(February 2020)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the primary source of funding through which the U.S. Government provides grants to NGOs around the world. Every year, USAID releases various funding calls in the areas of peace, health, environment, gender equality, human rights, food & nutrition, children, WASH and youth to assist NGOs, CBOs and other organizations from the best available sources.
Check out the list of USAID’s grant programs and free downloadable resources for NGOs addressing to solve the most challenging issues around the world.
New Grant Opportunities for NGOs
NGOs are invited to apply for the USAID’s $15,500,000.00 Grant Opportunity for three year period
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Greater Internet Freedom (GIF) program. This funding opportunity is authorized under the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) of 1961, as amended….[more]
USAID is inviting Expressions of Interest from NGOs for this Grand Challenge for Development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is inviting expression of interest from NGOs and companies to co-create, co-design, co-invest and collaborate on research and development interventions to address issues related water and energy under the Water and Energy for Food (WE4F): A Grand Challenge for Development Regional Innovation Hubs…[more]
USAID Funding Opportunity for MOMENTUM Call for Applications
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) and Office of Population and Reproductive Health (PRH) are pleased to announce the Moving Integrated, Quality Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Family Planning and Reproductive Health (MNCH/FP/RH) Services to Scale (MOMENTUM) Annual Program Statement (APS)…[more]
USAID’s New Partnerships Initiative to engage with new local partner NGOs
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced the New Partnerships Initiative (NPI): Conflict-Prevention and Recovery Program (CPRP). Through this Annual Program Statement (APS), entitled New Partnerships Initiative (NPI): Conflict Prevention & Recovery Program (CPRP), USAID announces its desire to engage new and underutilized partners to expand and amplify the Agency’s work, particularly in contexts at the risk of, or recovering from, violent conflict…[more]
USAID announces Funding Rounds under New Partnerships Initiative
The United States Agency for International Development has announced the New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) Global Health Annual Program Statement (APS) (known hereafter as NPI GH APS). Through this APS, USAID announces its desire to engage locally-based new and underutilized partners to expand and amplify the Agency’s work in the health sector…[more]
USAID Economic Development, Governance and Enterprise Growth Project (EDGE): Request for Applications
International Development Group LLC (IDG) is seeking applications from qualified applicants in the Western Balkans countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia; the Caucasus countries of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan; and the Western Newly Independent States (NIS) countries of Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus (UMB), to enable inclusive, sustainable economic growth by supporting intra-regional and Euro-Atlantic integration under the regional USAID Economic Development, Governance and Enterprise Growth Project (EDGE)…[more]
USAID announces Localization of Disaster Risk Reduction in the Pacific
Under this Annual Program Statement (APS), the United States Agency for Development (USAID), Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, will consider applications to fund local actors to implement disaster risk reduction programs in small Pacific Island countries and further the goals of small Pacific Island countries journey to self-reliance…[more]
USAID seeks Innovative Solutions to facilitate Private Sector Engagement in East Africa
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced the East Africa Private Sector Engagement in Support of Prosper Africa Annual Program Statement (APS) (known hereafter as East Africa Prosper APS)…[more]
USDA-FAS seeking Proposals for Improving the Measurement of Market Systems Resilience in Kenya
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Global Programs (GP) seeks the provision of technical assistance to improve its understanding of market system resilience. Specifically, USDA/FAS and USAID/Kenya and East Africa (KEA) seek to support exploratory research to develop, field test, refine hypotheses, and draft indicators and tools for measuring critical factors that enable market systems to adapt and transform in the face of shocks and stresses…[more]
Call to empower Local Actors in Vietnam for addressing Environmental Health Challenges
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Vietnam is seeking applications for a fixed amount award from eligible prospective Vietnam organizations to implement the program entitled “USAID Local Works for Environmental Health”…[more]
Grant Opportunity to increase Youth Participation in Civic and Economic Opportunities (Ukraine)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the Regional Contracting Office in Kyiv, Ukraine is seeking applications from qualified U.S. or Non-U.S. non-profit or for-profit Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and other qualified non-USG organizations for funding of an activity entitled “Ukraine National Identity Through Youth (UNITY) Activity”…[more]
