Deadline: 31st March 2025
Are you planning to train local professionals or improve environmental and social standards in your supply chain? Do you have an innovative business idea that can be expected to have a positive development effect in the sense of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals?
The develoPPP Classic funding instrument of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is aimed at already established companies that want to invest sustainably in a developing or emerging country and expand their business activities locally. Suitable projects that are related to this entrepreneurial activity and at the same time relevant to development policy can receive technical and financial support of up to two million euros if the company contributes at least half of the costs. It is important that these projects, in addition to achieving a long-term business objective, also generate sustainable benefits for the local people.
The develoPPP Classic funding instrument can be used in over 60 developing and emerging countries around the globe and is deliberately flexible in its content. Supported projects can be located in very different sectors and thematic areas and range from the training of local experts and piloting of innovative technologies and demonstration plants to the sustainable expansion of supply chains and the improvement of environmental and social standards. What all develoPPP Classic projects have in common is that they combine a long-term business interest with a sustainable developmental benefit.
Selected focus topics
- Sustainable supply chains: Towards more sustainable production worldwide
- Digitalisation: Digital transformation in developing countries and emerging markets
- Gender equality: Seeing diversity as opportunity
Funding
- 100,000 to 2 million euros in project funding.
Eligibility
Any company based in the EU, a member country of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) or an OECD-DAC country is eligible to participate in the develoPPP Classic ideas competition. The prerequisite for funding is sufficient financial resources and personnel capacities that are commensurate with the project idea. For this purpose, your company must:
- have at least eight employees
- have an annual turnover of at least 800,000 euros
- have at least two audited annual financial statements
- have a positive net income as well as sufficient equity capital and liquidity to ensure your company’s contribution
For more information and application.