The Development Fund is a results-based grant fund for catalytic activities, which will be used to support the growth of participants in specific commodity chains and ultimately to increase sales, investments, and employment. These grants will be performance – based, thus results-oriented and technically sound. In addition, partner organizations’ investments selected to be supported from the Development Fund will produce verifiable results and will have a cost share element.

Grants can be structured to provide support to one product chain or broad to an entire sector or even across all sub-sectors. An example of broad grant for entire sector could be a small grant to a processor to improve its product branding, which increase sales thus enlarge needs for raw materials which results in increased engagement of farmers in production.