Deadline: 25-Aug-2025
The U.S. Mission to Malawi has announced a call for proposals aimed at strengthening transparency and governance in Malawi’s extractive industry and public debt management. The initiative is designed to create a stable economic environment for the mining sector by enhancing oversight of fiscal operations, improving mining data reporting systems, ensuring timely access to standardized public debt data, and training citizens to hold authorities accountable while advocating for their rights to benefit from local mining projects.
The program seeks to achieve four main objectives: increasing transparency in mining contract awards and public debt management, improving public access to information on Malawi’s debt portfolio, enhancing data literacy and usage related to mining and debt, and ensuring transparency in the collection and distribution of mining revenues.
It aims to promote public access to information about mining licenses, contract awards, beneficial ownership, and public debt. Expected outcomes include greater transparency in natural resource contracts and debt processes, reduced corruption and illicit practices through monitoring, and fairer taxation and revenue use that benefits local communities.
The estimated total funding for the program is $781,854, which is also the maximum and minimum amount that can be awarded. The program is set to run for a duration of 24 months.
Eligible applicants include not-for-profit organizations such as think tanks and NGOs, public and private educational institutions, public international organizations, and governmental institutions.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.