Ranking criteria
Applications that comply with the aforementioned threshold criteria and other conditions under the Policy Rules will be ranked on the basis of ranking criteria. The ranking criteria to be applied in the assessment are:

• Which developing country the project is being carried out for; projects carried out for focus countries Indonesia, Vietnam, Colombia, Nicaragua, Mali, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa take precedence over projects carried out for other ODA countries.
• The extent to which the project contributes to the goal of the Global Sustainable Biomass Fund as described in chapter 2 of the Policy Rules, in relation to the total costs eligible for subsidies of the project (subsidy effectiveness);
• the extent to which the project contributes to the themes of the Testing framework for sustainable biomass: 
  - greenhouse gas balance 
  - competition with food, local energy supply, medicines and building materials
  - biodiversity 
  - environment 
  - economic prosperity 
  - social well-being 
• the extent to which the project contributes to the goals listed in paragraph 3.1 of the Policy Rules:
  A. The promotion of sustainability of the biomass chain 
  B. Certification of the sustainable biomass chain
  C. Counteract undesired indirect effects of biomass production and monitoring of macro effects of biomass production 
• the extent to which the project connects, or aims to connect with local initiatives or ambitions to support and promote sustainability of the chain of biomass production for energy purposes; 
• the extent to which the project can be followed-up and can scale up;
• the extent to which the outcomes initiated and eventually to be expected benefit the local or national economy of the developing country concerned;
• the degree of contribution to the Millennium Development Goals for fighting poverty; 
• the organisation of the project and quality of the project proposal.       

An application must score sufficiently at these ranking criteria in order to be eligible for subsidy.

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