Apply for Fund for Responsible Business - FVO Pillar 1

This paragraph describes the procedure in several steps:

• We offer you a noncommittal orientation interview about the subsidy. If you are interested, please contact us by email at fvo@rvo.nl or telephone.
• Before you can submit an application, you will go through an advisory procedure. You can request this procedure through the quick scan as described on the FVO page. Our advisor will then contact you and begin the advisory procedure.
• After the advisory procedure, you can submit your final subsidy.
• Download the application form.
• Send in your application form and all annexes via eLoket.

You must complete the application form through our eHerkenning and upload or attach the following attachments. Please complete the attachments in English. Make sure to include all of the necessary signatures, also those of your partners.

The application includes a monitoring and effect Measurement (M&E) Plan that is in line with the FVO Theory of Change. We have defined standardised (M&E) indicators that you must integrate with your M&E plan as well as your specific project indicators.

Main applicant

The person responsible for submitting the application on behalf of the partnership is the main applicant. The main applicant bears the responsibility to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

We will first check if your application is complete. If this is the case, we will assess your application. If your application meets our criteria, we will assess its quality based on the policy criteria. This assessment is based on a system of point allocation. You will be notified whether your application has been approved within 13 weeks of receipt of your application.

Submit the completed application forms through eHerkenning:

• Annex Ia Project proposal Project A and B 2021 (word)
  - please include extra documents as mentioned in the annex in separate files
• Annex Ia Project proposal Project A and B 2021 (odt)
  - please include extra documents as mentioned in the annex in separate files

• Annex Ib Project proposal Project B 2021 (word)
  - please include extra documents as mentioned in the annex in separate files
• Annex Ib Project proposal Project B 2021 (odt)
  - please include extra documents as mentioned in the annex in separate files

• Annex IIa Project Budget calculation tool
• Annex IIb Result sheet

• Annex III Partner Form -per partner- (pdf)

• Annex IV Cooperation Agreement (pdf)

• Annex V Integrity policy, code of conduct(s) or other relevant documents (form free)

• Annex VI RBC policy of the Dutch company or companies (form free)

• Annex VII Two recent annual financial reports of the main applicant (form free)

• Annex VIII Authorisation Intermediary (pdf) (optional)