Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA 623 17 000001
This notice is a public-information posting from USAID Kenya/East Africa about a newly developed five-year East Africa Regional Environment Strategy covering 2017 to 2021. Rather than a typical call for proposals, it is essentially an invitation for stakeholders to review and provide comments on the strategy's results framework. USAID welcomes feedback, but notes that it will not issue public responses to questions or comments submitted. The comment deadline listed is September 15, 2017, and the announcement emphasizes that it does not obligate USAID to make any award or reimburse any costs related to preparing feedback.
The strategy is built around an analysis that points to two major, interconnected threats to East Africa's natural capital. The first is the rapid degradation of habitats and the loss of wildlife migratory corridors driven by human activities such as converting land to agriculture, encroachment, infrastructure expansion, and unsustainable extraction of natural resources. The second is the growth of increasingly sophisticated illegal poaching and wildlife trafficking networks, which are fueled by global demand for African wildlife products. The framing makes clear that these pressures are not only a conservation issue; they also affect human well-being and the region's long-term economic development by undermining the ecosystems that support livelihoods, tourism, water resources, and climate resilience.
Programmatically, the Regional Environment Strategy is aligned with USAID's East Africa Regional Development Cooperation Strategy (RDCS) 2016 to 2021. The RDCS overarching goal is to enhance East Africa-led sustainable economic growth and resilience, and it is organized around three Development Objectives: (1) sustainable regional economic integration advanced, (2) improved management of risks that transcend borders, and (3) strengthened leadership and learning among East African institutions. The environment strategy is designed to contribute to all three objectives, but it is positioned as primarily supporting Development Objective 1, specifically Intermediate Result 1.1: "Conservation and Management of Natural Capital Improved." In other words, the environment work is being treated as a foundational input to regional economic integration and growth, not as a standalone conservation effort.
The strategy is guided by a clear theory of change focused on transboundary landscapes and species. It argues that if collaborative management and conservation of transboundary natural resources is strengthened, if the perceived value of keeping wildlife alive increases (for example through community and economic incentives), and if poaching and trafficking are reduced, then the populations of targeted species and the biophysical health of key transboundary landscapes will improve. Those ecological gains, in turn, are expected to translate into improved conservation and management of East Africa's natural capital overall. The results framework referenced in the notice is attached to the original posting and is the central document USAID is asking the public to review.
Administrative details in the source data reinforce that this is not a funded competition in the usual sense. The opportunity is labeled "Other" for both category and instrument type, the award ceiling is listed as zero, expected awards are not specified, eligibility is "unrestricted," and the activity category is "Environment" under CFDA 98.001. The funding opportunity number is RFA 623 17 000001, and the issuing office is USAID East Africa (USAID-Kenya). The core takeaway is that USAID is socializing and refining its 2017 to 2021 regional environmental results framework, with special emphasis on transboundary ecosystem management and countering wildlife crime as key levers for protecting natural capital and supporting broader regional development goals.Apply for RFA 623 17 000001
- The East Africa USAID-Kenya in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "USAID/KEA/ENV 1.1 Results Framework" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2017-08-29.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-09-15. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.
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