STEWARD Strategic Activities Fund (SAF)

Post Date

September 7th 2011

Application Due Date

October 5th 2011

Funding Opportunity Number

2011-STEWARD-SAF

CFDA Number(s)

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Eligibility Categories

Other

Potential applicants, which are eligible to submit applications individually or in partnership with other institutions, are local or international organizations including universities, non-governmental organizations (both for-profit and non-profit), and other educational institutions. Local organizations must be registered in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, or Ivory Coast. In addition, international organizations must be legally registered under the laws of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, or Ivory Coast in order to hire local staff, manage a local office (if applicable), and implement activities on the ground.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $800000 - $2000000

Grant Description

The United States Government, as represented by a partnership between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) West Africa and the United States Forest Service, International Programs (USFS/IP), seeks to expand the regional Sustainable and Thriving Environments for West African Regional Development Phase III (STEWARD III) Program. STEWARD III is a forest conservation and sustainable livelihoods program focusing on transboundary priority zones in the Upper Guinean Forest ecosystem in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast. This Strategic Activities Fund (SAF) invites applications from local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community based organizations, public sector institutions, and businesses using innovative and integrated approaches promoting biodiversity conservation, adaptation to or mitigation of climate change, and sustainable livelihoods. Through this SAF, USFS/IP is seeking to provide funding for the expansion of these innovations so that they may be implemented in the STEWARD priority zones in West Africa.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Agriculture

• Office:

  Forest Service

• Agency Contact:

  Stephanie Otis
  Africa Program Specialist
  202-219-0877

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Point of Contact

• Agency Email Address:

  srotis@fs.fed.us