Continental Annual Program Statement

1) USAID Innovation, Technology and Research (ITR) APS Addendum

This addendum to the continental-wide APS offered $250,000 to $425,000 and was closed on September 23rd, 2022. The addendum invited concepts covering specific priorities identified in the addendum within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Status: Under negotiations

2) Prosper Africa Catalytic Funding Opportunity APS Addendum

This addendum to the continental-wide APS offered $250,000 to $1,000,000 and was closed on February 28th 2023. The addendum invited concepts from organizations who can utilize USAID's grant capital to reduce risk, build track records, and scale financial offerings to businesses in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Status: Under negotiations

3) USAID Liberia Agribusiness Incubator APS Addendum

This addendum offered tiered funding to organizations and was closed on February 28th 2023. The addendum invited concepts from organizations that strengthen the commercial agricultural sector in Liberia by providing direct support to agribusinesses, support to incubator business service providers, and more.

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Status: Under negotiations

4) USAID Liberia Climate Finance Facility APS Addendum

This addendum offered $25,000 to $300,000 to organizations was closed on February 28th 2023. The addendum invited concepts from organizations whose concepts covered the development of pipeline for conservation finance and climate finance projects. This facility will provide both financing avenues and technical support

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Status: Under negotiations

5) East Africa Opportunity

This addendum to the continental-wide APS offered $250,000 to $1,000,000 for businesses creating jobs and driving trade and investment across East Africa and was closed on April 30th, 2023. The Addendum invited concepts covering specific priority sectors engaging one or more countries in the region including Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Djibouti, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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6) Kenya Menstrual Hygiene and Health (MHH)

This addendum to the continental-wide APS offered $250,000 to $1,000,000 for organizations that could demonstrate solutions for providing adequate MHH in the workplace that contribute to increased business and social outcomes, including women’s economic empowerment. The addendum was closed on May 31st, 2023.

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7) USAID Buyer-Supplier Trade Deals

This addendum offered $100,000 to $300,000 to submitted concepts from US facing African stakeholders engaged in Agriculture and Textile sectors to trigger significant demand-driven exports (intra- Africa and to the U.S). The addendum was closed on May 31st, 2023.

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Status: Under negotiations

8) USAID West Africa Conflict Prevention and Stability Grants

This addendum offered $100,000 to $1,000,000 to organization whose concepts supported the implementation of sustainable livelihood alternatives, providing trade and investment opportunities to promote community resilience in marginalized communities, in Ghana, Benin, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, and Guinea. The addendum was was closed on May 31st, 2023.

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Status: Under negotiations

9) USAID ZAMBIA Digital Finance Initiative Grants Opportunity

This RFA offered $100,000 to $250,000 to improve access to digital finance for Zambian SMEs, with a focus on women, youth located outside of urban areas, to increase rural incomes, employment and mitigating gender bias and gender-based violence.

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Status: Closed on September 15th, 2023.

10) USAID Continental Services - Climate Finance

This addendum offered $500,000 to $2,500,000 to businesses and financial intermediaries such as fund managers and financial institutions across the African continent whose core businesses and/or demonstrated pipeline of SMEs and growth-oriented businesses provided social, environmental, and financial return through climate finance. The addendum was closed on September 30, 2023.

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11) USAID Kenya East Africa Grants Opportunity

This addendum offered a matching grant of $250,000 to $1,000,000 per award to businesses creating jobs and driving trade and investment across East Africa covering specific priority sectors and engaging one or more countries in the region. The addendum was closed on September 30, 2023.

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12) Southern Africa Export Partnerships Opportunity

This addendum offered $100,000 to $500,000 grants for organizations that can bolster Southern African exports.

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Status: Under negotiations

13) USAID Kenya and East Africa - Private Sector Engagement at County Level

This Request For Application (RFA) offered grants ranging from $100,000 to $500,000 to establish partnerships with firms covering specific priority sectors within the four Kenyan counties of Nakuru, Isiolo, Kakamega and Kilifi. The RFA closed on November 30, 2023.

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14) USAID Kenya and East Africa - Women’s Entrepreneurship Incubation Program

This Request For Application (RFA) offered a standard grant of a maximum of $1,500,000 to establish a partnership with a suitable organization to support women’s entrepreneurship through promotion of incubation services which includes facilitation of business development services for Kenyan women-owned small and growing businesses (WO-SGBs) to increase investment and productivity. The RFA closed on December 15, 2023.

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15) USAID Ghana Grant Growth Fund

This addendum offered $100,000 to $500,000 to entrepreneurs and micro, small, and medium businesses in Ghana whose concepts seek to improve productivity and expand export capabilities in the agribusiness sector. The addendum was closed on December 31, 2023.

