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Amendment 0012 for the NOFO APS No: 95332418N0002

NOFO APS Name: “PARTNERSHIPS with MCC Program”

The purpose of Amendment 0012 is to:

1) Announce new technical area #9 “Women’s Economic Empowerment Partnerships”;

2) Announce new awards,

3) Announce the applicants that were not invited to participate in the co-creation and Phase II application,

4) Announce the applicants who submitted an application for Window 5, Technical Area #2 Urban

Growth Analysis and Urban Management, and

5) add new email submission address for all Phase I and Phase II submissions and questions.

I. NEW TECHNICAL AREA #9 Women’s Economic Empowerment Partnerships.

MCC is adding one new additional technical area: Technical area #9 Women’s Economic Empowerment

Partnerships. Technical area #9 is a one-time call before this NOFO will end in November, see explanation below), and the original NOFO has been amended throughout the document. Specifically the added changes are:

Cover Letter:

9. Technical area #9: Women’s Economic Empowerment Partnerships

Add Webex information for the teleconference for the technical area #9:

Pre-submission Phase I teleconference via Webex

September 10, 2018 2-3.30 pm

The link for the teleconference is:

https://mcc.webex.com/mcc/j.php?MTID=m54b241cf6d0359f93bc9b70df23a174a Password:

apsmeeting

Key Dates:

For the Technical area #9 Women’s Economic Empowerment Partnerships this is a one-time call opportunity before this NOFO will end in November 2018, and the Concept Papers for Phase I are due on September 27, 2018 at 2.00 pm EST.

SECTION A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Summary Women's economic empowerment leads to healthier economies, increased household incomes, and a more dynamic businesses environment. MCC’s Gender Policy, first adopted in 2006, confirms MCC’s https://mcc.webex.com/mcc/j.php?MTID=m54b241cf6d0359f93bc9b70df23a174a http://www.mcc.gov/resources/doc/gender-policy commitment women as fundamental to achieving MCC's mission to reduce poverty through economic growth

MCC seeks partners interested in working with us to identify the barriers to women’s economic empowerment and develop tools, models, and approaches, as well as coordinate investments to increase women’s economic empowerment to achieve our mission of poverty reduction through economic growth.

We believe that working in partnership to bring complementary resources, expertise, and ideas to MCC’s model of economic development will result in opportunities to boost the scale and impact of our programs. MCC is interested in partners who can bring evidence-based strategies, operational tools, and methodologies and work with MCC to apply or adapt them to the MCC model and context. For partners, this is an exciting opportunity to apply their approaches and ideas to address critical issues in MCC’s broad portfolio of countries.

MCC will prioritize partnerships to increase the impact of our programs on women’s economic empowerment in the following areas:

Women's Workforce Participation MCC’s programs are designed to generate private sector growth resulting in employment opportunities. Women's participation in the formal workforce is low in most MCC partner countries.

Therefore, we seek to identify and address the issues inhibiting women from joining the workforce or staying in jobs.

MCC is looking to partner with organizations, platforms, or networks to help us develop analytical frameworks and expertise in the areas of (1) boosting the employability and hiring of women; (2) bringing more women into “non-traditional” career fields such as in infrastructure-intensive sectors like construction, and in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) career fields;

(3) supporting career development of women through mentoring and other networks; and/or (4) improving labor market participation through policies and both public and private practices.

Productive Use of Energy

MCC has significant programming in the energy sector (https://www.mcc.gov/sectors/sector/energy).

Due to the ambitious nature of MCC infrastructure and reform programs, we have typically focused on core institutional and policy issues as well as building or rehabilitating key large-scale infrastructure for energy supply and distribution for households and businesses to have a reliable energy infrastructure. Even so, MCC understands that there may be other barriers to households and businesses connecting to the energy infrastructure and using that access productively.

MCC is seeking to partner with organizations active in micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise development, entrepreneurship, and/or access to finance to support MCC in assessing the barriers to businesses using energy productively and developing a framework and tools to consider cost-effective viable solutions and approaches to address those barriers and facilitate the productive use of energy.

Women’s Financial Inclusion New data, technologies, and market entrants in the women’s financial inclusion space present opportunities to improve MCC’s programs. Use of mobile money, access to lending and savings products, and an improved legal, regulatory and policy environment can be catalysts for women to start and grow their business; upgrade access to water, sanitation, electricity, and internet connectivity; or receive payments and social transfers.

MCC is seeking partners to collaborate with us on identifying where financial inclusion efforts represent a necessary complement to our programming and how we could incorporate related partnerships into program design.

