As a federal enterprise, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. We work in a variety of fields and support our cooperation partners in designing strategies and meeting their policy goals. GIZ Viet Nam is currently engaged in three priority areas: 1) Vocational training; 2) Environmental policy and sustainable natural resource use; 3)Energy. For further information please visit our website: www.giz.de/viet-nam [1].
Within the framework of the ASEAN-German project “Promotion of sustainable agricultural value chains in ASEAN (ASEAN Agritrade)" and the project activity "Building model of public-private partnership in the value chain of agricultural products from production to consumption" implemented by the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and the Department of Crop Production - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Agrinnovation Fund in ASEAN (AIF) is established to support the implementation of market-oriented innovative practices and solutions to improve quality and sustainability in agricultural value chains.
In Vietnam, the AIF Fund supports innovative ideas related to Bac Giang litchee value chain and Son La mango value chain which are applying VietGAP standards.
Focus Areas of AIF include:
- Production and processing;
- Marketing and market access;
- Digital solutions; and
- Cooperation in the value chain of agricultural products.
The AIF invites interested smallholder farmers' organizations, processing enterprises, exporters, retail chains, input and service providers in the above-mentioned value chains to submit their AIF proposal to the email: [email protected] [2].
Deadline for submitting the Idea proposal (English or Vietnamese) is 5:00 p.m. March 15, 2021.
Please complete all the information in AIF Idea proposal form with link download here: https://bit.ly/2Oiu1hd [3]