FONDATION SUEZ: Grants to support Underprivileged Populations

FONDATION SUEZ is offering grants for favouring access to essential services – water, sanitation, and waste management – for underprivileged populations in developing countries. In France, they are combating social exclusion whilst respecting the participation and dignity of all.

The Foundation gives priority to applicants possessing local divisions or reporting a very close partnership with a local structure, facilitating project follow-up and an ex-post follow-up of the projects.

Through its support, the Fondation SUEZ wishes to:

• Reinforce the expertise of local players and circulate expertise by supporting actions to professionalize services, put in place specific training programs and foster networking between players.
• Boost innovation and research applied to the realities of the field in developing countries, namely via the organization of a Prize to reward and promote innovative projects having proven their worth and which can be replicated.
• Contribute to the sustainability and replicability of impact or potential impact projects (innovation, new model.