Deadline: 20-Oct-22
The United States Agency for International Development in Ecuador (USAID/Ecuador) is seeking applications from qualified entities, non- and for-profit organizations, to participate in New Environmental and Economic Reactivation Partnerships Initiative – Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)/ Annual Program Statement (APS).
The Ecuador New Environmental and Economic Reactivation Partnerships Initiative seeks to engage the private and civil sectors in priority areas: seascape conservation, illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUUF), ocean plastic pollution, sustainable forests management, forest carbon sequestration and economic reactivation.
Thematical Areas
- Strengthening Galapagos Seascapes Governance and Ensuring the Sustainable Management of Shark and Ray Populations
- Strengthening Solid Waste Management in the Galapagos and Coastal Mainland Ecuador
- Sustainable Forest Management and Carbon Sequestration in the Amazon
- Economic Reactivation with Women-Led and -Owned Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $50,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $50,000,000
- Award Floor: $500,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Implementing Partners are non-governmental or private sector entities (for-and nonprofit). Implementing Partners may provide leverage themselves (which cannot include USG funding from other sources). The preference is that implementing partners secure outside funding from a Resource Partner for the projects they propose to implement.
- USAID/Ecuador, in particular, is interested in working with Implementing and Resource Partners from the private sector and civil society that will mobilize domestic resources for development. This includes non-traditional development partners such as private businesses, business and trade associations, foundations, financial institutions, nonprofit NGOs and for-profit development firms, and private educational institutions.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339673