Association Burkinabè de Fundraising

Promotion of family farming

programme Promotion of family farming in West Africa (Pafao) has been jointly supported since 2009 by the Fondation de France and the French Committee for International Solidarity (CFSI). It benefits from a contribution from the JM Bruneau Foundation (hosted by the Fondation de France) and theFrench Development Agency (AFD). The programme Joint action for West-Africa (Jafowa) is involved in the capitalisation component of the programme. The Network of Farmers' and Producers' Organisations in West Africa (Roppa) is a member of the Steering and Monitoring Committee. The programme supports or has supported more than 270 initiatives since 2009 on the basis of an annual "general" call for projects and 4 HELP calls (in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020).

The overall objective of the Pafao programme aims to :

• promote local initiatives that enable the strengthen access to healthy, quality food produced by viable and sustainable West African family farming and processed in the country or sub-region, while ensuring an equitable distribution of added value in the value chains (this is the present call for projects) ;
• capitalise (produce knowledge) to draw useful lessons beyond the projects, for organisations and for advocacy actors. The challenge is to contribute to the documentation of the sustainability of this agricultural and food model, which can be used to call on decision-makers to take these issues into account in public policies;
• support the construction of scaling up strategies so that successful initiatives do not remain marginal but occupy more economic space.

In a context of competition with imports, this amounts to supporting "local consumption", understood as "local products". local and national consumption of West African family farming products ". More details here.

By joining forces with Roppa (a major advocacy actor) and allowing the eligibility of advocacy projects, the programme articulates a rather economic approach with projects carried out at the level of territories and sectors with an approach to influence the political and legislative environment at national and regional level to make it more supportive of sustainable family farming.

The 2022 call is exclusively targeted at initiatives that answer one (or more) of these 3 questions:

• How can the marketing of local products be remunerative for farmers and other actors in the value chain? beyond niche marketsWhat is the best way to ensure that the food produced and processed in the country or sub-region is of high quality?
• How local products from family farming can they access institutional markets in a sustainable way ?
• How to make West African consumers, and their organisations, full players in the mass consumption of healthy local products ?

If your project does not address at least one of these questions centrally and specifically, it will not be selected.

Who is the call for projects Promotion of family farming aimed at?

As far as carriers are concerned, the call is open:

• non-profit legal entities based in Europe (EU) or West Africa, such as: farmers' organisations (FOs), West African NGOs, support NGOs active in West Africa or Europe (European Union - EU) insofar as they act with local partners, research and/or training organisations. Cooperatives are also eligible. Public institutions other than those mentioned above and local authorities are not eligible as project leaders;
• to organisations that have been registered for more than one year;
• applicants who have previously carried out actions in the field of agriculture and food systems;

As far as the eligibility of partners is concerned, the call is open: 

• non-profit legal entities, such as : organizations Farmers' organisations (FOs), West African NGOs, support NGOs active in West Africa or in Europe (EU) insofar as they act with local partners, research and/or training organisations. Cooperatives are also eligible as main partners.
• Local and regional authorities have a role to play in food systems. As such, they can be a main partner provided that their role is decisive in the project and that it is explained.
• Public institutions other than those mentioned above are not eligible as "main partner" but can be part of the "other partners" of the project.
• The partners participate in the definition and implementation of the project. Their role and added value must be made explicit.
• The partners in the European organisations play a key role in the design and implementation of the proposed project (their role is not that of a mere intermediary).
• Project funders cannot be partners (CFSI, Fondation de France or any other funder cannot be project partners).

How to respond?

Please download the guidelines and the application form (Word and Excel files) below. The dossier, completed in French or English, should be sent by mail only to the following address secr.aea@cfsi.asso.fr (fichier Word, accompanied by the fichier Excel for the budgets and the requested annexes). The submission will be sent in several emails, each of which will have a maximum size of 8 MB. The deadline for receipt of the application by email is Tuesday 22 February 2022.