{"id":1290,"date":"2021-08-19T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/red-neo.am\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2021-08-18T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T11:31:07","slug":"small-grants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Small Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Component C of RED-NEO Program aims to bond the results of Components A and B, and give program beneficiaries upgrade their production with hard investment and escalate business growth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The conditions and limitations of getting a small grant within the frames of RED-NEO program is presented below:<\/span><\/p>\n

– The grants will be disbursed in 60 communities of 10 regions of Armenia.<\/span><\/p>\n

– Overall 100 small grants will be provided, which will be selected out of 3000 project<\/span>trained participants.<\/span><\/p>\n

– The grants will be provided in kind only.<\/span><\/p>\n

– The own investment of beneficiary will comprise at least 70% of total budget of<\/span>proposed small grant project.<\/span><\/p>\n

– The maximum amount of small grant cannot exceed USD 15,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

– The small grant does not cover working capital (salaries, inputs, utility expenses), as well as taxes, construction works, in apiculture \u2013 acquisition of beehives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the process of small grant beneficiary selection, a priority will be given to entities which:<\/span><\/p>\n

– have substantiate expertise in the field<\/span><\/p>\n

– report high feasibility rate for the proposed project<\/span><\/p>\n

– ensure increased incomes at their businesses and for the ones they cooperate with<\/span><\/p>\n

– ensure increased sources of incomes for their businesses and the ones they cooperate with other farmers<\/span><\/p>\n

– will create new jobs and\/or increase employment rates<\/span><\/p>\n

– will involve women and youth in their operations<\/span><\/p>\n

– will enhance market system development, horizontal and vertical integration in a given<\/span>value chain.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For example, if you are a fruit processor and you want to apply for SG for acquisition of<\/span>equipment, and thus to increase your production and marketing volumes, then your<\/span>application will be prioritized if you plan to collect additional fruits from other farmers,<\/span>or market their produce creating new income opportunities for the latter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grants Application Form<\/a>
\nRED NEO Brief VM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Component C of RED-NEO Program aims to bond the results of Components A and B, and give program beneficiaries upgrade their production with hard investment and escalate business growth.   The conditions and limitations of getting a small grant within the frames of RED-NEO program is presented below: – The grants will be disbursed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-activities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/red-neo.am\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}