Youth Empowerment and Skills Program (Tanzania)
Deadline: 18-Apr-22
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified Tanzanian entities to implement the “Youth Empowerment and Skills (YES)” program. Eligibility for this award is restricted to Tanzanian organizations that meet USAID’s definition of local entity.
Technical Areas of Interest
The three main objectives of the activity are to enable youth to:
Access resources and opportunities for basic educational, life, and entrepreneurial skills
Participate in activities that foster physical and mental well-being
Build or strengthen existing networks that support youth development and community engagement. The expected result of this activity is that youth will be more productive, engaged, and active members in their communities.
The following list reflects the illustrative areas of programming under the three objectives that applicants may consider; other innovative ideas would be highly encouraged.
Direct provision of basic educational, life, and entrepreneurial skills for youth aged 15-25. These skills include but are not limited to the following:
Expanding life skills, such as nutrition, childcare, home economics, resilience, etcProviding remedial literacy and numeracy skills.
Expanding workforce readiness skills, such as interviewing, application/resume writing, accessing labor market information, persistence in achieving goals, etc.
Identifying and accessing local youth-friendly government services and resources, such as health, nutrition, education, economic opportunities, etc.
Identifying and accessing local youth-friendly banking services and foundational entrepreneurial skills, including registration and compliance, marketing, business plan development, access to financial products, access to land for land-based economic opportunities, understanding supply chains, etc.
Enhancing digital literacy, helping to counter misinformation and leverage the benefits of social media.
Registration for national identification cards, birth certificates, and voter registration.
Activities that foster physical and mental well-being for youth aged 15-25. Some of the activities under this objective include:
Network referrals and direct counseling services on:
Nutrition: including nutrition care planning, appropriate means of nutrition interventions, e.g., nutrition requirements and feeding modalities, etc.
Gender-based violence (GBV): e.g., services that address prevention, protection, and responses to GBV.
Referral and bi-directional linkage services i.e., the connection facilitated to link service providers and youths for comprehensive health service provision.
Healthy development, including physical, mental, and social emotional learning.
Other useful health topics, e.g., HIV prevention, Malaria, Tuberculosis (TB), Sexual reproductive health education, Family Planning, etc.
Youth-friendly private sector and government labor market information, access to finance, and economic and job opportunities, etc.
Activities that focus on the holistic development of adolescents and young people, teamwork, self-efficacy, leadership, creative-thinking, conflict-resolution, and problem-solving.
Strengthen existing youth-led networks to support their youth development and community engagement activities. Network strengthening activities will include but not limited to the following:
Mentor, instruct, and coach network leaders and organizers, and strengthen network service provided.
Provide demand-driven support to strengthen existing platforms or local structures supporting youth development and engagement.
Enhancing collective youth civic and political participation.
Funding Information
USAID intends to award one cooperative agreement pursuant to this notice of funding opportunity. Subject to funding availability and at the discretion of the Agency, USAID intends to provide $10,630,000 in total USAID funding over a four-year period.
Award Ceiling: $10,660,000
Award Floor: $10,600,000
Geographical Areas of Interest
Under this RFA, USAID/Tanzania is looking to fund an organization that will work closely with theUSAID/Tanzania Mission and current implementing partners to create and support an array of sustainable human-centered design interventions, differentiated, and tailored to the specific needs of the targeted youth between the ages of 15 and 25. Interventions will be youth-owned, youth-led, and youth-managed. They will focus particularly on out-of-school youth who have had limited opportunities to engage in the formal education sector. Interventions will be implemented in the following regions:
Zanzibar, including Pemba
Dar es Salaam
and up to one or two additional regions from the following CDCS target areas:
Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania:
Iringa,
Morogoro,
Ngombe,
Mbeya;
Lake Western Zone:
Mwanza,
Shinyanga,
Mara
Kagera
Eligibility criteria
Only local organizations as defined below are eligible for award. USAID defines a “local entity” as an individual, a corporation, a nonprofit organization, or another body of persons that:
Is legally organized under the laws of
Has as its principal place of business or operations
Is majority owned by individuals who are citizens or lawful permanent residents
Is managed by a governing body the majority of who are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the country receiving assistance.
For purposes of this section, ‘majority owned’ and ‘managed by’ include, without limitation, beneficiary interests and the power, either directly or indirectly, whether exercised or exercisable, to control the election, appointment, or tenure of the organization’s managers or a majority of then organization’s governing body by any means.
These eligibility requirements apply to only the principal applicant.
Entities that meet the definition of “locally established partner” are not eligible to submit an application as the principal applicant.
USAID welcomes applications from organizations that have not previously received financial assistance from USAID.
Faith-based organizations are eligible to apply for federal financial assistance on the same basis as any other organization and are subject to the protections and requirements of Federal law.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338105