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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for cooperative agreements from qualified entities to implement the John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer Program.

Objectives

• The primary goal of F2F is to generate sustainable, broad-based economic growth in the agricultural sector. A secondary goal is to increase the American public’s understanding of international development issues and programs and international understanding of the U.S. and U.S. development programs.

• F2F objectives are to:

  • increase agricultural sector productivity and profitability;

  • improve conservation and sustainable use of environmental and natural resources;

  • expand sector access to financial services; and

  • strengthen agricultural sector institutions.

Funding Information

• Award Ceiling: $10,000,000.

Eligibility

• Private institutions of higher education

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

• For profit organizations other than small businesses

• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education

• Additional Information on Eligibility:

  • US Private Voluntary Organization (PVO);

  • a U.S. nonprofitagricultural organization;

  • a US agricultural cooperative; a private U.S. agribusiness oragriculturally-related business or consulting firm; private organization (including grassrootsorganizations with an established and demonstrated capacity to carry out such a bilateralexchange program), private corporation; or a college, university or foundation maintained by acollege or university.

  • Moreover, applicants must have within the past five (5) years a minimum oftwo (2) years’ experience in planning, managing, monitoring, and reporting on internationalagricultural development programs. For profit businesses must waive profits and/or fees to beeligible to submit a Concept Note. USAID strongly encourages applications from new USpartners.

• Applications may cover multiple regional programs or larger thematic programs in a given region. Regional program categories are listed:

  • East Africa

  • Southern Africa

  • West Africa

  • Caribbean Basin

  • Other – may include Country F2F Programs in core countries in: a) Middle East & North Africa; b) Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia; c) Latin America; d) Asia; or e) countries across multiple regions.

• Eligible Countries and Geographical Program Regions

  • Caribbean Basin: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago

  • Sub-saharan Africa: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, GuineaBissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

  • Other

    • Middle East: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, West Bank and Gaza

    • Asia / South Asia: Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam

    • Latin America: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru

    • Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia: Albania, Armenia Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Post Date: 24-Mar-2023