Deadline: 27-Jul-22
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a Cooperative Agreement from qualified entities to implement the USAID Food Security, Nutrition, and Resilience Activity.
The goal of the Food Security, Nutrition and Resilience (FSNR) activity is to increase agricultureled economic growth, through improved productivity to enhance food security and nutrition. The FSNR activity promotes a shift from a historic focus on rice and cassava towards a diverse mix of nutritious and high-value crops. The FSNR activity will promote food security and nutrition by increasing the production, availability, utilization, and demand of diverse, nutritious, and highvalue crops. The sustainable intensification of diverse high-value crops will increase farmers’ incomes, strengthen household and community resilience, and promote broad economic growth. This activity will also contribute to the cross-cutting priorities of inclusive development, gender equality, youth engagement, and sustainable climate-smart agriculture.
The FSNR activity is a five-year activity with a total estimated amount of approximately $20 million. FSNR will target smallholder and subsistence farmers, agricultural cooperatives, and women and youth groups. This activity will be implemented in USAID/Liberia’s zone of influence (Lofa, Bong, Nimba, Margibi, Grand Bassa, and Montserrado); however, limited activities outside of the zone of influence will be considered if they align with program objectives, leverage other USAID, GOL or other donor and stakeholder programs, and have limited additional logistic requirements.
Funding Information
USAID intends to award a Cooperative Agreement pursuant to this notice of funding opportunity. Subject to funding availability and at the discretion of the Agency, USAID intends to provide $20,583,587 in total USAID funding over a five-year period.
Geographic Focus
USAID’s vision is that most of the activities will occur within USAID/Liberia’s zone of influence (Lofa, Bong, Nimba, Margibi, Grand Bassa, and Montserrado). However, this activity is open to limited activities outside of the zone of influence that align with the program objectives, that will contribute to the results, and have limited additional logistics requirements. In addition, activities that work with new and underutilized partners are encouraged.
Beneficiary Target Groups
USAID has identified three broad beneficiary groups for the FSNR activity: smallholder farmers and agricultural cooperatives, subsistence farmers, and women and youth groups. These three beneficiary groups are a general guide for defining the methodology around the selection of individuals, cooperatives, and farming groups that this activity intends to reach.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=341455