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As of 2003, the co-financing programme has been structurally revised with respect to the way in which financing is allocated and to the conditions under which organisations are allowed to enter the programme. In the new scheme, the broad-based co-financing programme (MFP-broad), financing is no longer allocated to the group of CFOs as a whole, but to each CFO separately. To qualify for the subsidy, the CFOs must each submit a business plan once every four years. Based on this business plan, the Ministry decides if the organisation is eligible to participate in the programme.
The main objective of the broad-based co-financing programme (MFP-broad) is “to promote the structural alleviation of poverty in the South and in the poorest Central and Eastern European countries and to achieve universally recognised human rights”. The programme will pursue its goals through three interlinked intervention strategies: direct poverty alleviation, civil society building and advocacy work.