Cooperative Agreement AID486LA1400001

This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $800,000.00 and provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the East Asia and Pacific Grants Program (CFDA 19.124), aims to strengthen the economic competitiveness of women entrepreneurs in Laos, ASEAN, and beyond. The project will focus on institutionalizing the protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCEs) and Traditional Knowledge (TK) through innovative intellectual property (IP) instruments....

This Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the East Asia and Pacific Grants Program (CFDA 19.124). The $600,000 award supports the "Empowering Youth for Sustainable Tourism Futures" project, which aims to empower 100 young leaders across five Mekong countries to lead innovative and community-based sustainable tourism initiatives and businesses. The project is being implemented by the Kenan Foundation Asia, a...

The International Development Finance Corporation awarded a $10 million Project Grant under the Foreign Investment Financing program (CFDA 70.002) to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees on September 27, 2022 for the 2X TA Pilot Program. The program will provide targeted gender-focused training and advisory services to promote gender equality among investees of the Development Finance Corporation through September 2030. The place of performance for services is Guatemala City, Guatemala. The Foreign...

This $3,500,000.00 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the East Asia and Pacific Grants Program (CFDA 19.124). The goal of this program is to support ASEAN SMEs to invest in developing products and services that contribute to achieving climate change goals in urban settings, with a focus on three outcome areas: knowledge, capacity building, and partnerships. The award has been terminated in alignment with an Executive...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement to the Wedu (Thailand) Foundation to implement the 2023 U.S.-ASEAN Women's Leadership Academy for YSEALI for Southeast Asian young leaders working on environmental issues. This award will support the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) objective of informing and influencing foreign publics and expanding relationships between people to advance U.S. foreign policy goals from October 1,...

This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $324,640.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the East Asia and Pacific Grants Program (CFDA 19.124). The award aims to advance economic connectivity, human resource development, and non-traditional security across the Mekong partner countries of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. However, the award is slated for termination as it does not align with the current administration's...

World Learning Inc. was awarded a $550,000 project grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs to support the IPACE RENEWAL program in Myanmar from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. Under this award, World Learning Inc. will implement public diplomacy programs in Myanmar aligned with the goals of the Department of State's Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA No. 19.040). Specifically, the organization will conduct activities to inform and influence foreign...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement to Cultural Vistas, Inc. to develop and implement a five-day Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative regional workshop in Malaysia. The workshop aims to foster the implementation of diversity and inclusion practices within ASEAN communities and organizations. The award was made under the agency's Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies Inc. (CSIS) received a $110,540 project grant award from the U.S. Agency for International Development Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID) under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (FAPO) federal grant program. The grant funded research and analysis on opportunities to strengthen development cooperation between the United States and Laos from September 2021 through March 2022. As part of the FAPO program's goal of...

This $2 million Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) under the International Labor Programs (CFDA 17.401) aims to empower persons with lived experience (PLE) of labor exploitation to actively collaborate with the government in addressing labor exploitation and improving labor conditions in the Philippines. The project focuses on organizing, training, and mobilizing PLE into networks to facilitate their meaningful...