Due Diligence Fund

Competitive Fund for the Promotion of Due Diligence

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The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative (SASI) are promoting promising approaches to fulfilling corporate due diligence with a new competition fund. The third call for proposals for the Due Diligence Fund (DDF) did start in October 2024. The deadline for application is December 20, 2024. Read more about the fund and how to apply here. 

Read more about the fund and how to apply here:

  • The focus here is on the core topics of the German Supply Chain Act and the EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence as well as the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products. 
  • Together with the agri-food sector and its suppliers, we want to achieve greater sustainability in global agricultural supply chains and improve the living conditions of smallholders and plantation workers. The focus is therefore on practical implementation on the ground in OECD’s DAC-countries.
  • Projects are funded with a sum of 50,000 to EUR 123,000 over a period of up to 18 months

If you have questions, please feel free to write to us: mailto:ddf@giz.de

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Projects 

  • that meet the guiding principles of corporate due diligence to a considerable degree;
  • whose methodological approach is suitable for scalability adaptation by other companies in the agricultural and food sector;
  • which have a particularly high potential to mitigate human rights and environmental risks effectively and sustainably;
  • which embed the planned measures in a process-oriented implementation logic and do not only achieve selective effects;
  • which promote gender equality through targeted measures. 
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Previously funded projects

A total of 13 projects were funded in the last two rounds of competition. Read more about the individual projects here.