The micro-project support program run by La Guilde in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD), CIRRMA, RRMA and the Agir Sa Vie Foundation, is offering you a new call for multi-thematic projects to enable you to set up development projects.
Calendar
- Closing of the call for projects : September 15, 2025 – 11:59 p.m. (GMT+2)
- Information meeting on July 29 2025 and August 19, 2025, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., via videoconference. To participate, please register via the following link: Registration for the IDF information meeting – Fall 2025
The lessors
The Autumn 2025 session offers international solidarity associations the opportunity to request several donors thanks to a single project submission via the platform (refer to the deposit help tutorial). Each donor has its own eligibility and project selection criteria.
The criteria mentioned in this article are therefore relative to the subsidies granted by La Guilde.
Regarding the terms of the Act Your Life Foundation, it is appropriate to refer to its regulation.
Funding
Two funding thresholds are possible:
1/ Between €3,000 and €12,500 : for all associations that meet the eligibility criteria ;
2/ Between 3,000 € and €20,000 : for associations meeting the eligibility criteria which have already benefited from Microproject funding from La Guilde having produced a quality final report, AND whose annual N-1 income statement is greater than €50,000.
The grant awarded may in no case represent more than 50% eligible expenses of the project, including local developments.
The remaining 50 % can be provided by own resources and/or by other donors (minimum 25% of the project budget) and valuations (maximum 25% of the project budget).
These ineligible expenses can nevertheless be mentioned in the project budget but must be covered by another donor or by the association's own funds.
Eligibility criteria
The structure
- be governed by French law, under the 1901 law published in the official journal (or in the District Court for associations in Lorraine and Alsace),
- have more than 2 years of seniority on the closing date of the session have annual resources of less than 200,000 euros (N-1 income statements validated by the last General Meeting),
- have a legal existence and their own accounting (for regional branches of national structures),
- not to intervene within the framework of decentralized cooperation (twinning committees are not eligible).
Associations that have already received one or more co-financings from La Guilde and whose projects are still underway will not be considered as priority. In the event that an association wishes to present a new project during this session, an interim or final assessment of the current project must have been submitted and validated by La Guilde teams before the final funding allocation jury. Second-phase projects (duplication, expansion, etc.) cannot be the subject of a funding request until the assessment of the first project financed by La Guilde has been validated and the project has been closed.
The project
- be carried out in a country eligible for the OECD Development Assistance Committee (consult the list of eligible countries). Projects in France and Mali are not eligible. For Burkina Faso and Niger, projects covering primarily the health, nutrition, water/hygiene/sanitation and youth sectors (and subject to validation by the AFD) are eligible.
- have an implementation period of between 1 and 3 years (including monitoring and evaluation phases)
- present future activities and not past or current ones (if activities have already taken place in the past, they should be summarized in the historical section of the project). Expenses will be eligible from the closing date of the call for projects.
- be co-constructed with a local partner (moral and not physical group: association, cooperative, management committee, etc.) and be the subject of a partnership agreement signed by each of the parties.
- concern all themes of development aid (access to water, health, agriculture, education, etc.). Projects using sport as development tools are eligible.
Are not eligible
Projects are ineligible if their main theme relates to:
- of the emergency or immediate post-crisis,
- one-off projects,
- simple construction projects (without proven autonomy),
- feasibility studies, diagnostics,
- volunteering,
- sponsorship,
- youth or student work camps,
- productions of documentaries or artistic works,
- microfinance: micro-savings, micro-credit, micro-insurance.
Projects that have already received direct or indirect funding from (non-exhaustive lists) are not eligible:
– from the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE):
- Financial arrangements of the French Embassies,
- Youth, International Solidarity / City, Life, Vacation-International Solidarity (JSI/VVV-SI) schemes,
- Fonjep,
- Funds from the International Organization of the Francophonie from the MEAE.
– from the French Development Agency (AFD):
- Forum of International Solidarity Organizations from Migration (FORIM) in particular via the Support Program for Projects of International Solidarity Organizations from Immigration (PRA/OSIM),
- Small Initiatives Programme of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),
- Family Farming Promotion Scheme in West Africa of the French Committee for International Solidarity (CFSI).
Selection criteria
Particular attention will be paid to the following aspects:
Local anchoring: partnerships/collaboration with NGOs and other local associations, coordination with local policies, etc.
Relevance of the project: need expressed by the population, appropriate response, long-term objectives, etc.
Project sustainability: the project can continue, expand, be reproduced, it becomes autonomous in the medium term
Proportionality between expenditure and expected results
Ability to measure changes
Involvement of beneficiaries throughout the project
Taking into account cross-cutting themes (Gender, Youth, Environment).
The mobilization of volunteers (International Solidarity Volunteers and International Civic Service) is encouraged.