Deadline: 3-Apr-23
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is announcing the Year 4 New Partnerships Initiative (NPI)/Conflict-Prevention and Recovery Program (CPRP).
Through this Annual Program Statement (APS), USAID announces its desire to engage new, nontraditional, and local partners to expand and amplify the Agency’s work, particularly in contexts at the risk of, or recovering from, conflict or violence.
The overall goal of NPI is to help the Agency partner with new, nontraditional, and local actors to advance their development goals—while elevating the quality of the partnerships through strengthened accountability, capacity, and local leadership.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $49,999,000
- Award Floor: $250,000
Principles Guide
Three principles guide the perspective on the partnerships that they wish to support:
- Promote local leadership. They will work through local actors and systems while engaging both new and established partners to strengthen local leadership in development.
- Seek innovative approaches to strengthening the capacity, performance, and accountability structures of partners and systems. They will capitalize on the full marketplace of ideas and solutions by collaborating with partners from all sectors of society, while supporting mutual accountability and equity.
- Identify new and nontraditional sources of funding to sustain partnerships and scale impact. They will pursue partnerships that leverage non-U.S. government funding sources to enhance local ownership and support effective collaboration across the spectrum of humanitarian and development funders.
Eligibility Criteria
- Local entities and local government institutions: A local entity is an individual or organization that:
- Is legally organized under the laws of a country that is receiving assistance from USAID;
- Has its principal place of business or operations in a country receiving assistance from USAID;
- Is majority-owned by individuals who are citizens or lawful permanent residents of a country receiving assistance from USAID; and
- Is managed by a governing body, the majority of whom are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the country receiving assistance from USAID.
- Locally Established Partners (LEPs): A U.S. or international organization that works through locally led operations and programming models. LEPs:
- Have maintained continuous operations in-country for at least five years and materially demonstrate a long-term presence in a country through adherence or alignment to the following:
- Local staff comprise at least 50% of office personnel;
- Maintenance of a dedicated local office;
- Registration with the appropriate local authorities,
- A local bank account; and
- A portfolio of locally implemented programs.
- Locally led operations in this definition describe arrangements in which local citizens beneficiary interests and the power (either directly or indirectly and whether exercised or exercisable) to control, by any means, the election, appointment, or tenure of the organization’s managers or a majority of the organization’s governing body.
- Have maintained continuous operations in-country for at least five years and materially demonstrate a long-term presence in a country through adherence or alignment to the following:
- Non-local organizations: This approach may include any U.S.-based or international nontraditional partner that could play a unique role in a given sector or context in the local system, including cooperatives, diaspora groups, faith-based organizations, Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) or other underutilized U.S. higher education institutions, and U.S. small businesses.
- Nontraditional partners are defined as organizations that have received less than $25 million in direct or indirect awards from USAID over the past five years.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339216