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Status: Under negotiations

16) USAID Ghana Climate Finance

This addendum offered $150,000 to $500,000 grants to local entities covering Green House Gas (GHG) mitigation and emission reduction activities supporting the country’s NDCs implementation and sustainable development objectives. The addendum was closed on December 31, 2023.

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Status: Under negotiations

17) USAID Kenya and East Africa - Imarisha Initiative

This Request For Application (RFA) offered performance-based grants ranging from $50,000 to $85,000 to establish partnerships with private sector firms in agro-processing and textile sectors to increase exports, sales, employment, and/or investment and at the same time expand economic opportunities for women. The RFA closed on December 31, 2023.

Learn More Information session presentation slides are available here and the recording is available here

18) USAID CARPE Grants Opportunity

This addendum offered $100,000 to $1,400,000 grants to corporations/businesses that sought to advance conservation and ecotourism in the Congo Basin (Central Africa Republic, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Republic of Congo (ROC), Equatorial Guinea and Gabon)

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19) USAID Kenya & East Africa (USAID/KEA) Regional Ocean Plastic

This addendum offered grants ranging from $250,000 to $1,000,000 to reduce ocean plastic pollution and create jobs in the plastics value chain in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan) by improving solid waste management and reducing, re-using, and recycling plastic. The addendum was closed on February 28, 2024.

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20) USAID DRC Minerals Grants Opportunity

This addendum offered grants ranging from $100,000 to $4,000,000 to corporates and businesses with innovative ideas and business models in the critical minerals space in the DRC.

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Status: Under negotiations

21) USAID Kenya & East Africa Health Partnerships Grants Opportunity

This Request For Application (RFA) offered grants ranging from $250,000 to $1,000,000 to fund private sector-oriented solutions in the health care sector that to address ATI’s objectives of increased trade, increased investment, and improved business environment. The RFA closed on March 31, 2024

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22) USAID MALI Boosting Financial Inclusion for Women and Youth MSMEs

This Request For Application (RFA) offered grants ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 committed to addressing the critical issue of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) access to finance by supporting private sector initiatives that offer innovative solutions to promote financial inclusion by expanding funding sources, harnessing opportunities from the diaspora and enhancing financial accessibility for agricultural MSMEs. Special emphasis will be placed on women and youth owned MSMEs and activities leveraging digital finance platforms and contribution to a more resilient and inclusive financial ecosystem. The RFA closed on March 31, 2024

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Status: Under negotiations

23) USAID Kenya & East Africa - Imarisha Initiative Grants Opportunity

This Request For Application (RFA) offered grants ranging from $50,000 to $85,000 to establish partnerships with private sector firms in agro-processing and textile sectors to increase exports, sales, employment, and/or investment and at the same time expand economic opportunities for women. The RFA closed on April 30, 2024

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24) USAID MALI Agribusiness Incubator RFA

This Request For Application (RFA) offered grants upto to $1,500,000 to applicants who use catalytic interventions to incubate innovative ideas from promising entrepreneurs or established MSMEs, increase their access to finance, foster an improved network of business service providers (BSPs), strengthen agriculture value chains, create jobs, and improve the overall business enabling environment for MSME development in Mali. The RFA closed on May 7, 2024

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Status: Under negotiations

25) USAID Local Market Catalyst for Health Grants in South Africa

The Local Market Catalyst for Health (LMC4H) activity aims to strengthen collaboration between the public and private sectors in South Africa to address electricity shortages at health clinics. The activity will test market-based, innovative energy solutions to meet local health clinics’ power requirements, inform a business/financing model for scaling solutions, and ultimately lead to improved patient care and health outcomes.

ATI seeks South Africa-based private sector energy solution providers to submit technical and cost applications to achieve the following three objectives: (1) Analyze the energy ecosystems at five Mpumalanga-based public health clinics; (2) Use results from those analyses to inform the procurement and installation of on-site technical solutions that mitigate the negative impacts of power outages; and (3) Implement thorough, sustainable systems for operations and maintenance (O&M) of the technical solutions. 

This Request for Applications (RFA) offers a total funding ceiling of US$ 500,000 (approximately ZAR 9.3 million). ATI recommends that the proposed solutions remain within the $300,000-$500,000 range. Applicants are however encouraged to propose the budget that best fits their proposed projects.

Important Dates:

  • Question Submission Due Date: June 14, 2024 - Final (second round) Q&A responses are available here and responses to the first round of Q&A is here.

  • Bidders Conference: June 20, 2024 (3-4:30 pm SAST) - The bidders conference session recording is available here.

