Call for Proposals: Power of Diversity Grants 2026 (€2.2 Million grant) – YOA

Deadline: July 3, 2026

Proposals are invited for the Power of Diversity Grants 2026. The Power of Diversity Grants program is looking for proposals to help focused motion within the following nations – Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda and Colombia – to enhance manufacturing, processing and shopper consciousness of OPPORTUNITY crops.

The Power of Diversity Grants program will fund focused initiatives that strengthen the worth chains of chosen alternative crops – nutritious, local weather-resilient crops which are properly tailored to difficult environments however stay underutilized. Specific goal crops for elevated investments had been recognized via nationwide stakeholder consultations within the six nations in 2025.

Each grant will fund a excessive-impression, scalable venture that strengthens particular alternative crop worth chains. The venture ought to handle one or a number of of the intervention areas for every worth chain and crop, as nationwide stakeholders recognized potential to:

• Increase productiveness via seed system improvement and good agricultural practices
• Strengthen put up-harvest and processing capacities
• Improve market entry and improve worth chain effectivity 
• Increase shopper consciousness

Grant

• A EUR 2.2 million grant is obtainable.

Eligibility

• Grant candidates ought to be organizations that reveal the expertise, experience and eligibility to carry out all proposed actions.
• Technical eligibility should embrace in-nation expertise of at the very least three years.
• Applicants should be capable to show their annual common income turnover from 2023 to 2025 exceeds their proposed venture funds, with the funds quantities laid out in scope of actions and often starting from $100,000 to $200,000 USD.
• Proposals may be submitted for one or a number of venture intervention areas.

Application

Submissions outdoors of the portal is not going to be accepted. Proposals, together with all accompanying documentation, ought to be submitted in English.

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For extra info, go to Power of Diversity Grants.