Welcome! You are about to enter the online application form of the Call for Proposals of the Trade for Development Centre (TDC) targeting business support organisations to develop tools and/or trajectories to support and guide businesses in terms of sustainability and respect for human rights.
Before completing the form, please read the guidelines for the current call very carefully. This document contains important and useful information which will guide you and increase the chances of your proposal being selected.
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Whilst filling in the application form, you will be asked to both fill-in an online form and upload documents. Templates are provided within the webform. You can confirm your answer and navigate between the different pages by using the 'next' and 'back' buttons at the bottom of each page.
Your draft webform will automatically be saved all along the process, so you can leave the application form at any time and return afterwards. Attention! Once you have submitted your application, it can't be modified anymore.
Our assessment process is extremely rigorous and selective. We therefore recommend that you read our guidelines very carefully and provide the most comprehensive information possible in the application form.
ATTENTION: Please note that it will not be possible to submit your application after the deadline, which is set for Monday 6 May 2024 at 12.30pm (Brussels time). We strongly advise you not to wait until the last day or the last minute, and to anticipate possible power cuts, variations in the quality of the Internet connection, bad weather preventing you from reaching areas to send your application, etc.
Only organisations that meet the following criteria are eligible for this call for proposals. Other proposals will be rejected. Your organisation must:
- Be a legal entity;
- Be a public body, or be a private not-for-profit body, or be a legal person governed by private law whose primary objective is not to maximise profits and redistribute profits to its shareholders;
- Have been a legal entity for at least 2 years;
- Have certified financial statements for the last two years (not required for public bodies);
- Not exceed the definition of a medium-sized company;
- Be a Business Support Organisation (BSO) providing services to entrepreneurs/companies. The BSO must, at the very least, offer support services to MSMEs in the field of trade, trade facilitation and export promotion;
- Have, in whole or in part, as clients or members (i.e. the organisations to which the BSO offers support) producers' organisations and/or cooperatives and/or social economy enterprises active in the cocoa, coffee and/or cashew nut sectors;
- Be established in one of the following countries:
- Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania or Uganda .
- BSOs providing support to organisations active in the cocoa sector may also be established in Côte d'Ivoire or Ghana
- BSOs providing support to organisations active in the coffee sector may also be established in Ethiopia or in Kenya.
- Support a minimum of 5 companies per year
- Have at least 2 permanent employees
- Not act as an intermediary.
Please refer to the guidelines for more details.