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