Subsidy Programme for Responsible Business (SPVO)

Overview

This subsidy programme aims to support Dutch companies and their local suppliers in production countries in strengthening business practices to better address social risks in their value chains.

SPVO aims to support supply chain partners that want to strive for a sustainable business model and improve social sustainability in their value chain by:

1. Investigating risks and abuses;
2. Increasing transparency;
3. Integrating their sustainability and sourcing goals;
4. Improving their due diligence processes;
5. Setting up long-term cooperation and dialogue;
6. Developing and carrying out an improvement action plan; and
7. Contributing to local capacity building.

Your partnership consists of at least the following parties:

• 1 company with a branch or permanent office in the Netherlands;
• 1 local company;
• 1 local social organisation, a local civil society organisation or a social organisation with sufficient knowledge of the local context and a local network.

Please check the project's website for dates of the calls for proposals. You will need to find a Dutch company to partner with.

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