9 grant opportunities in food security

24.07.2023

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Experts of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme continue to compile selections of relevant grant opportunities for various fields in the conditions of the war. This time — grants for farmers and entrepreneurs related to food production.

U-LEAD with Europe experts continue to compile digests of grant opportunities that can be useful for municipalities. Check out a new selection of food security grants.

In wartime, food security became a top concern. Municipalities are faced with new challenges, so they must look for additional resources to address food-related issues. Petro Hotsaliuk, a project cycle expert at U-LEAD with Europe, believes that municipalities can attract a lot of funds to increase food security through grants. The expert analysed the active competitions and came up with a digest of relevant opportunities for municipalities to share with their business community.

1. Grants for women’s and family SMEs

Priorities of the competition:

Supporting the economic capacity of women’s and family small and medium enterprises;
Increasing the operational and production capacity of women’s and family SMEs;
Encouraging the growth and expansion of women’s and family SMEs, including expansion to foreign (international) markets;
Expansion of integration into the job market and entrepreneurship of women.

Who can participate?

Small and medium-sized family and women’s enterprises that produce goods and provide services.

Grant amount: USD 10,000 to USD 35,000

Application deadline: 24 July 2023

Learn more: https://cutt.ly/AwoMChyA

2. Farming Recovery Assistance Programme by the global humanitarian aid organisation Mercy Corps

Purpose of the competition. Help small farmers to re-establish, expand or launch new homesteads or farms.

Who can participate? Small farmers and households with the status of internally displaced persons, as well as local small farmers whose activities were significantly affected by the war, in Poltava, Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts.

Grant amount: the average amount of financial assistance is USD 1,500 in UAH equivalent.

Application deadline: there is no deadline; the Programme will end when the required number of participants is reached.

Learn more about the competition: https://cutt.ly/1woMV3lI

3. IOM grant competition for war-affected micro and small enterprises

Who can participate?

Small and micro-enterprises relocating or operating in the city of Kyiv or the Kyiv, Lviv, Zakarpattia, Sumy, Chernihiv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk or Kharkiv oblasts;
Registered for at least a year before the application submission date;
Registered in Ukraine and owned by citizens of Ukraine.

Enterprises from the following sectors are NOT ELIGIBLE:

Production or trade in weapons and munitions;
Production or trade in alcoholic beverages;
Production or trade in tobacco products;
Production or trade in radioactive materials;
Production, trade or use of friable asbestos fibres;
Production or trade in pharmaceuticals;
Production or trade of pesticides/herbicides subject to international phase-outs or bans;
Healthcare facilities and pharmacies.

What can grant funds be spent on?

Purchase of specialised equipment, tools necessary for production/processing, and other activities of the company;
Lease of premises (up to 4 months);
Repairs and furnishing of premises (including purchase of furniture, racks, etc.);
Salary (up to 4 months) and expenses for creating additional jobs;
Purchase of raw materials for the production process (up to 50% of the grant amount);
Transportation of equipment/personnel;
Other relevant activities.

Project implementation period: up to 4 months.

Grant amount: for micro-enterprises, the maximum amount of the grant is EUR 4,500 in UAH equivalent; for small enterprises, the maximum amount of the grant is EUR 20,000 in UAH equivalent.

Application deadline: 30 October 2023. Grants are awarded until funds are exhausted. If they are exhausted by October 2023, the competition will be closed.

Learn more about the grants: https://cutt.ly/F6UBPrq

4. Grants to support export alliances

Who can participate?

An export alliance must include at least five entities and/or private entrepreneurs from the same industry/sector of the economy and/or those that offer goods and/or services intended for consumption within the value chain and offer a strong innovation potential, are capable to generate revenue on international markets or potentially substitute imported products on the domestic market.

Participants of the export alliance can be privately owned enterprises (legal entities/individual entrepreneurs) that are officially registered in Ukraine, with a number of employees of up to 250 persons, an annual turnover of up to EUR 50 million and/or an annual balance of up to EUR 43 million.

Grant amount: USD 35,000 to USD 150,000. The grantee must make a contribution of at least 25% of the total budget.

Application deadline: 30 September 2023

Learn more: https://cutt.ly/wwoMM0nL

5. eRobota: a grant for your own business

Who can participate?

Future entrepreneurs, active individual entrepreneurs or legal entities that:

do not stay or conduct economic activities in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine;
do not conduct economic activities on the territory of Russia;
are not under sanctions;
are not subject to bankruptcy proceedings;
are not prosecuted for corruption according to a court ruling;
are not in arrears to the budget.

Grant amount: UAH 50 to UAH 250,000

What can grant funds be spent on?

Procurement of equipment;
Procurement of raw materials;
Rent (up to 25% of the grant amount);
Equipment leasing.

Application deadline: 30 July 2023 (the 13th round)

Learn more: https://diia.gov.ua/services/grant-na-vlasnu-spravu

6. eRobota: a grant for an orchard, a berry garden, a vineyard

Who can participate?

Active individual entrepreneurs or legal entities that:

do not stay or conduct economic activities in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine;
do not conduct economic activities on the territory of Russia;
are not under sanctions;
are not subject to bankruptcy proceedings;
are not prosecuted for corruption according to a court ruling;
are not in arrears to the budget.

Grant amount: UAH 140,000 to UAH 400,000 per hectare, but up to 70% of the cost of the planting project.

Application deadline: ongoing

Learn more: https://diia.gov.ua/services/grant-na-sad

7. eRobota: a grant for a greenhouse

Who can participate?

Active individual entrepreneurs or legal entities that:

do not stay or conduct economic activities in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine;
do not conduct economic activities on the territory of Russia;
are not under sanctions;
are not subject to bankruptcy proceedings;
are not prosecuted for corruption according to a court ruling;
are not in arrears to the budget.

Grant amount:

for 0.4-0.6 hectares: UAH 2 million;
for 0.8-1.2 hectares: UAH 3.5 million;
for 1.6-2.4 hectares: UAH 7 million.

Application deadline: ongoing

Learn more: https://diia.gov.ua/services/grant-na-teplicyu

8. eRobota: a grant for a processing plant

Who can participate?

Future entrepreneurs, active individual entrepreneurs or legal entities that:

do not stay or conduct economic activities in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine;
do not conduct economic activities on the territory of Russia;
are not under sanctions;
are not subject to bankruptcy proceedings;
are not prosecuted for corruption according to a court ruling;
are not in arrears to the budget.

Grant amount: UAH 8,000,000.

Application deadline: ongoing

Learn more: https://cutt.ly/gwoM4nhl

9. eRobota: a grant for veterans and their family members

Who can participate?

The grant programme was created for war veterans, persons with disabilities as a result of war, as well as their wives or husbands.

The grant can be received by individual entrepreneurs or individuals planning to open their own business, who:

do not stay or conduct economic activities in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine;
do not conduct economic activities on the territory of Russia;
are not under sanctions;
are not subject to bankruptcy proceedings;
are not prosecuted for corruption according to a court ruling;
are not in arrears to the budget.

Grant amount:

up to UAH 250,000 – only veterans can apply. The grant recipient must create 1 job;
up to UAH 500,000 – the husband or wife of a veteran can apply. The programme covers up to 70% of the project cost, and the grant recipient must create 2 jobs;
up to UAH 1,000,000 – a veteran who has been registered as an individual entrepreneur for 3 years or more can apply. The programme covers 70% of the project cost. The recipient of the grant must create 4 jobs, two of which must be occupied by war veterans.