The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) has issued a call for proposals to provide funding support to commodity development activities in its member countries.
(i) Social: Create employment particularly for youth and women, increase household incomes, reduce poverty, and enhance food security;
(ii) Economic: Enhance production and productivity, achieve higher local value addition; improve competitiveness of producers, producer organizations and small and medium sized industries; support the financial sector development;
(iii) Building partnerships: Build effective and cost efficient collaboration between producers, industry, governments, civil society organizations and other stakeholders for commodity based development.
The financial support for any individual intervention can be in the range of of USD 60,000 to 1,500,000 mainly targeted to for-profit organizations and social enterprises operating in commodity sector. The CFC funding will be 7 years (2 years for disbursement of CFC funds and a further 5 years for repayment of debt/loans/ repayable grants etc.).
There are more than hundred countries as members of CFC: Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau, Russian Federation, Algeria, Haiti, Rwanda, Angola, Honduras, Samoa, Argentina, India, Sao Tome and Principe, Austria, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Iraq, Senegal, Belgium, Ireland, Sierra Leone, Benin, Italy, Singapore, Bhutan, Jamaica, Somalia, Botswana, Japan, Spain, Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Bulgaria, Korea, Democratic , People’s Republic of , Sudan, Burkina Faso, Swaziland, Burundi, Korea, Republic of, Sweden, Cameroon, Kuwait, Syrian Arab Republic, Cape Verde, Lao People’s , , Democratic Republic, Tanzania, United Republic, Central African Republic, Thailand, Chad, Lesotho, Togo, China, Luxembourg, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Madagascar, Tunisia, Comoros, Malawi, Uganda, Congo (Brazzaville), Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Congo, Democratic Republic , Maldives, United Kingdom of Great , Britain and Northern Ireland, Costa Rica, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Yemen, Denmark, Morocco, Zambia, Djibouti, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Ecuador, Myanmar, , , Egypt, Arab Republic of, Nepal, Equatorial Guinea, Netherlands, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Finland, Niger, Gabon, Nigeria, Gambia, Norway, Germany, Pakistan, Ghana, Papua New Guinea, Greece, Peru, Guatemala, Philippines, Guinea, Portugal,
The deadline for submission of proposals is 7th December 2012. For more information, visit this link.
