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Funding Source: US Agency for International Development
Funding Type: Discretionary, Grants and Cooperative Agreements
Total Available: $5,000,000
Award Ceiling: $1,500,000
Deadline:  October 31, 2011
Eligibility: Unrestricted

Description:
USAID, through this Annual Program Statement (APS), is soliciting innovative ideas to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in the agriculture sector, and expand the knowledge base and evidence for greater gender integration in food security programing. There is a growing body of evidence showing the importance of gender integration for agricultural development (FAO 2011, World Bank 2009, IFPRI 2011). Women play multiple and distinct food-security roles throughout the sector — such as (but not limited to) sourcing inputs, production, marketing, processing, storing and consumption. Recognizing and enhancing these roles is critical for meeting the food needs of current and future populations, and ensuring that productivity increases are widely shared.

The goal of this APS is to pilot and collect evidence of impact from innovative and bold interventions that increase women’s leadership in the agriculture sector, improve women’s access to and utilization of technology to increase agricultural productivity, increase labor saving technologies, strengthen gender equality in land, credit and other policies, and enhance nutritional outcomes for women and children.