The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has issued a call for proposals for non-US NGOs for the “Education Governance Effectiveness (EdGE) Project in the Philippines. Under this call, USAID intends to enter into a cooperative agreement with selected organizations in the Philippines.
USAID anticipates the award of a cooperative agreement with an estimated amount no more than $7,800,000.00 over a five-year period.
This request for application (RFA) supports improving educational governance especially at the school and at the local government level in selected cities and municipalities nationwide, with the ultimate goal of improving learning outcomes, particularly reading in the early grades. This initiative will contribute to attaining the Mission’s goal of improving reading skills of at least one million children in the early grades, and will be coordinated with the Mission’s planned national reading project.
The deadline to apply is 13 August 2012. For more information, visit this link.