Deadline: October 23, 2025
The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock of the Republic of Zambia, with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), invites eligible livestock actors to apply for the Matching Grant Facility (MGF) under the Enhanced Smallholder Livestock Investment Programme (E-SLIP).
The Matching Grant Facility aims to increase productivity, scale innovations, and strengthen market linkages across the livestock value chain through co-financed investments by individuals, cooperatives, research institutions, and private sector actors.
The Matching Grant Facility provides three windows for funding. Window 1 offers small grants for catalyzing on-farm productivity, targeting smallholder livestock farmers, women, youth, and cooperatives for activities such as forage production, animal housing, water supply, and small equipment, with a grant size ranging from K25,000 to K150,000 and a minimum 50% co-financing requirement. Window 2 provides medium grants to support business expansion and innovation within agribusinesses, registered cooperatives, and veterinary or feed service providers, covering tool upgrades like milk chilling tanks, digital tools, and aggregation centres, with a grant size between K150,001 and K500,000 and a 50% co-financing requirement. Window 3 supports large grants for strategic investments that focus on transforming the livestock value chain via large-scale, market-oriented infrastructure, research, and partnerships, open to established private firms, consortia, large cooperatives, and research institutions, and includes activities like cold chain logistics, meat and milk processing, livestock hubs, and vaccine or drug production, with a grant size of K500,001 to K2,500,000 and a minimum co-financing of 50%.
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