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8th Call for Proposals for Producer Organization-led Projects
https://www.gafspfund.org/8th-call-proposals-producer-organizations
Overview
| Donor: | Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) |
| Application procedure: | Online Application |
| Donor base: | United States |
| Reference number: | - |
| Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation, Social Business |
| Deadline: | 24.06.2025 |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Large - more than $1,000,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | 2.500.000$ |
| Total available budget: | 38.000.000$ |
| Funding type: | Grants |
| Maximum grant size: | 4.000.000$ |
| Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Agriculture & Rural Development
- Climate Change
- Economic Development
- Environment & Natural Resources
- Food Security
Project Locations
Africa
Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo
America
Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua
Asia
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Tajikistan, Yemen
Europe
Kosovo
Pacific
Kiribati, Micronesia, Samoa, Solomon Islands
Description
1) Objective
GAFSP recognizes Producer Organizations (POs) as critical actors in linking smallholder farmers to input, capital, and product markets. By enhancing the capacity and reach of POs, GAFSP aims to increase agricultural productivity and incomes, particularly for smallholders, while improving food availability and access for consumers.
The Eighth Call for Proposals continues GAFSP’s targeted support to PO-led initiatives. Building on three previous calls, GAFSP has already allocated US$80 million across 32 PO-led projects, helping POs improve their internal systems and service delivery to better meet the needs of their members. These investments aim to increase smallholder farmers’ income, food and nutrition security, and resilience to shocks, including those driven by climate change, economic volatility, and fragility.
2) Eligibility
For GAFSP, the definition of a PO includes national and sub-national POs structured as either a producers’ association, union, federation, cooperative, or apex organization (including umbrella organizations or federations of POs)7 with the following characteristics:
a) It is a local organization formed by a group of smallholder producers to undertake agriculture-, food- and nutrition-related activities, including storage, processing, and marketing.
b) Its members include farmers, pastoralists, artisanal fishers, forest-dwelling groups, landless people, and/or indigenous people.
c) It is owned by its members: PO members participate in the governance of the PO.
d) Its profits and other benefits are shared among its members; and
e) It is a registered legal entity.
3) Location
Actions must take place in selected low-income countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America.
4) Budget
The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) expects approximately US$38 million to be allocated in grant resources for eligible Producer Organizations (POs) through this Eighth Call for Proposals. The maximum amounts of funding per project are as follows: Grants range from $2,500,000 -$4,000,000.
5) Application
Expressions of interest must be submitted by 11:59 pm on June 26, 2025 (Washington, D.C. time, GMT -5).