GRANT OPPORTUNITY FROM USAID

Last date : February 17, 2016

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General Information

Document Type: Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-388-16-000001 Funding Opportunity Title: Feed the Future Bangladesh Rice and Diversified Crops Activity Opportunity Category: Discretionary Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement Category of Funding Activity: Agriculture Category Explanation: Expected Number of Awards: 1 CFDA Number(s): Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes

Posted Date: Jan 13, 2016 Creation Date: Jan 13, 2016 Original Closing Date for Applications: Feb 17, 2016   Current Closing Date for Applications: Feb 17, 2016   Archive Date: Feb 21, 2016 Estimated Total Program Funding: $24,500,000 Award Ceiling: $24,500,000 Award Floor: $0

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants:	Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:	Applicants must be non-governmental U.S. and non U.S. entities and individuals, otherwise there is no restriction. Entities such as non-profit organizations, profit making concerns, Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs), Public International Organizations (PIOs), faith-based and community organizations, educational institutions, etc. are eligible to submit concept notes

Additional Information

Agency Name:	Agency for International Development
Description:	Issuance Date: January 13, 2016 Due date for Questions: January 26, 2016, 1400 Bangladesh Time Application deadline: February 17, 2016, 1400 Bangladesh Time Subject: Notice of Funding Opportunity (NFO) Number: RFA-388-16-000001: Feed the Future Bangladesh Rice and Diversified Crops Activity (RDC) The subject Notice of Funding Opportunity is seeking concept notes in the process for selecting an organization for a Cooperative Agreement from qualified US and non-US organizations to fund an activity titled the Feed the Future Bangladesh Rice and Diversified Crops Activity (formerly known as Strengthening Agriculture Production and Market Systems). The purpose of the Activity: USAID/Bangladesh intends to award a five year assistance activity not to exceed $24.5 million under the US Government’s Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative, through a competitive Notice of Funding Opportunity (NFO), subject to the availability of funding. The Feed the Future Bangladesh Rice and Diversified Crops activity will improve small-holder rice and rotation crop productivity and market system competitiveness by using facilitation and market systems approaches to catalyze systemic changes through partnerships with the private sector and local actors. Small-holder productivity will improve by strengthening input and seed systems and expand the adoption of improved rice and rotation crop technologies. Market competitiveness will increase by improving value chain efficiencies, access to finance, and post-harvest services. The activity will incentivize crop diversification with rotational crops such as value-added rice varieties, lentils, mustard, mung beans, sunflowers, and other crops with the overall objective of improved food security through systemic changes that increase rural incomes. The Feed the Future Bangladesh Rice and Diversified Crops (RDC) activity will have two phases: an initial phase to broadly test and prove core strategies and a second phase of scaling and expanding successful approaches to include additional partnerships, markets and beneficiaries. The RDC activity will support Government of Bangladesh (GoB) priorities and the recently finalized Seventh Five-Year Plan Agricultural Development Strategy and is also aligned with the Bangladesh Country Investment Plan (CIP), a five-year plan to ensure sustainable food security through public investment in agriculture, food security and nutrition. RDC is aligned with USAID/Bangladesh’s current Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) and the FTF multi-year strategy, and will support the new CDCS framework (2016-2021) by working to sustainably reduce poverty and improve food security. The RDC activity contributes directly to the global goal of FTF, working to sustainably reduce poverty and improve food security, and furthermore supports the GoB’s goal “for achieving poverty reduction through accelerated agricultural investment and growth, contributing to the transformation to a middle-income country by 2021.” The GoB has been an active partner in planning and implementing USAID/Bangladesh’s development programs.
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Contact Information:	If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: FLORENCE DAS Acquisition and Assistance Speciali Phone 88028855500 Assistance Specialist email For full announcement : http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=280925

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