FY2025 McGovern-Dole International Food For Education and Child Nutrition Program
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- USDA-FAS-10608-0700-25
- Agency
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Foreign Agricultural Service
Department of Agriculture
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $29,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
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- 10.608 Food for Education
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Agriculture
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- Lindsay Carter ppded@usda.gov (202) 236-1095
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has announced a funding opportunity for the FY2025 McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. This program aims to improve food security, reduce hunger, and enhance literacy and primary education, particularly for girls, in developing countries through the procurement of agricultural commodities, financial and technical assistance, and maternal, infant, and child nutrition programs. Eligible applicants include Private Voluntary Organizations, Cooperatives, Intergovernmental Organizations, governments of developing countries, and other organizations. Projects must address two strategic objectives: improved literacy of school-aged children and increased use of health and nutrition practices. The application deadline is April 18, 2025, with a question submission deadline of April 11, 2025.
USDA/FAS expects to enter into multiple new cooperative agreements under McGovern-Dole, with awards totaling up to $240 million, subject to the availability of funding. Individual awards will range from $10-29 million for approximately 5-year projects starting October 1, 2025. Applicants must allocate approximately 10% of the total award for local and regional procurement of commodities and a minimum of 3% for monitoring and evaluation activities. The priority countries for this funding opportunity are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Honduras, Mozambique, Pakistan, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.
Synopsis
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), International Food Assistance Division, McGovern-Dole Branch announces this funding opportunity to support the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (McGovern-Dole) by issuing new awards. This funding opportunity is available to: Private Voluntary Organizations (see 7 CFR 1599.2) Cooperatives; Intergovernmental Organizations; Governments of developing countries and their agencies; and Other organizations. This funding opportunity is intended to improve food security, reduce the incidence of hunger, and improve literacy and primary education, particularly with respect to girls, through procurement of agricultural commodities, the provision of financial and technical assistance, and provision of maternal, infant, and child nutrition programs. All McGovern-Dole projects provide school feeding through a combination of U.S.-donated and locally and regionally procured commodities and address the two strategic program objectives 1) