The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) representing the US Government (USG) in partnership with the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (EGAT) seeks applications for the Biodiversity Understanding in Infrastructure and Landscape Development (BUILD) program.
The program is aimed at maximizing the human and ecological outcomes by reducing the threat of infrastructure development to high-biodiversity ecosystems through effective policy, regulatory and planning approaches focused on engagement with government decision-makers, local stakeholders and civil society.
Subject to the availability of funds USAID seeks to competitively award one cooperative agreement under this RFA in the amount of $1.2 million over 3-years. A cost share minimum amount of 10% of the total cost of the cooperative agreement is required under this RFA.
With this RFA, USAID’s objective is to support the development and testing of innovative and catalytic approaches in the policy, regulatory and planning realm to reduce the threat of infrastructure development to high-biodiversity ecosystems. BUILD will capture and disseminate best practices in order to scale-up what works. This investment will further USAID efforts to support integrated approaches to development by focusing on the nexus of conservation and infrastructure sectors.
Target Geographies:
This investment will be working at the global level generating, capturing and disseminating best practice approaches and tools informed by key policy, planning and capacity-building activities in a limited number of high-priority landscape(s) and/or seascape(s).
Goal
The goal of BUILD is to improve policy, regulatory and planning approaches to avoid or reduce negative impacts of infrastructure development on bio-diverse ecosystems through innovation and learning. BUILD will focus on engagement with government decision-makers, local stakeholders and civil society.
Program objectives
Objective 1: Develop and test innovative policy, regulatory and planning approaches to reduce or avoid negative impacts on bio-diverse ecosystems of infrastructure development through collaboration with local government, civil society and local stakeholders.
Objective 2: Increase the capacity of decision makers and stakeholders to apply, institutionalize and perpetuate these effective approaches.
Objective 3: Generate, capture and disseminate best practices in order to understand and scale-up what works.
Deadline for submitting the application is June 23, 2011
For more details and information, please search by Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-OAA-11-000010 by going to the link.
