Applications Invited for Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) 26th Call for Proposals

About the Organization

The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) is an autonomous intergovernmental monetary establishment established throughout the framework of the United Nations. The Agreement Establishing the Common Fund for Commodities was negotiated within the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 1976 to 1980 and have become efficient in 1989. The first commodity improvement challenge was authorised in 1991.

Our Mission: To contribute to poverty alleviation by strengthening the income-generating capability of commodity producers and mitigating vulnerability to their financial nicely being.

Our Vision: To strengthen and diversify the commodity sector in growing international locations and rework it to be a serious contributor to poverty alleviation and sustained financial development and improvement.

About the Grant

The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) invites functions for monetary help from initiatives that goal to remodel commodity worth chains and uplift smallholder and SME-based enterprises in CFC member international locations. The CFC offers quite a lot of monetary and technical help choices to empower SMEs, cooperatives, International Commodity Bodies (ICBs), and different establishments, significantly these led by or supporting girls in agriculture.

Our mission is to alleviate poverty and create sustainable livelihoods in commodity-dependent communities, with a robust emphasis on supporting the poorest and most susceptible within the world worth chains, together with in areas of manufacturing, processing, financing, advertising and marketing, and R&D. Successful functions ought to show tangible, sustainable impacts on the lives of low-income populations who rely upon commodities, with specific give attention to feminine smallholders and women-led enterprises.

The CFC is especially concerned about proposals from Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), to maximise poverty alleviation within the growing world. In line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we’re dedicated to advancing gender equality, selling local weather motion, and supporting resilient economies by closing the financial alternative hole for girls and guaranteeing that agricultural development advantages each individuals and the planet.

To allow a technology-enabled transformation, we additionally invite progressive concepts that may drive impactful change inside commodity worth chains. This could embody partnerships in agritech, agroforestry, agro-ecology, regenerative practices, renewable power options, digital agriculture, climate-friendly practices, and superior traceability (e.g., blockchain) to make sure equitable and clear worth chains.

Financing could be offered within the type of loans for capital expenditures, working capital or commerce finance to spend money on productiveness and worth chain upgrading involving smallholders and/or SMEs. Applications ought to clearly present operational and monetary viability, and be economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.

Women entrepreneurs are strongly inspired to apply, as their success is crucial to reaching inclusive, sustainable development throughout the commodity sector. The CFC is dedicated to making sure that our sources can be found for each the digital and inexperienced transitions, finally supporting resilient, equitable commodity methods for each the customers and producers.

How to Apply

All SMEs/enterprises/companies/cooperatives/monetary establishments/governments are kindly invited to submit qualifying proposals no later than 1 April 2025.

All candidates are requested to submit the qualifying proposals at – opencall@common-fund.org

For full particulars, please obtain the decision for proposals application kind and the Balance Sheet/Income assertion:

• Application kind (PDF)
• General: Balance Sheet and Income Statement (Excel)
• Financial Institutions solely: Balance Sheet and Income Statement (Excel)

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