Deadline: 22-Apr-21
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a Fixed Amount Award (FAA) from qualified entities to implement the Strengthened Investigative Journalism in Natural Resources Management and Other Economic Governance Issues (REAJIR).
The goal of this activity is for Mozambican citizens to be better informed and motivated to participate in governance processes. The activity’s purpose is to strengthen investigative journalism in Mozambique in the areas of reporting on natural resources and economic governance. To achieve this purpose, the activity will:
- strengthen the skills of Mozambican journalists to investigate natural resources management and other economic governance-related issues to improve accountability in those areas;
- support investigative journalism initiatives; and,
- improve advocacy mechanisms for investigative journalists.
The activity will provide specific training and investigative incentives for at least fifty (50) journalists and six (6) media outlets nationwide. To ensure that information is produced and reported back to communities where the natural resources abound and are extracted, and in order to align the program with USAID’s geographic scope, at least ten (10) journalists and three (3) media houses should be selected from the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and Zambézia.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $1,400,000
- Award Floor: $1,400,000
- The anticipated period of performance is three (3 years).
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility for this RFA is restricted to Local Mozambican Organizations (Local Entities) as defined.
- To be considered a “local” organization, USAID defines an entity that must:
- Be organized under the laws of the recipient country;
- Have its principal place of business in the recipient country;
- Be majority owned by individuals who are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the recipient country; and/or
- Be managed by a governing body, the majority of whom are citizens or lawful permanent residents of a recipient country
- Not be controlled by a foreign entity or by an individual or individuals who are not citizens or permanent residents of the recipient country.
- The term “controlled by” means a majority ownership or beneficiary interest, or the power, either directly or indirectly, whether exercised or exercisable, to control the election, appointment, or tenure of the organization’s managers or a majority of the organization’s governing body by any means, e.g., ownership, contract, or operation of law. “Foreign entity” means an organization that fails to meet any part of the “local organization” definition.
- Government controlled and government owned organizations in which the recipient government owns a majority interest or in which the majority of a governing body are government employees, are included in the above definition of local organization.
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