Amendment 0016 Cover Page Final.pdf

This is Amendment 0016 to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Annual Program Statement (APS) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) No. 95332419N0001 for Partnerships with MCC Program. The amendment, issued December 9, 2024, extends the closing date of the APS by two years, from March 31, 2025 to March 31, 2027, with all other terms and conditions remaining unchanged.

The original NOFO, issued March 26, 2019, falls under CFDA #85.002 (MCC Foreign Assistance for Overseas Programs) and seeks partnerships focused on poverty reduction through economic growth. The program includes multiple partnership opportunities such as Empower African Women through Data Skill, Environmental Economics Partnership, Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships, Collaborative for Data Science in Africa, Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa, and Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership. The funding instruments include both cooperative agreements and grants, utilizing a four-stage competitive application process: Concept, Co-Creation, Application, and Award.