Closed · USDA-FAS-10960-0700-10-21-0006 · CFDA 10.960 · Discretionary
Research on School Meals Projects in Africa
Federal grant opportunity posted by Technical Agricultural Assistance 10.960, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $1-$700K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- January 15, 2021
- Close date
- 1
- Expected awards
The verdict
Research on School Meals Projects in Africa is a closed discretionary listing from Technical Agricultural Assistance 10.960 that offered $1 -- $700,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number.
- $1-$700K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 1
- expected award
- 10.960
- CFDA program
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement - Research on School Meals Projects in Africa - is cataloged under number USDA-FAS-10960-0700-10-21-0006 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 10.960, posted by Technical Agricultural Assistance 10.960. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on November 19, 2020 and last updated on December 16, 2020. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a other.
Award economics. The award range on file is $1 -- $700,000. The agency has projected $700,000 in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 1 award. If the agency funds the expected 1 award from the $700,000 estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $700,000. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on January 15, 2021. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully, federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed, it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities. Before acting on the deadline or award figures above, verify them directly on the official Grants.gov listing, amendments can change dates and amounts after this page was last refreshed.
Award Range
$1 -- $700,000
Close Date
January 15, 2021
January 15, 2021 at 11:59:59 PM EST Applications not received by this deadline will not be considered.
Posted
November 19, 2020
Est. Total Funding
$700,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Other
Description
BackgroundThe United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA/FAS) and the United States Agency for International Development Africa Bureau (USAID/AFR) have partnered to bring this opportunity to fruition. It is anticipated that the findings of this collaborative research activity will inform future design and implementation of USDA McGovern Dole and USAID/AFR agriculture, food security, agriculture, resilience, nutrition and education activities.The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition (McGovern-Dole) program was authorized in 2002 with current appropriations of approximately $200 million annually. The program is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service and is named in honor of Ambassador and former Senator George McGovern and former Senator Robert Dole for their tireless efforts to encourage a global commitment to school feeding and child nutrition.The McGovern–Dole program helps support education, child development, and food security for some of the world’s poorest children. It provides for donations of U.S. agricultural commodities, locally and or regionally procured agricultural commodities, as well as financial and technical assistance, for school feeding and maternal and child nutrition projects in low-income, food-deficit countries that are committed to universal education.The key objectives of the McGovern-Dole program are to reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education, especially for girls. By providing school meals, teacher training, and related support, McGovern-Dole projects help boost school enrollment and academic performance. At the same time, nutrition programs are offered for pregnant and lactating women, infants, and pre-school children to sustain and improve their health and learning capacity before they enter school.In the 2014 Farm Bill, USDA was authorized to implement a new program, the Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement (LRP) Program. The program was officially launched in 2016 awarding three programs that year and three more programs each subsequent year up to 2019. To date, USDA has funded 12 separate LRP programs in 12 countries with a total funding amount of $35 million. Each year the funding allocations increased for the LRP program and in 2018 the Farm Bill announced that USDA’s McGovern-Dole program would allow local and regional purchase under the McGovern-Dole program, no longer as a separate program anymore. This allowed for all projects that applied in FY2020 to have a local and regional component to the program to encourage local, regional and national ownership of school feeding, and build the capacity of small holder farmers using schools as a guaranteed market outlet. The research questions below are derived from the McGovern-Dole School Meals Learning Agenda. Developed in 2016, the Learning Agenda is intended to identify gaps in the knowledge base within the school meals literature that USDA believes should be addressed as a matter of priority.
Eligibility
Grants.gov lists this opportunity under eligibility category codes 06, 20. These codes correspond to applicant types (state/local government, tribal organization, nonprofit, educational institution, individual, small business, etc.) defined in Grants.gov's own eligibility reference. See the current Grants.gov eligibility categories or check the official listing below for this opportunity's exact eligibility statement.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agency Contact
Abiola Adeyemi Global Programs Team Leader Agricultural Economic Development Division USDA 1400 Independence Ave, SW, Washington, DC 20250-1031 abiola.adeyemi@usda.gov +1 202-260-8023 Hours: Hours: M-F 9am – 5pm EST Paul Alberghine Senior International Program Specialist McGovern-Dole Branch USDA 1400 Independence Ave, SW, Washington, DC 20250-1031 Paul.Alberghine@usda.gov T: +1 202-720-2235 Hours: M-F 9am – 5pm EST Koli Banik Senior Education Advisor Bureau for Africa USAID 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, RRB 4.6-46 Washington, DC 20523 kbanik@usaid.gov T: +1 202-712-0660 Hours: M-F 9am – 5pm EST
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