Anne Fransen Fund - Consumers International

The Anne Fransen Fund aims to promote and support the growth of consumer organisations in developing countries. It was founded in 1988 following the death in 1981 of Anne Fransen, the first director of Consumers International member organisation, Consumentenbond.

Since the fund’s foundation, nearly a million euros have been invested in building consumer organisations around the world.

About the fund

The Anne Fransen Fund’s mission is to advance the position of consumers in developing economies through building consumer organisations and funding campaigning projects. The fund itself is made up of contributions from individual members of the Dutch consumer body.

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.

Anne Fransen, the first director of Consumers International member organisation, Consumentenbond.

2021 Projects

Consumers International is delighted to announce that six of our members have been chosen to receive funding through the Anne Fransen Fund (AFF). This year’s winners are from Chile, Columbia, Fiji, Nepal, India, and Vietnam.

Read our news release to learn more about each project and the member organisations that are delivering them.

The deadline for applications to the Anne Fransen Fund 2021 is 8^th February 2021.

Further information about the fund can be found on the Consumentenbond website. Read about previous projects funded through the AFF: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

To be eligible for the Anne Fransen Fund, your application must meet the following criteria:

Primary application Criteria

Proposals that do not meet all of these eight criteria will be disqualified.

You have to be a member (Full or Affiliate) of Consumers International from a developing country (see OECD DAC List of ODA recipients).
Consumers International membership fees must be paid in full up to and including the current year 2020.
The proposal must address one of the AFF priority areas (financial services, consumer justice and protection, food, digital, drugs and health).
The project must be executed within one year.
The budget must not be more than 10,000 Euros.
The proposal should be clearly linked to one or more consumer rights -safety, information, choice, participation and representation, the satisfaction of basic needs, complaints and redress, consumer education, healthy living/working environment
Applicants must be free from unethical practises including financial and legal issues that may affect the organisation’s legal status or their continuing eligibility for Consumers International membership.
Overhead and indirect costs (i.e. venue, food, travel, staff and volunteer costs, etc) must not take up more than 40% of the budget.

Evaluation Criteria

Proposals will be reviewed according to a scoring system taking into account the following criteria:

The project objectives comply with the primary criteria.
The project objectives are clearly defined with Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) that are measurable and realistic.
Planned activities are realistic and well designed.
The project team has the skills required to effectively deliver the project.
The budget is realistic and well designed.
Stakeholders involved in the project are relevant with their role well defined and there is a credible expectation of cooperation.
The project contributes to strengthening the organisation’s institutional capacity.
The impact of the project can be sustained beyond the one-year lifetime of the project

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What type of projects are funded?

Examples of projects which have benefited from the Anne Fransen Fund over the last few years include:

The IBON Foundation in the Philippines – Developing consumer rights education in schools.
Voluntary Organisation in Interest of Consumer Organisation, India – Testing and analysing food and drink sold in school canteens, the findings to be published in a traffic light rating system for the formulation of healthy eating guidelines.
Consumer Defense Association (ADECO), Cape Verde – To promote the protection of consumers of financial services in the area of money transfers.
Consumers Association of Penang (CAP), Malaysia – An awareness campaign to reduce consumption of instant noodles amongst Malaysians, encourage the adoption of a healthier diet and advocate for mandatory labelling of processed foods.
Yemen Association for Consumer Protection, Yemen – Testing of pharmaceutical items exposed to bad storage conditions.

Children in Zimbabwe learn financial literacy by raising and selling chickens

Consumer Association of India, India – Campaign to raise awareness of the risks of unsafe drinking water.
ADELCO, Argentina – To educate women in subjects regarding nutrition, health and environment thereby improving the quality of lives of families who live in socially and economically vulnerable neighbourhoods.

About the fund

2021 Projects

How to apply

Primary application Criteria

Evaluation Criteria

What type of projects are funded?

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