ELIGIBILTY & CRITERIA

FAO's Governing Bodies have decided upon a series of criteria that are to govern the use of TCP resources. Every request for TCP assistance is therefore appraised against these criteria in order to determine its eligibility.

There are in total 10 Criteria for Development TCP assistance and 10 Criteria for Emergency TCP assistance. The TCP Criteria, as endorsed by FAO Governing Bodies, are described in the TCP Criteria Table.

A more in-depth description is provided below for the TCP Criteria No.1 – Country eligibility:

The TCP is accessible to all member countries. However, FAO’s Governing Bodies decided in November 2005 that the TCP should give special attention to the neediest countries, defined as the Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

FAO’s Members that are high-income developing and developed countries can access TCP on a full-cost recovery basis. Other FAO member countries not falling into these categories (generally classified by the World Bank as middle-income economies) benefit from TCP assistance on a grant basis. All countries have access to emergency and regional TCP assistance on a full-grant basis.

The lists of countries in the various categories are provided below:

– The LIFDC classification is reviewed regularly by FAO.

– The LDC, LLDC and SIDS lists are maintained by the Office of the High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS.

– The list of high-income and middle-income countries is published on the World Bank’s Web site.

Small grant, big impact

Small TCP contributions can have significant development impacts. TCP helps member countries to address the challenges posed by an increasingly globalized and liberalized international environment.

Documents on eligiblity criteria

Resources