Deadline: 26-Jun-25
The Global Agriculture & Food Security Program (GAFSP) has launched the Call for Proposals for Producer Organization Led Projects to strengthen the capacity and sustainability of advancing POs, so that they provide better services to their member farmers and more effectively deliver GAFSP program objectives at the country and regional levels.
GAFSP support for PO-led proposals is guided by two principles: subsidiarity and partnership. Subsidiarity ensures that decisions and implementation take place at the most localized level possible to maximize impact on PO members and ensure efficiency and responsiveness to the needs of smallholder producers. In accordance with GAFSP’s Theory of Change, projects should demonstrate clear and tangible outcomes at the member producers’ level, in addition to results at the PO institutional level.
The principle of partnership emphasizes POs’ role as development partners to smallholder farmers, rather than beneficiaries of GAFSP resources. Specifically, POs take the lead in designing projects for and with smallholder producers in partnership with their chosen Supervising Entities (SEs) and must ensure that the proposed project aligns with the identified investment priorities of their respective smallholder farmer members.
Funding Information
- The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) expects approximately US$38 million to be allocated in grant resources for eligible Producer Organizations (POs) through this Eighth Call for Proposals.
- The maximum amounts of funding per project are as follows:
- National POs: US$ 2.5 million
- Regional POs that do not provide subgrants to member national POs: US$ 2.5 million
- Regional PO-led projects, which provide subgrants to member national POs: US$ 4 million
Eligibility Criteria
- For national or subnational, single-country Producer Organizations (POs), eligible POs are national or subnational POs structured as either a producers’ association, union, federation, cooperative, or apex organization—including umbrella organizations or federations of POs—that satisfy all of the characteristics listed below:
- It is a registered legal entity in a Global Agriculture and Food Security (GAFSP)-eligible country.
- It operates in a GAFSP-eligible country (nationwide or subnational).
- Its members are individuals or groups of farmers, pastoralists, artisanal fishers, forest-dwelling groups, food processors and landless people, and/or Indigenous People.
- It is a member-owned organization, which implies that the organization is owned and operated by its members, who have a say in decision-making and share in benefits or profits, rather than external shareholders or other financial contributors.
- It carries out activities to support smallholder producers in the fields of agriculture, including storage, processing, and marketing, or other relevant services related to agriculture, food, and nutrition security.
For more information, visit GAFSP.