To strengethen evident-based humanitarian response

This $500,000 Project Grant was awarded on August 15, 2024 by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) federal grant program. The grant was awarded to Impact Initiatives, a Geneva-based non-profit organization, to strengthen evidence-based humanitarian response in Ethiopia.

The grant supports Impact Initiatives' work in providing humanitarian coordination, information management, and assessment services to support effective crisis response efforts. This includes conducting multi-sector needs assessments, market monitoring, data collection and analysis, and information management activities to inform humanitarian assistance programs in Ethiopia. Impact Initiatives has also sub-awarded $120,000 to the non-profit organization ACTED to provide operational and logistical support for the project's field implementation activities in the Afar, Oromia, Somali, and Tigray regions of Ethiopia.