CfP: Support to Transformative Food Security Finance (TFSF) Investment in Bangladesh
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In Bangladesh, approximately one-quarter of the population (roughly 40 million people) is food insecure, of which 11 million suffer from acute hunger. A notable portion of people is still severely food insecure and malnourished.
Hunger and hidden hunger directed to malnutrition which leads to the numbers of health risk. The hunger problem is killing more people and create long term morbidities than many deadly diseases like corona, malaria, and tuberculosis. There are almost one billion chronically hungry people in the world, the majority of them are women. Malnutrition has lasting effects. Children deprived of adequate nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life often have stunted growth, poor cognitive development and low immunity to disease. But malnutrition can be reduced when women are empowered.
In Bangladesh, a large number of organizations have been implementing and supporting various agro-based projects for five decades. Many of the organizations have demonstrated successes and may have sustainable achievements near future. Under this call for proposal, such proposals are highly expected that facilitate to support broader food security interventions.
Through CfP, the Transformative Food Security Finance (TFSF) facility is inviting innovative proposals for commercially viable transformative food security investment projects focused on agro-processing, nutrition, climate adaptive agriculture, blue food production, food value chain, post-harvest management and technologies, marketing, distribution, storage, processing plants, digital technologies to handle agro-processing, and any other agricultural value addition projects.
Priority will be given to enterprises engaged in agricultural products value chain projects that create business opportunities and contribute to economic empowerment, particularly women and youth, contribute to development of local community and leverage the targeted beneficiaries for local development as well as to projects that aim at reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. Other innovative agricultural practices may also be considered.
Deadline for submission: The deadline for submission of project proposals is 15th of December 2021 by 5:00 PM (BD Time). Proposals can be submitted either in Bangla or English.