Background	Deadline
Funding Priorities	Application Forms
Grantmaking Criteria	Application & Procedures
Guidelines	Languages
Project Duration	Tips

The AFD is the main actor of French development aid. As part of a general review of public policy, the AFD now manages initiatives that were previously taken by the Mission Supporting International NGOs within the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. For any project which begins after 1 January 2009, the AFD implements the training, financing and technical and operational monitoring. In 2008, the AFD worked with 120 NGOs and dispersed €21 million. In the same year, the AFD spent €1 billion financing transactions in developing countries and €1 trillion overseas.

Inter-NGO programme funds a multi-annual programme covering a coherent set of projects and activities submitted by a group of development NGOs.

The project must:

•    Establish the conditions for an association to develop its skills in a thematic or geographical area, including through the implementation of actions coordinates
•    Foster a partnership relationship between AFD and an association whose experience and qualities of intervention are recognised
•    Foster a project that will diffuse knowledge sharing between partners in the South and associations in the North.

Co-financing requested from AFD is granted in priority to associations which are incorporated under the ‘Statute Law of 1901’, with all or part of their activities devoted to supporting development and international solidarity.

•    The applicant must have an annual budget superior or equal to €1.5 million. The annual budget of the convention programme cannot exceed a third of the total of the association’s annual budget (calculated on the previous three years). Over the past three years, the average share of grants awarded by the Department of Foreign and European Affairs and the AFD does not exceed 35% of annual budget NGO dedicated to international solidarity
•    The association must have benefited in the last six years from at least two financing or co-financing opportunities from the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs: Mission Relations with civil society, Services Cooperation and Cultural Action, Department of Technical Cooperation and the Crisis Centre (formerly the Delegate for Humanitarian Action) or AFD for a total of over €600,000.
•    A renewal of this programme can only be submitted once.
•    The budget should include the cost of evaluation and capitalization.

 

Guidelines can be found here.

 

Multi-year funding lasts three to four years in duration. 

None specified.

Application material can be found on AFD’s website.

The application should consist of:
•    Filing a grant application by mail including (a letter specifying the amount requested and the reason for the request, duplicate administrative copies, duplicate financial and technical copies, and one copy of the complete application on CD-ROM.)
•    Emailing the receipt of the request by the NGO partnership Division
•    A presentation of evidence by the NGO partnership Division
•    NGO Committee chaired by the MAEE decides to award or refuse the request

French

It is an advantage that the applicant participates in thematic and geographical networks.

Preferred projects are those with a significant impact implemented in cooperation with governmental authorities of the recipient country and the French services for cooperation and cultural action (SCAC) of the French embassies.

Coordination SUD can also be contacted for more general information on development cooperation and on accredited NGOs.¹ 

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¹ Contact information can be found in the NGO Platform Contact Information section of this Guide.