The support program for micro-projects run by La Guilde in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD), the CIRRMA, the RRMAs and the Agir Sa Vie Foundation, offers you a new call for multi-thematic projects to enable you to implement place of development projects.
Calendar
Closing of the call for projects : April 02, 2024
funding
Two funding thresholds are possible:
1/ Between €3 and €000 : for all associations that meet the eligibility criteria ;
2/ Between €3 and €000 : for associations meeting the eligibility criteria which have already benefited from Microprojects funding from La Guilde having submitted a final quality assessment, AND whose annual N-1 income statement is greater than €50.
The grant awarded cannot under any circumstances represent more than 50% of eligible expenses of the project, valuations included.
The remaining 50% can be provided by own resources and/or by other donors (minimum 25% of the project budget) and valorization (maximum 25% of the project budget).
These ineligible expenses can nevertheless be mentioned in the project budget but must be covered by another donor or by the association's own funds.
Eligibility criteria
The structure
- be under French law, under the 1901 law published in the official journal (or in the District Court for the associations of Lorraine and Alsace),
- have more than 2 years of seniority at the closing date of the session have annual resources of less than 200 euros (N-000 income statements validated by the last General Meeting),
- have a legal existence and its own accounting (for regional branches of national structures),
- not intervene within the framework of decentralized cooperation (twinning committees are not eligible).
Project
- be carried out in a country eligible for the OECD Development Assistance Committee (consult the list of eligible countries). Projects in France and Mali are not eligible. Concerning Burkina Faso and Niger, taking into account the end of the eligibility of expenses from March 31, 2024 and the uncertainties about possible exemptions from the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, microprojects in these countries of intervention are not eligible for this session.
- have an implementation duration of between 1 and 3 years (monitoring and evaluation phases included)
- present future activities and not past or current ones (if activities have already taken place in the past, they should be summarized in the historical part of the project). Expenditures will be eligible from the closing date of the call for projects.
- be co-constructed with a local partner (moral and not physical group: association, cooperative, management committee, etc.) and be the subject of a partnership agreement signed by each of the parties.
- concern all themes of development aid (access to water, health, agriculture, education, etc.). Projects using sport as development tools are eligible.
Are not eligible
Projects are ineligible if their main theme concerns:
- the emergency or immediate post-crisis,
- one-off projects,
- simple construction projects (without proven autonomy),
- feasibility studies, diagnostics,
- volunteering,
- sponsorship,
- youth or student projects,
- production of documentaries or artistic works,
- microfinance: micro-savings, micro-credit, micro-insurance.
Projects that have already received direct or indirect funding from (non-exhaustive lists) are not eligible:
– from the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE):
- Financial arrangements of French Embassies,
- Youth, International Solidarity / City, Life, Holidays-International Solidarity (JSI/VVV-SI) schemes,
- Fonjep,
- Funds from the International Organization of la Francophonie from the MEAE.
– from the French Development Agency (AFD):
- Forum of International Solidarity Organizations from Migration (FORIM) in particular via the Support Program for the projects of International Solidarity Organizations from Immigration (PRA/OSIM),
- Small Initiatives Program of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),
- System for promoting family farming in West Africa of the French Committee for International Solidarity (CFSI).
Selection criteria
Particular attention will be paid to the following aspects:
- Relevance of the project: needs expressed by the populations, adapted response, long-term objectives, etc.
- Local anchoring: partnerships/collaboration with NGOs and other local associations, coordination with local policies, etc.
- Sustainability of the project: the project can continue, expand, be reproduced, it becomes autonomous in the medium term...
- Proportionality between expenditure and expected results
- Ability to measure changes
- Involvement of beneficiaries throughout the project
- Taking into account cross-cutting themes (Gender, Youth, Environment).
- The mobilization of volunteers (International Solidarity Volunteer and International Civic Service) is encouraged.
Funding requests are made exclusively online on the Solidarity portal. To support you, we invite you to consult the deposit tutorial attached file.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or if you would like support in your process.
