to implement the project in the form of a matching grant.
FoodTrade East and Southern Africa (FoodTrade ESA) is inviting innovative funding proposals from businesses– small and large— that are active in staple food value chains in nine ESA countries– Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi.
FoodTrade East and Southern Africa (FoodTrade ESA) is inviting innovative funding proposals from businesses– small and large— that are active in staple food value chains in nine ESA countries– Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi. Read More
FoodTrade ESA Challenge Fund
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