MCC expects to work collaboratively and co-creatively with qualified applicants to co-design partnership activities that leverage the unique capabilities of each organization, and that achieve outcomes around aligned women’s economic empowerment goals. Applicants may address one or more of the themes cited above in their applications.

Applicants with accepted concept notes form Phase I will be invited to co-creation sessions in

Washington D.C. The target timeframe for these co-creation sessions is October, 2018. MCC will not pay for the costs associated with prospective partners participating in the co-creation sessions.

Additional Background on MCC

MCC aims to integrate the needs of women into activity design at every level of our work, from national policy and institutional reform to infrastructure development and behavior change activities. Per our country ownership model, our partner countries are responsible for the design and implementation of programs. MCC collaborates with our partner countries throughout the approximately two-year program development process, providing analytical frameworks, due diligence on project ideas and technical assistance and support on designing and implementing programs. More on approach to gender and social inclusion can be found here: https://www.mcc.gov/initiatives/initiative/gender MCC countries are selected by MCC’s Board of Directors, which examines performance on independent and transparent policy indicators. For a country to be selected as eligible for an MCC assistance program, it must demonstrate a commitment to just and democratic governance, investment in its people, and economic freedom as measured by different policy indicators.

MCC currently has programs in the following countries: Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, El Salvador, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo, Liberia, Malawi, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, Togo and

Zambia. MCC is currently working with the following countries to develop programs: the Gambia, Lesotho, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Tunisia. More information on program content and status can be found at https://www.mcc.gov/where-we-work.

ESTIMATED FUNDING AND NUMBER OF AWARDS

Technical area #9: Women’s Economic Empowerment Partnerships - $100,000 - $300,000.

Required cost share contributions – minimum 25%

MCC may choose to make no award, one award, or multiple awards for the technical area #9.

II. MCC made the following partnerships’ awards:

a. Technical area #3 - Agribusiness in Niger

Kuli Kuli, Inc., 600 Grand Ave, Suite 410B, Oakland, CA 94610 USA, Ms. Lisa Curtis, Founder & CEO, lisa@kulikulifoods.com

b. Technical area #6 - Data Collection and Analysis in Sri Lanka LIRNEasia, 12 Balcombe Place, Colombo 08, Sri Lanka, Mr. Sriganesh Lokanathan, Team Leader - Big

Data Research, sriganesh@lirneasia.net

III. Following is the list of applicants that applied to NOFO Phase I application but were not selected to continue to Phase II:

a. Technical Area #3 Agribusiness in Niger, Window 3:

Netafim Ltd, 10 HaShalom Road, 6789212 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Name: Mr. Frederic DOLLON, Agronomist for West Africa, Frederic.Dollon@Netafim.com https://www.mcc.gov/initiatives/initiative/gender https://www.mcc.gov/where-we-work mailto:lisa@kulikulifoods.com mailto:sriganesh@lirneasia.net mailto:Frederic.Dollon@Netafim.com

b. Technical Area #4 DCLI in Tanzania and Cote d’Ivoire, Window 4:

PsySiP: Psychology of Science in Policy

Washington, DC www.psysip.org

Dr. Pamela Flattau, flattau@psysip.org

IV. Applicants invited to participate in a Co-Creation Session and Phase II Complete Application include:

Technical Area #2 Urban Economic and Social Context Analysis

The Brookings Institution, Global Economy and Development Program, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20036, Ms. Molly Sugrue, Senior Development Officer, msugrue@brookings.edu

V. The following applicant submitted Concept Papers for Window 5, Technical Area #2 Urban Growth

Analysis and Urban Management:

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Urban Sustainability Laboratory

One Woodrow Wilson Plaza

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington DC, 20004

Ms. Alison Garland, Project Director, Allison.garland@wilsoncenter.org

VI. All applicants are required to use additional new email address for all APS’s correspondence, including the new applications submissions and all questions:

apspartnerships2018@mcc.gov

N/N Program Areas Agreement Officer Agreement Specialist

Department of Compact Operations (DCO)

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Partnerships Taylor Wolf, wolftj@mcc.gov

Nataliya Holl, hollna@mcc.gov, Britni Jones, jonesbm@mcc.gov

MCC is looking forward to receiving applications for Window 6. Concept Papers for all technical areas are due on November 08, 2018. Organizations are invited to submit Concept Papers for any of the Technical Areas featured in the APS.

Taylor Wolf

Agreement Officer

End of Amendment 0012 http://www.psysip.org/ mailto:flattau@psysip.org mailto:msugrue@brookings.edu mailto:Allison.garland@wilsoncenter.org mailto:apspartnerships2018@mcc.gov