OPPORTUNITY: Call for Proposals: Implementation of the BioPANZA MSME Pipeline Pilot
The ABS Compliant Biotrade in South(ern) Africa (ABioSA) phase III is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in close partnership with the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) and funded by Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), invites interested service providers to submit proposals to support the management, technical assistance and referral of 70 biotrade MSMEs in Southern Africa.
ABioSA supports the achievement of key government targets as set out in the National Biodiversity Economy Strategy (NBES), including economic growth, transformation and sustainability. Within this context the project also supports the prioritisation of national indigenous species identified for cultivation and sustainable harvesting.
ABioSA Phase III aims to contribute to the long-term impact of creating a competitive, resilient, prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable ABS-compliant biotrade sector in southern Africa. It builds on Phases I and II by further supporting the simplification of compliance pathways, strengthening biodiversity safeguards, improving sector coordination, and reinforcing and building the capacity of smaller and emerging enterprises to participate more equitably in domestic and international value chains.
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