Deadline- May 31, 2012
Pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (FAA), the United States Government (USG), as represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), is seeking applications to support or stimulate the activities described in Annual Program Statement (APS)APS-OFDA-FY-12-000008. The broad objectives of this APS are to: 1) Support the emergency nutrition needs of vulnerable populations through a rapid response framework capable of conducting nutrition assessments and surveys, and provide capacity to rapidly begin or expand existing community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programs to respond to emerging nutrition needs; 2)Support the enhancement of supplementary feeding systems to improve CMAM implementation and help prevent children with moderate acute malnutrition from becoming severely malnourished; 3)Increase the capacity of local partners and communities to respond effectively and efficiently to emergency nutrition needs of target populations and transition the management of new and ongoing CMAM programs under the award to government and/or local relief organizations; and 4) Provide nutrition response capacity CMAM programs in such a way as to build capacity of local health services and the Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector’s (DRMFSS) National Incident Management System) and not to undermine existing Ministry of Health CMAM activities.
ELIGIBILITY-
- All applicants must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database and must include the date of their CCR expiration.
- Qualified U.S. and non-U.S. private non-profit organizations may apply for OFDA funding under this APS. Foreign government-owned parastatal organizations from countries that are ineligible for assistance under the FAA or related appropriations acts are ineligible.
- Qualified U.S. and non-U.S. colleges and universities may apply for OFDA funding under this APS. USG and USAID regulations generally treat colleges and universities as NGOs, rather than governmental organizations; hence, both public and private colleges and universities are eligible.
For more information, visit grants.gov and search by funding opportunity number. APS-OFDA-FY-12-000008
