The Section III will be about the sustainable impact (300 words) and the budget explanation (200 words), and you should write no more than 500 words totally. It is highly recommended that you try harder to imagine about any possible longer lasting outcomes and impacts on the society while the project will be ongoing, and if there will be impacts even after the project ends, which will be strong supports to your proposal to be funded. This is very important because the USAID application guide has described about the sustain impacts many times throughout the whole guide, and also placed it into Section III as a specific question for the applicants to answer. It means that the USAID will select those proposals with lower-cost designs, higher efficiencies and longer lasting impacts. Here is one of the USAID descriptions with details:
- Enhance uptake, acceptability and provide for sustained use (potential for sustainability as defined as cost-recovery, sustained use, and sustainable impact even after the project ends);
As examples, any outcomes and impacts last longer than 6 months or one year, or even after the project ending, can be called sustain impact. And if the sustain impact is targeting those populations other than the target of the proposal, it will enhance the project’s funding opportunity. For example, when a project is targeting pregnant women and newborns, and the sustain impact can reach the family members and other unrelated populations, it will belong to sustain impact beyond the target of the project and it will add great points to the proposal. As an optional idea, the matching funding from the local government or community additionally to the USAID funding can help the impact to be sustained longer.
When taking the virtual project “A Network to Improve the Maternal Health in Delhi” as an example, the sustain outcomes and impacts could be “long term living habits changed with hygiene knowledge of the pregnant women and their families”, “infectious rates of the mothers and the newborns may decrease and last even after the project ends due to the educational impacts on the society”, and “the qualities and timeliness of delivery services could be improved due to the uses of the handsets and maintained by the local health services.”
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