The ERBACHER Foundation Grant program is seeking applications to sponsor charitable projects that make life in the country possible, worth living and future-oriented.

The ERBACHER Foundation supports project for development cooperation in the 3 focus countries: Tanzania, Uganda and India. Projects especially important to foundation are those promoting livestock husbandry, crop production, water supply, environmental protection and women empowerment in rural areas.

Project Categories

• Projects in selected developing areas that directly pursue the purpose of securing healthy and balanced nourishment.
• The Foundation sponsors:
  • agricultural methods to safeguard a permanent and survivable income in an economically smart and responsible way and to improve nourishment.
  • projects in agricultural formation and training.
  • agricultural practices to conserve biodiversity.
  • agricultural projects to support disadvantaged women.
• Projects in selected developing areas that serve the protection of and access to water, soil and healthy air.
• This includes the sponsoring of:
  • measures in the fields of water resources management, drinking water supply, basic sanitation as well as agricultural irrigation.
  • reforestation to prevent erosion.
  • measures to improve the quality of farmland.
  • access to agriculturally productive soils for small farmers.
  • efficient animal-breeding to diminish climate-relevant pollution.
  • climate change adaption projects.
  • Projects in selected developing areas that provide the necessary infrastructure, access to markets or know how for the successful and sustainable realization of the projects
• This includes the sponsoring of:
  • processing and commercialization of agricultural projects.
  • occupational training.
  • structures of farming and business cooperatives.
  • Programs of international exchange, studying and raising of consciousness to sensitize for the world-wide living conditions in the countryside.
• This includes the sponsoring of:
  • transfer of knowledge between project partners.
  • exchange projects which help to give interested young people and adults living in the region of the Erbacher Company the experience of the reality of life in agricultural developing areas.
  • raising consciousness and PR at local level.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be German registered associations, who are involved in development cooperation and recognized by the tax office as a charitable organization. For an application, it is a requirement that this organization are working with a local NGO.
• The German institution is responsible for the administration and coordination and is accountable to the Foundation.

For more information, visit ERBACHER Foundation.