Opportunity Information: Apply for 72068524RFA00013
The USAID Sahel Regional Resilience Activity - Leader with Associates is a competitive USAID funding opportunity (NOFO No. 72068524RFA00013) managed through USAID-Dakar (Senegal) to support a regional development program focused on resilience in the Sahel. USAID is soliciting applications under a Leader with Associate Award (LWA) structure, which is designed to fund an initial "Leader" award and then allow USAID to add future "Associate" awards over time for related or expanded work. In practical terms, applicants are competing not only to implement the first phase, but also to become the single implementing partner positioned to receive additional funding later through associate awards, if and when USAID decides to issue them.
Eligibility for this opportunity is unrestricted, meaning any qualified entity can apply, subject to the requirements laid out in the full NOFO. USAID plans to make one single award to the applicant that best meets the objectives of the opportunity based on the merit review criteria in the NOFO, and this selection is also subject to a risk assessment. While the overall program ceiling across the entire LWA (including any future associate awards) is up to USD 200,000,000, the initial Leader award is expected to be much smaller, anticipated to not exceed USD 35,000,000. Any future associate awards, if issued, may not exceed USD 75,000,000 each. Importantly, there will be no associate award issued at the same time as the Leader award, and USAID explicitly notes there is no guarantee about whether any associate awards will be made at all, how many there might be, or what their total value would be.
The timeline provided in the notice is straightforward. The opportunity was issued on June 7, 2024. Questions were due by June 21, 2024, and USAID indicated that responses to questions submitted by that deadline would be shared with all prospective applicants via an amendment posted on Grants.gov. Applications are due on August 16, 2024, by 17:30 GMT (Dakar local time). The notice directs applicants to the points of contact listed in Section G of the attached NOFO for questions and emphasizes that applicants should read the NOFO carefully to understand the activity USAID is seeking, how to submit an application, and how USAID will evaluate and select an awardee.
The announcement also includes standard federal assistance disclaimers. Issuing the NOFO does not commit the U.S. Government to make an award, nor does it commit USAID to pay for any costs incurred by applicants in preparing or submitting an application. All proposal preparation and submission costs are the applicant's responsibility, and applications are submitted at the applicant's risk. USAID also reserves the right to cancel the process at any time without prior notice. Overall, this is a large, multi-stage resilience-focused regional development funding vehicle, with a single implementer selected up front and the possibility, but not the promise, of substantial follow-on funding through future associate awards.Apply for 72068524RFA00013
- The Senegal USAID-Dakar in the regional development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "USAID Sahel Regional Resilience Activity-Leader with Associates" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-06-07.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-08-16. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.
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