USAID inviting Concept Notes for increasing access to clean Water and Sanitation in Nigeria
The U. S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Global Health (USAID/GH) is seeking concept papers under Round 4 entitled” Water Resources Management for Enhanced Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WRM-WASH)”…[more]
USAID announced grants to support NGOs working to eliminate Tuberculosis in Vietnam
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Vietnam is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the program entitled “USAID Support to End Tuberculosis”. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) aims to end TB by 2030, working through its National TB Program (NTP)…[more]
USAID announces Promoting Human Rights in Cuba
The Office of Cuban Affairs of the USAID Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC/Cuba) is seeking concept papers from U.S. and non-U.S. organizations for partnership under the Promoting Human Rights in Cuba Annual Program Statement (APS)…[more]
USAID-Manila announces Initiatives for Democracy Annual Program Statement
The United States Agency for International Development mission in the Philippines (USAID or USAID/Philippines) is pleased to announce the Initiatives for Democracy Annual Program Statement (APS). Through this APS, USAID is soliciting applications for effective and innovative approaches and interventions…[more]
USAID: Inviting Applicants for ‘Placing Millions of Pakistani Youth in Jobs’ Program
Pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 as amended, United States Government as represented by the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking concept papers through this APS to engage and build partnerships with the private sector…[more]
USAID-Manila: Natural Resource Security and Governance
The United States Agency for International Development mission in the Philippines (USAID or USAID/Philippines) is pleased to announce the Natural Resource Security and Governance Annual Program Statement (APS). Through this APS, USAID is soliciting concept notes that propose effective and innovative approaches and interventions that contribute to achieving the mission’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS), and explicitly, the development objective of “Environmental and Community Resilience Enhanced”…[more]
Free Downloadable Resources for NGOs
Water and Conflict: A Free Toolkit for Programming
Water and Conflict toolkit is part of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict and fragility. By exploring waterrelated issues in depth, this toolkit and others in the series serve as companion pieces to conflict assessments. Conflict assessments provide a broad overview of destabilizing patterns and trends in a society…[more]
USAID’s Free Toolkit on Youth and Conflict
This toolkit is part of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. One area that is receiving increasing attention is the relationship between young people and violence. Recent studies have found a significant correlation between large youth cohorts and political instability and violence…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Analysis: Toward Gender Equality in Europe and Eurasia
‘Toward Gender Equality in Europe and Eurasia: A Toolkit for Analysis’, has been prepared to provide USAID Mission staff working in the E&E region with a resource for conducting gender analysis in the context of project design. The Toolkit provides an overview of the relevance of gender analysis to USAID development goals and uses the Six Domains Framework as a sample gender analysis methodology…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Intervention on Land & Conflict
The purpose of this Land & Conflict toolkit is to provide a practical introduction to the relationship between land and violent conflict. The relationship is stark, whether they are talking about how land issues function as causal or aggravating factors in conflict, or whether we are thinking about land-related issues that arise in post-conflict settings. The toolkit is also designed to familiarize practitioners with a range of relevant programmatic interventions and to sensitize officers to the fact that development activities, including non-land related interventions, such as infrastructure projects and the exploitation of underground resources, can inadvertently cause land conflicts to erupt…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Programming on Minerals and Conflict
This toolkit for development agency practitioners on the management of mineral wealth and its links to conflict is part of a series commissioned by USAID from leading environment and security practitioners, exploring how development assistance can address key natural resource-related risk factors. Other papers in this series focus on land use conflicts, on water and on timber…[more]
A Free Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluation of Human Resources for Health
This handbook provides tools to increase the technical capacity needed for monitoring and evaluating human resources for health. It brings together an analytical framework with strategy options for improving the health workforce information and evidence base, as well as country experiences to highlight approaches that have worked…[more]
