Deadline: 20-Jun-22
Is your company or organization ready to take action to fight climate change? Do you have great ideas on how to make your supply chains from shelf to field more resilient and climate-friendly? Then join forces with partners along the supply chain and let innovative ideas grow.
The 14C is a call for proposals for business-led consortia aiming to make global supply chains from shelf to field climate smart.
They invite companies and organizations along agricultural supply chains to apply with their joint project concepts that meet the criteria as defined in the Call for Proposals.
On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the GIZ Global Program ‘Sustainability and Value Added in Agricultural Supply Chains’ is launching the Initiative For Climate Smart Supply Chains (I4C) to engage actors along the agricultural supply chain jointly implement projects fighting climate change and promoting just transition.
Objectives
The aim of this initiative is to make agricultural supply chains climate smart. I4C considers three aspects of climate smart agricultural supply chains:
- Increasing agricultural productivity and incomes sustainably,
- Adapting smallholder farming systems and livelihoods to climate change and
- Reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Action Areas
All projects must contribute to at least two of the following action areas:
- Increasing agricultural productivity and incomes sustainably
- Adapting smallholder farming systems and livelihoods to climate change
- Reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions.
Why to apply?
- The total volume of the project is between two and three million euros
- Get support for climate action! On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) GIZ is awarding up to 50% of total funding to the best-placed projects and supports them in their realization.
- Take responsibility! While a Tractive part-financing and project assistance for good is offered, projects will be developed and implemented by the winner Consortia.
Duration: The project has a duration of 18 months to three years.
Geographic Focus
Project concepts must indicate in which Partner Country/ies the activities shall be implemented. The target country/ies must be among the BMZ Partner Countries. If several Partner Countries are addressed or a regional approach stretching across several Partner Countries is proposed, the time and financial resources must be planned appropriately. After final selection of the winning projects, close coordination takes place with the relevant regional units and external structure of GIZ.
Targeted Companies
It particularly targets companies from the consumer and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector.This includes the sectors
- Food and nutrition
- Clothing and textiles (cotton products) and footwear
- Cosmetics and personal care
- Detergents and cleaning products.
Eligibility Criteria
I4C is a Call for Proposals for Consortia of different Consortium partners to implement the proposed project. Consortia meeting the following criteria are eligible for participating in the Call for Proposals:
- Any applying Consortium shall consist of at least two Consortium partners, including
- At least one of the Consortium partners is an International Company,
- At least one of the Consortium partners is a Local Entity in each Partner Country and
- optionally, one or more International Associations may participate as further Consortium partners.
The Consortium does not need to be formalized by an agreement (e.g., joint venture agreement or consortium agreement). If the Consortium is final selected, all Consortium members will enter into an agreement with GIZ.
Criteria to qualify as ‘International Company’
- Any commercial company, partnership or other entity established in the EU, or any other country not listed in the OECD DAC List of ODA Recipients,
- Active in the trade, processing and/or procurement of the specified agricultural supply chains,
- At least EUR 1,000,000 annual turnover,
- At least eight employees, and
- Sufficient financial stability and liquidity to provide the necessary own contribution.
Criteria to qualify as ‘Local Entity’
- Any company, partnership, association, cooperative, foundation, organisation, research institution or NGO with.
- Head office or major part of activities in one or more Partner Countries.
Criteria to qualify as ‘International Association’
- Any association, organisation, partnership, cooperative, foundation, research institution NGO or companies not falling under ‘International Company’, active in the field of international development cooperation or having an international focus with
- Head office in the EU or any other country not listed in the OECD DAC List of ODA Recipients.
For more information, visit https://www.nachhaltige-agrarlieferketten.org/foerderungen/initiative-for-climate-smart-supply-chains/