Anne Fransen Fund 2026 opens for applications
Find out how to apply for a grant to help build capacity, drive campaigns in awareness and education, and empower communities to understand their consumer rights.
The Anne Fransen Fund is now open for new grant applications from Consumers International Members.
Since 2009, more than 100 grants have supported leading consumer organisations in low- and middle-income countries, helping to build capacity, drive campaigns in awareness and education, and empower communities to understand their consumer rights.
Each year grants of up to €10,000 are awarded to Consumers International Members to carry out projects linked to one of the eight basic consumer rights.
Wide-ranging in their scope, these have included digital literacy programmes and education on personal debt, to creating consumer support platforms, public health programmes on nutrition and non-communicable diseases.
Each of these is designed by the consumer organisation – with their in-depth understanding of consumers informing effective delivery to meet local challenges.
Anne Fransen Funded projects in the last decade
With a grant from the Anne Fransen Fund, ANAC, the National Association of Consumers in Armenia, collaborated with teachers and parents in 2019 to set up consumer rights clubs in schools across three of the country’s provinces. The clubs taught young consumers about their rights and duties, supporting them to make informed decisions in the future, producing a cartoon and book, which has been shared with many more schools and available in the National Library. ANAC has since submitted the book to the Education Ministry proposing its inclusion in the school curriculum.
In 2024, REDECOMA, in Mali, received a grant to inform, raise awareness, and educate consumers and street food vendors about food safety and hygiene.
The initiative was designed to protect consumer rights in a country with a high rate of illiteracy. REDECOMA organised training sessions for 200 food vendors in the Bamako district of the country and worked with partners to improve sanitary and hygienic conditions in street food sales.
Consumer Voice in India highlighted digital literacy as a critical issue in 2017. India has one of the world’s fastest growing digital and mobile economies, but literacy is low among a quarter of the population. The project trained a group of digital consumer activists to educate vulnerable consumer groups. Since then, the breadth of Consumer Voice’s digital education programme has grown significantly.
2025 Fund Winners:
Consumers Association of Bangladesh: Enhancing financial literacy for consumer empowerment
Rwanda Consumers Rights Protection Organisation (ADECOR): Enhancing food safety practices
National Consumer Association of St. Lucia: Consumer Connect
Tanzania Consumer Advocacy and Research: Increasing consumer knowledge to minimize the risk of aflatoxin exposure on cereals used by children
Educar Consumidores: Strengthening the impact of the front-of-package labelling law for ultra-processed foods in Colombia
The Anne Fransen Fund is a chance to accelerate progress on some of the most pressing consumer issues our Members are tackling.
Find out how to apply here alongside more details about the process.
Good luck – we look forward to receiving your applications!
If you have questions, please address them to Members@consint.org.