Communities Leading Development (CLD)

Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-520-15-000009 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Community DevelopmentCFDA 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: USAID-GUAClosing Date: Nov 09, 2015Award Ceiling: $50,000,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Sep 11, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The project will empower citizens of the Guatemalan Western Highlands to identify and address their own development needs. Through a rigorous community-based development (CBD) approach, the project will strengthen the voices of underrepresented groups (including women, poor, indigenous, youth, and others) and actively engage community members as participants and leaders in the full cycle of design, management, and evaluation of development activities. The project will work to dismantle the social, cultural, and historical divides that have marginalized indigenous Mayans in the Western Highlands.
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Community Development Source Type: funding