  • Site Visits: June 24, 25, & 26, 2024

  • Closing date for Applications: July 8, 2024

RFA updates: LMC4H RFA updates:

    • Under Program Description -> Objective 2 we have removed reference to 3 different solutions:

      • Deleting the sentence: “A minimum of three different solution models must be piloted.”

    • Under Application Components & Process -> Additional information updated on the langauge in the first bullet point to read:

      • Solutions are required to be proposed for all five clinics. It is preferred that different solution models be proposed across the five clinics.

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Status: Closed July 8, 2024. Evaluations ongoing.

26) USAID Southern Africa Regional Economic Growth - Market Systems Activity

This addendum offered $100,000 to $500,000 grants to private sector partners to co-invest in development activities that will significantly increase trade from Southern African countries to South Africa and trade between the United States and Southern Africa.

Please note: Given the overwhelming interest in this addendum, we no longer have funding available for agriculture portfolio. We will only be reviewing non-agriculture concepts

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Status: Closed on July 31, 2024. Under negotiations

27) USAID Zambia TradeBoost Grants Opportunity

This addendum offered $100,000 to $500,000 grants to small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), financial institutions (banks and non-banking institutions), investors, exporters/importers, as well as larger catalytic private sector partners. The objective of Trade Boost was to increase trade and investment that generates inclusive growth, particularly to women and youth, through climate-friendly approaches.

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Status: Closed July 31, 2024, Evaluations Ongoing.

27) USAID Kenya & East Africa - Imarisha Initiative Grants Opportunity

This RFA offered grants ranging from $50,000 to $200,000 to establish partnerships with private sector firms in agro-processing and textile sectors to increase exports, sales, employment, and/or investment and at the same time expand economic opportunities for women. The RFA closed on August 16, 2024

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28) USAID Support for the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP)

This RFA offered grants that will help to catalyze economic diversification and job creation in South Africa in support of the JETP commitment. The target was to support potential partners proposing creative, effective, and impactful innovations or approaches to addressing challenges that constrain investment in SMEs with a predominant focus on Mpumalanga.

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Status: Closed September 26, 2024. Evaluations ongoing.

29) USAID Liberia Climate Finance Activity

This RFA offered grants that support the development of a pipeline for conservation finance and climate finance projects. The Conservation and Climate Finance Co-Investment Facility will support financially and environmentally sustainable community forestry initiatives in Liberia. This Facility will provide technical support and financing to initiatives that align with these goals.

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Status: Closed October 30, 2024. Evaluations ongoing.

30) USAID West Africa Grants Opportunity for Private Sector

This RFA sought to engage private-sector partners, including buyers, aggregators, processors, manufacturers, and investors to co-invest in innovative activities that significantly increase two-way trade between the United States and West Africa, as well as intra-regional trade among West African economies. The application should promote replicability in sectors that will support economic growth and empowerments including agriculture and agribusiness, healthcare, nutrition, textile and apparel sectors, among others." The intervention aimed at expanding access to private equity, venture capital funds, impact investing, and other non-bank financing for businesses including Agri-SMEs in West Africa.

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Status: Closed October 31, 2024. Evaluations ongoing.

31) USAID Kenya & East Africa - Climate Finance for Biodiversity in East Africa Grants Opportunity

This Request For Application (RFA) offered grants ranging from $500,000 to $1,000,000 to establish partnerships with firms offering innovative regional private sector solutions to mobilize private finance for climate and nature based solutions that maximize both climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation benefits. The RFA closed on November 15, 2024.

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32) USAID Kenya & East Africa - Empowering Women to Adapt to Climate Change in Northern Kenya

This Request For Application (RFA) offered grants ranging from $400,000 to $750,000 to establish partnerships with private sector firms offering initiatives that empower women and youth in northern Kenya to improve their resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change by creating/expanding income generating opportunities. The RFA closed on November 15, 2024.

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33) USAID Kenya & East Africa - Reducing Plastic Pollution and Creating Economic Opportunities for Women in East Africa

This Request For Application (RFA) offered grants ranging from $500,000 to $1,000,000 to establish partnerships with firms offering innovative regional private sector solutions to reduce plastic pollution, advance the circular economy, and create economic opportunities and better conditions for women in the plastic value chain in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan). The RFA closed on November 22, 2024.

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34) USAID Kenya & East Africa - East Africa Recoverable Grants Opportunity

This Request For Application (RFA) offered performance-based recoverable grants ranging between US$250,000 - US$1,000,000 to establish partnerships with firms and/or investors for meeting the development objectives in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi). The RFA closed on November 25, 2024.

Learn More Responses to the questions asked under this funding opportunity are available here. Information session presentation slides are available here.

