Closed · 72062020RFA00005 · CFDA 98.001 · Discretionary

Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Engagement (SCALE)

Federal grant opportunity posted by Nigeria USAID-Abuja, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$30M-$33M
Award range
Closed
Status
May 22, 2020
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Engagement (SCALE) is a closed discretionary listing from Nigeria USAID-Abuja that offered $30,000,000 -- $33,000,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 42 other opportunities from Nigeria USAID-Abuja.

$30M-$33M
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
98.001
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Engagement is closed (last close May 22, 2020). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Nigeria USAID-Abuja still indexes 42 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed May 22, 2020

Posted Apr 2 Closes May 22

Est. Total Funding

$33,000,000

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The United States Agency for International Development’s Mission to Nigeria (USAID/Nigeria) intends to award a Cooperative Agreement to implement a “Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement” (“SCALE”) Activity to strengthen the financial, managerial, technical and advocacy capacity of local civil society organizations (CSOs) and business membership organizations (BMOs) in Nigeria. This activity will be carried out over a five-year period from the effective date of award.The objective of the SCALE Activity is to support CSOs and BMOs across all of USAID/Nigeria’s programmatic sectors with a basket of managerial, business strengthening, and advocacy capacity-building interventions aimed at advancing Nigerian CSO sustainability combined with targeted grants to advance mutually agreed upon priorities. The activity is designed to enhance local civil society organizations’ ability to be positive and responsible change agents in Nigeria. Applicants are encouraged to form partnerships or consortiums, including with non-traditional USAID partners to implement the proposed activity.The new civil society strengthening activity will build on the achievements of the Mission’s previous civil society activity entitled, “Strengthening Advocacy and Civic Engagement (SACE)” which ended on January 1, 2019.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · 72062020RFA00005

Grants.gov marks Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Engagement with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Unrestricted / see official listing). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Other (O). This eligibility-code string dominates the Nigeria USAID-Abuja book (16 peers, 37% of 43).

Code 99
Unrestricted / see official listing

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Agency Contact

Cheryl Hodge-Snead Agreement Officer

What to do next

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