Projects in the FACT program need to meet a range of criteria in order to safeguard their sustainability and their effectiveness. These criteria include the following:

• Socio-organizational criteria, e.g. the level of participation of the community and the strength of the implementing organization
• Technological criteria, e.g. the appropriateness of the proposed technology and its replication potential
• Financial economic criteria, e.g. the long-run commercial prospects and the risks for the actors involved
• Environmental criteria, e.g. the environmental impacts and the carbon payback of land conversion
• Innovativeness, i.e. the extent to which the project includes distinctive new in the field of biofuels for local development