Request For Applications (RFA)

Feed the Future Rwanda Kungahara Wagura Amasoko

Overview of the Funding Opportunity

Feed the Future Rwanda Kungahara Wagura Amasoko (KWA) “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 primary purpose is to cushion Rwandan exporters by co-invest in locally based refrigerated trucks that can move perishable cargo domestically, as well as on outgoing export and return import trips. 

This RFA targets medium and large enterprises that are consistently high performers. Grants will be awarded and implemented in accordance with USAID and US Government regulations and KWA 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 disclosure to all applicants, please send clarification questions by email to CGF-Grants@ftfkwa.org by September 9, 2024, at 5.00PM CAT. Answers to all questions will be provided via e-mail on September 11, 2024. KWA will not respond to telephone inquiries.

Applications to be submitted to CGF-Grants@ftfkwa.org with RFA number KWA-RFA-2024-005 in the email subject line by September 18, 2024, at 5.00PM CAT. Late applications will not be considered. Issuance of this RFA does not constitute an award commitment on the part of KWA 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.

KWA 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