Strong, resilient & inclusive cocoa communities Grant

About this grant

The Chocolonely Foundation supports projects and organisations that contribute to prosperous cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, facilitate systemic change, and challenge the status quo. The foundation focuses on funding initiatives that address strong, resilient and inclusive cocoa communities; poverty and prosperity; and enabling environments in cocoa-growing communities. The foundation aims to help people shape their own futures through decent education, good infrastructure, the ability to make a decent living, climate resilience, good health and wellbeing. It fosters a diverse landscape of local organisations and businesses, facilitates collaborations, encourages innovative pilot projects, and provides seed funding to local Ghanaian and Ivorian organisations and businesses. The foundation also works to empower youth and give unheard and underrepresented voices from Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire a platform.

Eligibility

Projects must directly contribute to the advancement of the foundation's mission and fall within one of its impact categories of action. The approach must be demonstrably effective and/or innovative. The results achieved by the project must be freely available. The initiative's geographic scope must focus on Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Projects should support cocoa growing communities where Tony's works in partnership with cocoa cooperatives and cocoa farming communities.

How it's scored

The board meets regularly to assess project proposals and decide on long-term strategy. Applications are evaluated against project criteria including contribution to mission, demonstrated effectiveness or innovation, public availability of results, and geographic focus on Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.

Key requirements

• ✓Projects must be located in cocoa-growing communities where Tony's Chocolonely works with cooperatives
• ✓Primary focus on decent education, good infrastructure, decent livelihoods, climate resilience, and health/wellbeing outcomes
• ✓Community-led approach with emphasis on communities shaping their own future

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Funder contact

The notice names a programme contact you can speak to before applying.

Frequently asked questions

Who can apply for Strong, resilient & inclusive cocoa communities?

Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL-SOUTH, AFRICA, LATAM, SE-ASIA; nonprofit, charity, cooperative, social-enterprise, community-group, local-authority. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.

Relevant sectors

About this sector

Climate adaptation funding helps communities, infrastructure and businesses prepare for heat, flooding, drought and sea level rise. Most of it is public and multilateral money, often targeted at vulnerable regions and delivered with local government. Calls usually ask for a climate risk assessment and evidence that local people shaped the plan.