Improving food security and resilience through agricultural disaster risk reduction programs in guatemala

Funding Opportunity Number: APS-OFDA-15-000005 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: AgricultureCFDA Number: 98.001Eligible Applicants Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"Agency Name: USAIDClosing Date: Oct 16, 2015Award Ceiling: $1,000,000Expected Number of Awards: 2Creation Date: Apr 17, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: Pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (FAA), the United States Government (USG), as represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) is seeking full applications to support or stimulate the activities described in this Annual Program Statement (APS). The broad goals of this APS are to: i. Build resilience at the household and community level to cyclical droughts (as well as to floods that sometimes follow droughts); ii. Reduce the likelihood of food insecurity at the household level during drought events; iii. Provide humanitarian assistance through mitigation programming which will be used as a foundation for long-term development; [PLEASE REFER TO THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR MORE DETAILS ON THIS APS REQUIREMENT.]
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Agriculture Source Type: funding