Food Resilience Annual Program Statement

1) USAID Regional Food Safety - Aflatoxins Mitigation APS Addendum

This addendum offered a matching component valued at $250,000 to organizations and was closed on January 16th, 2023. The addendum invited concepts covering enterprise-driven solutions that will enhance the region’s food safety and trade by mitigating the effects of aflatoxins in maize, nuts and dairy value chains.

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Status: Awarded

2) Tanzania Edible Oil and Fertilizer Opportunity

This addendum offered $250,000 to $3,500,000 to financial institutions, investors, businesses, business service organizations, industry/sector organizations, trade or other private sector associations that are domiciled in East Africa whose concepts seek to mobilize enterprise-driven solutions to enhance food security and resilience in Tanzania by increasing production, utilization, trade, and investment in fertilizers and edible oils. Learn more.

Status: Awarded.

3) Mauritania Milk and Animal Feed value chain opportunity

This RFA offered $100,000 to $500,000 to private sector initiatives that provide inclusive and sustainable investment opportunities to address the urgent food security and nutrition needs of Mauritania. The main objective of this intervention is to contribute to the sustainable development of commercial milk and animal feed value chains to fulfill the local demand for safe, nutritious food. Learn more. Apprendre encore plus

Status: Closed on August 11th, 2023.

4) Feed value chain Facilitating a Secured Onlending Facility For Agribusinesses In Cereal and Legume Value Chains in Burkina Faso

This RFA offered $250,000 up-to a maximum grant not exceeding $1 million to a financial intuition and/or private sector players, (e.g., microfinance institution (MFI), agro-dealer, or an agribusiness.) to offer cereal and legume value chain stakeholders (farmers, traders, and processors), access to working capital and trade finance. This includes stakeholders who trade in cereals and legumes. As a result, these value chain stakeholders will have access to supplementary capital and can increase the supply of food to markets around the country. Learn more. Apprendre encore plus

Status: Closed on August 11th, 2023.

5) USAID MALI Innovative Market-led Approaches to Scale Up & Accelerate Last Mile Fertilizer Distribution

The Food Security and Resilience intervention envisioned an innovative market-based approach that accelerates local (Malian) production capacity of blended and other fertilizers, increases Malian agro-industries' access to capital, strengthens fertilizer transport and distribution systems and practices oriented towards local distribution, and promotes behavior change among local smallholder farmers to increase the use of fertilizers. USAID Mali, through USAID's Africa Trade and Investment Activity (ATI), will provide performance-based grants ranging from $ 500,000 to a maximum of $1.7 million.

Status: Closed on February 9th, 2024.

6) Food Resilience Annual Program Statement (APS)

In support of Prosper Africa, USAID is leveraging private-sector partnerships to increase food exports with and within Africa, which is urgently needed amidst the global food security crisis, made worse by Putin’s war in Ukraine. The Call for Africa Food Security & Resilience Partnerships grant opportunity offered partners the chance to work with USAID to rapidly address food insecurity and food systems resilience challenges on the African continent. Was open to offer grants of $500,000 - $5 million to scale access to inputs, technologies, and food that directly respond to this crisis.

Status: Closed on September 30th, 2023.

5) USAID DRC Reinforcing Resilient Markets Grants Opportunity

The This Request For Application (RFA) sought to provide performance-based grants ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 to leverage existing investments and relationships with the private sector and producer organizations that will intensify nutrition-focused agricultural interventions and agricultural market facilitation focused- programming.

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Status: Closed on March 31st, 2024.

6) USAID Mauritania Supporting The Milk Market System Development RFA

The This Request For Application (RFA) offered grants between $100,000 to $500,000 to private sector initiatives to provide inclusive and sustainable investment opportunities to address the urgent food security and nutrition needs of Mauritania. The main objective of this intervention was to contribute to the sustainable development of commercial milk value chains to fulfill the local demand for safe, nutritious food.

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Status: Closed on May 15th, 2024.

7) USAID Kenya Innovative Market-led Approaches to Accelerate and Scale Last Mile Fertilizer Distribution

The Food Security and Resilience intervention envisioned an innovative market-based approach that accelerates local (Kenyan) production capacity of blended and other fertilizers, increases Kenyan agro-industries' access to capital, strengthens fertilizer transport and distribution systems and practices oriented towards local distribution, and promotes behavior change among local smallholder farmers to increase the use of fertilizers. USAID Kenya, through USAID's Africa Trade and Investment Activity (ATI), will provide performance-based grants ranging from $250,000 to a maximum of $1 million.

Status: Closed on June 24, 2024. Learn More

Status: Evaluations on-going

Past Grant Opportunities

The grant opportunities listed below includes all grant opportunities that have closed under the USAID Africa Trade and Investment activity.