Grants for Promoting Innovative and Resilient Agriculture Market Systems in Mozambique

The PREMIER is a project to stimulate systemic change by addressing the root causes of poor agriculture system performance, targeting leverage points for catalytic change and working through market actors to facilitate technical and financial assistance to broaden and deepen market engagement, thus increasing incomes and creating employment opportunities, especially for youth and women.

Premier seeks to: incentivize responsible private investment; improve access to finance (including through matching grants and partnering with finance institutions); engage relevant actors to favorably influence the policy environment; facilitate market-based technical assistance to foster entrepreneurship (especially for youth and women); and build capacity and incentives for firms to diversify products and services and expand market share—all with the end goal of expanding job opportunities and increasing agriculture-based incomes in northern Mozambique.

USAID intends to award a single Cooperative Agreement pursuant to this notice of funding opportunity/RFA. Subject to funding availability and at the discretion of the Agency, USAID intends to provide $25.5 million in total USAID funding over a (five) 5- year period. Out of this total, $5M will be reserved for the Crisis Modifier to be programmed for unforeseen crisis/shocks (funds to be provided when and if need be). Actual funding amounts are subject to availability of funds.