Deadline: 31-Jul-23
USADF invites applications from registered African agricultural cooperatives, producer groups, processors, and enterprises for grant financing.
Grants will support solutions that extend your organizations’ own capabilities to increase your revenues, create jobs, improve farmer incomes, and achieve sustainable market-based growth.
Innovative approaches to agricultural and economic development will also be considered. This includes, but is not limited to digitization, information technology, agricultural solutions using renewable energy.
Funding Information
- Maximum award US $250,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- USADF is accepting applications in the following countries:
- Burkina Faso: Only funding requests will be accepted from agricultural cooperatives, producer groups and formalized agricultural processors in Burkina Faso who work directly in the cashew, honey/beeswax, corn, rice, butter sector(s) of shea, cotton, and livestock.
- Cote d’Ivoire: Only funding requests will be accepted from agricultural cooperatives, producer groups and formalized agricultural processors in Côte d’Ivoire who work directly in the cashew, cocoa, cassava, rice sector(s), livestock, market garden products (eggplant, tomato) and the use of renewable energies in agricultural equipment.
- Nigeria: Proposals will only be accepted from registered agricultural cooperatives, producer groups, and agricultural processors that work directly in the rice, cassava, and aquaculture value chains. The entities must be located in the Federal Capital Territory, Nasarawa, Kano and Kaduna States of Nigeria.
- South Sudan: Proposals will only be accepted from registered agricultural cooperatives, producer groups, and agricultural processors in South Sudan working directly in the sesame, maize, sorghum, cassava, rice, peanut, and fishery sectors.
- The organization must demonstrate that it has successfully worked together for a minimum of 2 years, have a minimum of 200 active members or suppliers, and has the capability to effectively use grants funds.
- The ownership and management must be in agreement on the problem to be addressed and have a commitment to benefit their community.
- The organization must have basic functional management and financial controls for a minimum of 2 years to demonstrate capability to account for USADF funds.
- Organizations must be 100% Africa-owned and led.
Criteria
Successful proposals must:
- Have a clearly defined market opportunity to grow revenues that can increase incomes.
- Have a clearly defined plan of how they can increase revenues and incomes in 2- 4 years.
- Be able to make significant cash or in-kind contributions to the project.
- Be able to directly impact hundreds of people and community members.
- Be able to identify a path for growth after the USADF grant ends.
- Special consideration will be given to applications that incorporate innovative strategies to make use of new approaches and technologies, including complementary finance and information technology.
- Special consideration will also be given to women owned organizations and applications that promote youth.
For more information, visit USADF.