Association Burkinabè de Fundraising

The King Baudouin Foundation is seeking applications for its Business Partnership Facility (BPF) grants programme to provide financial support to businesses contributing to the SDGs in developing countries.

The BPF is initiated and funded by the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation (DGD) to stimulate private sector participation in achieving the SDGs in developing countries.

Themes

This call is open to projects in various sectors, but the project must focus on at least one of these three themes:

• Climate, environment and biodiversity: This includes projects that facilitate the transition to sustainable and renewable energies for businesses, promote access to adequate, affordable and sustainable energy services for the population, promote sustainable agricultural techniques, encourage access to organic and environmental certification, promote the reuse of goods and the treatment of waste, and so on. Applicant projects can also respond to the environmental changes already affecting their surroundings by adapting their (production) processes to limit the impact of these changes.
• Gender and female entrepreneurship: particular attention will be paid to projects and businesses run by women, creating real employment opportunities for girls and women, promoting equal treatment and pay for women and men, strengthening the position of women in the family and in society, offering products that meet the specific needs of girls and women in the context in which they live, ...
• Decent work and social protection: in pursuit of these objectives, initiatives aimed at ensuring a fair and sustainable income for workers and/or suppliers (farmers, etc.), promoting fair trade, encouraging safety at work, stimulating the creation of social protection systems, etc. will be supported.

Information on funding

The BPF provides a non-repayable grant of between €50,000 and €200,000, representing a maximum of 50% of the total investment.

Eligible countries

Projects must take place in one of the following countries: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia.

Eligibility criteria

Each applicant is preferably a partnership that brings together players from the private sector, civil society, academia and/or the public sector. The partnership must include at least one business partner. The project must be part of the core business of the company concerned. Partners may be Belgian, European or international legal entities.

For more information, please visit the King Baudouin Foundation.