Food Waste Prevention and Diversion: Research and Capacity Building Fund

We are targeting research and capacity building projects that will inform the development and implementation of food and organic waste prevention or diversion interventions that contribute to long-term landfill methane emission reductions.

Eligible projects must satisfy 1 or more of the following criteria:

• Focus on research studies and/or pilot projects
• Provide publicly available results that may be leveraged by others
• Generate valuable insights and yield practical, evidence-based solutions that can be scaled to other regions and communities across Canada
• Increase capacity building, leverage collaborative partnerships and advance knowledge

Eligible expenses may include reasonable and properly itemized costs for:

• human resources, including salaries and benefits (directly associated with the project activities)
• consultants and contractors engaged to undertake project activities
• management and professional services (for example, accounting, audit, liability insurance costs that are directly attributed to carrying out the project, monitoring, legal or other professional fees translation)
• travel and field costs (please refer to the National Joint Council’s website for your province/territory kilometric rates)
• materials and supplies
• communication, production, distribution and printing costs
• equipment rentals and purchases, including research equipment and laboratory analyses
• vehicle rental and operation costs
• a reasonable share of overhead and/or administrative expenditures (for example, office supplies, rent) directly attributed to carrying out the project