Eligibility criteria

   
   

Eligible projects must:

  • Have a significant impact on the global environment;

  • Contribute to the economic and social development of beneficiary countries and populations;

  • Innovate and produce effects that are demonstrable and reproducible;

  • Produce social, institutional and economic effects that endure beyond the project's lifetime;

  • Be implemented by an effective organisation;

  • Receive a majority share of funding from other agencies (including local agencies), with the FGEF providing complementary funding;

  • Demonstrate consistency with the priorities of French policy for cooperation and development.


    • The following are not eligible:

  • Programmes that concern only research and capacity building and are not linked to a development project;

  • Recurrent activities and running costs of institutions or organisations.

    • Countries eligible for the FGEF are all developing countries and countries with transitional economies which are also eligible for Official Development Assistance as defined by the OECD. However, the priority areas for FGEF funding are the countries included in the "Priority Solidarity Zone" (ZSP), so that in practice, half of its resources are used to the benefit of African countries.