Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) Call for Proposals 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 29, 2025

The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) Call for Proposals 2025 are ongoing. The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) seeks to help transformative, excessive-affect tasks that not solely enhance smallholder incomes but additionally contribute to the regeneration of ecosystems. They finance initiatives that align business viability with environmental and social sustainability – enabling smallholders to entry excessive-worth markets, undertake eco-pleasant practices, add worth domestically, and interact in biodiversity-acutely aware farming.

Their investments goal to construct extra inclusive, resilient, and sustainable worth chains – the place expertise empowers folks, wholesome ecosystems sit alongside financial OPPORTUNITY, and smallholders are positioned as energetic companions in progress. The Common Fund for Commodities welcomes funding functions from all of its 101 member international locations.

Priority Areas

• Trade Finance for Companies – Connecting Smallholder Farmers with Global Markets.
• Regenerative Agriculture & Biodiversity Protection.
• Local Value Addition with Low Environmental Impact.
• Agtech and Digital Tools for Inclusive, Sustainable and Transparent Value Chains.
• Improving Financial Access for Smallholder Farmers.
• Women Entrepreneurship and Business Solutions with a Gender Lens

grant

• The most quantity is USD 1.5 million for common tasks, and as much as USD $300,000 below the Fast-Track process.

Eligibility

• The CFC welcomes functions from SMEs, cooperatives, social enterprises, NGOs, and public or non-public sector entities which can be based mostly or have energetic operations in certainly one of extra of the 101 member international locations, with tasks that improve smallholder livelihoods and drive inclusive native growth. 
• Projects ought to be financially viable, and candidates will need to have a minimal of three years of operational historical past demonstrating related expertise and capability.
• Funding proposals from or targeted on Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Landlocked growing international locations (LLDCs), and Small Island Developing Countries (SIDCs) are handled with precedence. 

The CFC significantly encourages functions for:

• Projects targeted on the sustainable use and conservation of forest sources within the Congo Basin area (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo).
• Funding proposals regarding small ticket sizes for tasks based mostly exterior capital cities, targeted on home markets or non-conventional worth chains, and with out prior worldwide funding within the following international locations: Senegal, Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zambia, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zimbabwe.

Application

obtain the decision for proposals application kind and the Balance Sheet/Income assertion:

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

For extra data, go to Common Fund for Commodities.