The US African Development Foundation (USADF) is inviting applications from registered agricultural cooperatives, producer groups, processors, and enterprises in certain African countries for grant financing.
According to the foundation, these grants will be targeted to support projects which enhance the organization’s capabilities, increase revenues, create jobs, improve farmer incomes, and promote sustainable market-based growth.
USADF is offering this grant because of its commitment to supporting community-led strategies and partnering with local organizations in Africa for development. The foundation is accepting applications in Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Somalia, and South Sudan.
In a document seen by Nairametrics, successful applicants will be granted up to $250,000.
Eligibility criteria
- The organization/ cooperative must have a successful track record of working together for at least 2 years, with a minimum of 200 active members or suppliers, and demonstrate the ability to effectively utilize grant funds.
- The ownership and management must be in agreement on the problem to be addressed and commit to benefiting their community.
- The organization must have basic functional management and financial controls for at least 2 years to show accountability for the granted funds.
- Organizations must be 100% African-owned and led.
A successful proposal must:
- Clearly define a market opportunity to increase revenues and incomes
- Present a well-defined plan to achieve revenue and income growth within 2-4 years.
- Be able to make substantial cash or in-kind contributions to the project.
- Have a direct impact on hundreds of people and community members.
- Identify a sustainable growth path beyond the USADF grant period.
- Be open to innovative strategies, including new approaches and technologies, as well as complementary finance and information technology.
- Applications that support women-owned organizations and youth-focused projects will receive special consideration.
To make a successful application, here are some things to note:
- Submissions must include the organization’s financial statements for the last 2 years, registration documents, and a completed grant application form in either English or French.
- Applications must be relevant to the specified sectors in each country.
- Grant requests are not to exceed US $250,000.
- All required documents should be sent in one email to the provided email address mentioned in the country’s call for proposals by the specified deadline.
You can read more about the grant here and access the grant application form via this link.
No deadline is specified for the application.
The grant in Nigeria is only for Northern Co-operatives, not for the whole Nigeria. The USADF is marginalizing Southern Nigeria and following former President Buhari by marginalising the south. Too Bad.
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The deadline is set for the 31st July 2023.
We have an active cooperative society
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We at Agro Allied Commodities and Service Producers Nigeria Limited and our National Body the National Agro Allied Commodities Cooperatives of Nigeria are fully ready to register our cooperatives Nationwide to Access ND tap into the opportunity bequeathed to us as the leading and we’ll recognized data based Agricultural firm in Nigeria. Please note
I’m interested please bear with me to get this upper mean while a have many significant contribution towards my dream goals to achieve desirable things in sustainable Development in Agriculture.
We are very eager to fulfill this golden oppurtunity
I’m interested. None of such has been given to the southern People in Nigeria, so demanding for statement of account for previous agricultural Grants will be very difficult
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All time multipurpose Co operative is interested and are ready to assess the grant
It is our vision to develop communities through agriculture because this what people do bu we would wish to do it has a communities
Thanks for including Nigeria. However not including Southern Nigeria especially Southeast is not fair. The effect of poor management of Nigerian economy is felt in all parts of the country. It is my candid submission that USAID should immediately review this decision to include all parts of Nigeria.
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EBUGLO MULTIPURPOSE COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED I would like to be part of this moment so that I can be able to effect my community EZEAGU in enugu state through this agriculture Grant and empowerment to help my village I am interested.
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Yes interested through my Project to promote health condition and prevent communist from severe Hunger with sustainable development through out the season.
I have my project proposal on Barececa Ollereccea we harvested over 20 hecters last Two year we also make rural rural,rural urban smile through Horticultural farming of Vegetables under Federal college of Horticultural Landscape Technology Dadinkowa Gombe State Nigeria. Thanks with this Golden oppurtunity we can do more to make sustainable development under Ex provost Prof Fatima B J Sawa And And recent Provost of Federal college of Horticultural Landscape andtechnology Dr Mahmud Babawuro Mohd my great Supervisor Mal Sulaiman Abdulkadir Kano my Head of Department Dr Abubakar Wakili department of horticultural landscape technology Dadinkowa Gombe State.
I will be happy to mobilize and organize community to participate in the program to enable the poor in the community to fight poverty through their innovations and become self-reliant and economically empowered
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