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The Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) offers grants up to US$ 1,000,000 for projects that improve food safety, animal and plant health capacity to comply with international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) requirements.

These grants are expected to help address particular SPS challenges or issues that affect trade to international markets.

What assistance can be requested under STDF projects?

The STDF offers grants for projects that promote compliance with international SPS requirements. It should be clear how the requested project will help to address particular SPS challenges or issues that affect trade to regional and/or international markets.

The following types of projects are given favourable consideration:

• Projects relevant to the identification, development and dissemination of good practice in SPS-related technical cooperation, including projects that develop and apply innovative and replicable approaches;

• Projects linked to STDF work (e.g. Climate Change, Electronic SPS Certification, Good Regulatory Practice, Public-Private Partnerships, Trade Facilitation);

• Projects that address SPS constraints through regional approaches; and

Collaborative and inter-disciplinary projects focused on the interface / linkages between human, animal and plant health and trade, and benefiting from the involvement of two or more partners or other relevant organizations.

Funding Information

• Project grants (PGs), up to a maximum of US$1,000,000.

Target Beneficiaries

The application should clearly identify the beneficiaries of the project, who may include small farmers, producers, workers, consumers, etc. It should explain how these groups are expected to benefit, quantifying these benefits as far as possible.

Eligibility

Who can apply for STDF funding?

The following organizations are eligible to apply for STDF funding:

• Public sector entities (including regional or international bodies) with responsibility for SPS measures or policy, either in their own right or in cooperation with the private sector. The STDF encourages implementation of projects and activities through public private partnerships;

• Private sector entities, either in their own right or in cooperation with the public sector. Examples of private sector entities include legally registered farmers' organizations, trade and industry associations, etc.;

• Non-profit non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with expertise in the SPS area and with an organization in the relevant beneficiary country or countries, in co-operation with the public and/or private sector; and

• STDF partners.

Post Date: 27-Feb-2023