BMZ, SASI Due Diligence Fund (Between EUR 50,000 to EUR 123,000)

Deadline:20th December 2024

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative (SASI) are promoting promising approaches to fulfilling corporate due diligence with a new competition fund.

BMZ and the SASI support projects aimed at fulfilling corporate due diligence obligations in global supply chains. Through the DDF, partnerships between companies in the agricultural and food industries and non-profit organizations can apply for funding, with a particular focus on impacts in partner countries.

• The focus here is on the core topics of the German Supply Chain Act and the EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence as well as the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products.
• Together with the agri-food sector and its suppliers, we want to achieve greater sustainability in global agricultural supply chains and improve the living conditions of smallholders and plantation workers. The focus is therefore on practical implementation on the ground in OECD’s DAC-countries.

Benefits

• Projects are funded with a sum of 50,000 to EUR 123,000 over a period of up to 18 months.

Projects to Funded

Projects

• that meet the guiding principles of corporate due diligence to a considerable degree;
• whose methodological approach is suitable for scalability adaptation by other companies in the agricultural and food sector;
• which have a particularly high potential to mitigate human rights and environmental risks effectively and sustainably;
• which embed the planned measures in a process-oriented implementation logic and do not only achieve selective effects;
• which promote gender equality through targeted measures.

Eligibility

Project proposals are to be submitted by a partnership consisting of:

• Private companies based in the EU, the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland or the United Kingdom (UK).
• Private companies based in a DAC-listed country and/or
• Organizations with a public-benefit status

Application Stages

The DDFs competition is conducted in a multi-stage process.

• First, the partnership submits a short proposal, which includes a concept note and information on the applicant partnership. Interested parties are encouraged to submit an initial project idea at an earlier stage.
• The eligible applications that best meet the overall objectives of the DDF will be shortlisted and invited to submit a long proposal, in which the project proposal should be further developed.
• From the long proposals submitted, GIZ and BMZ select the most promising project proposals on the basis of predefined evaluation criteria. These are then financially supported by GIZ within the framework of financing agreements and supported in terms of content.

For more information and application.