A Free Safety and Security Toolkit: Strengthening the Implementation of HIV Programs
A guide to help HIV programme implementers, particularly those working in direct service delivery, address safety and security challenges when implementing programmes for and with key populations…[more]
A Free Gender Analysis Toolkit for Key Population HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment Programs
This toolkit outlines key considerations and steps for conducting a gender analysis, explains how to engage with stakeholders, provides tools and resources, and gives examples of gender analyses conducted in Kenya and Cameroon…[more]
A Free Life Skills Education Toolkit for Orphans & Vulnerable Children in India
This resource ‘Life Skills Education Toolkit for Orphans & Vulnerable Children in India’ is funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID)…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Integrating LGBT Activities into Programming
This Toolkit contains resources to assist Europe and Eurasia (E&E) region Mission staff and implementing partners to increase and improve the LGBT community’s involvement in development programming…[more]
Free Intimate Partner Violence and Land Toolkit
This Toolkit focuses on a subset of GBV: violence perpetrated by intimate or marital partners and experienced by women. The Toolkit defines intimate partner violence (IPV) to include emotional, physical, and sexual violence committed by a current or former partner or spouse. We focus on IPV rather than the broader category of gender-based violence, because the literature on linkages between land tenure and IPV is more developed than the literature on land tenure and the GBV…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Gender-Based Violence Interventions along the Relief to Development Continuum
USAID developed this toolkit to support the implementation of the U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence Globally. It provides guidance to USAID staff, implementing partners and the larger community of international relief and development practitioners on how to monitor and evaluate gender-based violence (GBV) interventions along the Relief to Development Continuum (RDC)…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Youth from Youth: Addressing Corruption in Education
A Free Toolkit for Youth from Youth on Addressing Corruption in Education was developed in the framework of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Europe & Eurasia Social Legacy Program (E&E SLP)…[more]
A Free Toolkit on “How to Program Digital Tools into Agriculture Programs”
Digital technology has enormous potential to improve food security in Feed the Future countries and around the world. The purpose of this toolkit is to demonstrate the importance of digital tools in agriculture. It will give a brief overview of the digital tools that are currently being used in the field by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Missions and implementers and resources for those attempting to implement digital tools in their programs…[more]
A Free Guide on Strengthening Civil Society through Social Media
Social Networking: A Guide to Strengthening Civil Society through Social Media (#SMGuide4CSO) offers a high level overview of best practices used in social media for advocacy. Realizing the ever-changing landscape of social media, we have tried to avoid focusing on details associated with individual social platforms, as there are many and keeping track of them is almost impossible. Instead, we offer NGOs a solution on how to approach social media as a whole, no matter the platform, and how to reach their intended programmatic goals using the medium…[more]
A Free Building a Safer World: Toolkit for Integrating GBV Prevention and Response into USAID Energy and Infrastructure Projects
This toolkit supports the U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence Globally. It provides guidance and resources for USAID technical and program officers to integrate gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response into energy and infrastructure projects as required by Automated Directives System (ADS)…[more]
A Free Practical Guide to Women in Energy Regulation
This guide was made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This guide provides strategies for energy regulators to better integrate women in multiple facets of energy regulation, including employment, energy regulatory policy, and energy infrastructure projects…[more]
A Free Resource Guide on Child, Early, And Forced Marriage
This resource guide provides information on how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) sectors, missions, and staff can integrate child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) prevention and response into their programming. The guide provides both the rationale of why and approaches to how USAID’s efforts can address CEFM…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Climate-Resilient Water Utility Operations
The Toolkit for Climate-Resilient Water Utility Operations provides methodologies for a water utility to develop three documents that are essential to improve its climate resilience: a vulnerability assessment, a climate-resilient business plan, and an emergency response plan…[more]
