Deadline: 26-May-23
Transforming Agriculture is seeking applications to participate in partnerships to implement activities that lead to the increased access to healthy diets, particularly for women and children, by improving the competitiveness, inclusiveness, and resilience of the food and agriculture systems in Ethiopia.
The Feed the Future Ethiopia Transforming Agriculture project is a 5-year project aimed to increase access to healthy diets, particularly for women and children, by improving competitiveness, inclusiveness, and resilience of the Ethiopian food and agriculture system. Transforming Agriculture uses a nutrition-led approach to reorient Ethiopia’s food system to address the desirability and convenience needs of consumers, particularly women, so they will purchase and consume more nutritious foods. Transforming Agriculture works to make key nutritious foods more available and increase household incomes so families can purchase these foods. Transforming Agriculture seeks to catalyze impact across 132 woredas.
Funding Information
- USD 250,000
Eligible Activities
- Market actors provide consistent inputs, services, financing, and market access to increase climate smart agricultural productivity and diversify production.
- Food and livestock markets align supply chains and distribution to meet demand.
- Efficient and market-oriented food environments provide value to suppliers and customers and create new jobs.
- Business Development Services (BDS) foster entrepreneurship, MSME growth and resilience.
- Market research services help food system actors innovate to meet changing consumer preferences particularly women’s preferences
- Agriculture and food system actors contribute to an enabling environment that fosters inclusive and sustainable growth and advances key social priorities
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must either be
- privately registered business operating in the food system in Ethiopia (examples: nurseries, livestock feed manufacturers, digital extension services providers)
- private sector associations, cooperatives and unions,
- universities and research institutions,
- locally registered nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that have a proven track record of supporting private sector partners, services, and agribusiness commercialization with smallholder farmers. Applicants should:
- Be legally and formally constituted under the laws of Ethiopia at the time of application.
- Be registered with Government of Ethiopia (submit registration certificate).
- Be tax compliant with government of Ethiopia tax regulations
- Applicants must contribute a minimum of 10% cost leveraging.
- Applicants must be willing to
- collaborate with Transforming Agriculture data reporting requirements and
- collaborate with a gender, youth and minority inclusion assessment of their organization and target grant activities, and consider the recommendations set forth by Transforming Agriculture’s technical team to improve social inclusion gaps.
- Concept notes from organizations that do not meet the above eligibility criteria will neither be reviewed nor evaluated.
- Individuals are not eligible to apply for this APS.
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