CANBERRA – From Feb. 26, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will open a new round of funding as part of the Business Partnerships Platform, focused solely on ideas supporting economic and social development in India.
The BPP is an initiative of Australia’s aid program that aims to promote private sector engagement in development by contributing money to support, advance, and scale projects that are both commercially viable and socially impactful. Previously, there have been two rounds of the BPP supporting a total of 19 initiatives responding to a range of development challenges including agriculture, finance, and health. But so far, projects from India have been excluded from the geographic scope of funding.
The new round will see funding for four or five partnerships, with a particular need for projects supporting agribusiness, health as well as energy and resources, in line with DFAT’s program of work to support the economic development of India.