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).
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
12) Southern Africa Export Partnerships Opportunity
This addendum offered $100,000 to $500,000 grants for organizations that can bolster Southern African exports.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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Status: Under negotiations
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
Status: Under negotiations
Food Resilience Annual Program Statement
1) USAID 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.
Status: Closed January 16th, 2023
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: Closed on July 31st, 2023.
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.
Status: Closed on March 31st, 2024.
Past Grant Opportunities
The grant opportunities listed below includes all grant opportunities that have closed under the USAID Trade and Investment activity.