Request For Applications (RFA)

Feed the Future Rwanda Kungahara Wagura Amasoko

Overview of the Funding Opportunity

Feed the Future Rwanda Kungahara Wagura Amasoko (“Prosper as You Expand Markets”) is a five-year USAID project that boosts the potential of Rwanda’s high-value agricultural export sector to drive sales, create jobs, and increase incomes. Due to challenges caused by increased fuel costs and supply chain constraints that are making freight costs more expensive, this grant activity’s primary purpose is to cushion Rwandan exporters by protecting core export markets and inclusively expanding linkages with new buyers / markets. 

This RFA targets small enterprises that are consistently high performers. Grants will be awarded and implemented in accordance with USAID and US Government regulations and RTI grant management policies and procedures. Please see the RFA description of application requirements in Section II: Application Merit Review Criteria. Grant activities shall be implemented in Rwanda by organizations based in Rwanda only.

To ensure uniform understanding of the application form and address questions from interested applicants, Kungahara Wagura Amasoko will hold an information session on February 9^th ,2024. Interested applicant should send an e-mail indicating the name of company and name of participants to CGF-Grants@ftfkwa.org by January 26, 2024 

Complete applications Forms should be submitted to CGF-Grants@ftfkwa.org with RFA number KWA-RFA-2023-03 in the email subject line by February 19, 2024. Late applications will not be considered.

Issuance of this RFA does not constitute an award commitment on the part of Kungahara Wagura Amasoko or USAID, nor does it commit the activity to pay for costs incurred in the preparation and submission of an application. Further, the activity reserves the right to reject any or all applications received. Similarly, an invitation to clarify your application is not a commitment to fund that application, nor reimburse any costs incurred during the preparation.

Kungahara Wagura Amasoko staff will not ask for, and applicants are prohibited from offering, any money, fee, commission, credit, gift, gratuity, thing of value, or compensation to obtain or reward improper favorable treatment regarding this solicitation. Any improper request from a project employee should be reported to ethics@rti.org.

Sincerely,

Titianne Donde

Chief of Party, Feed the Future Rwanda Kungahara Wagura Amasoko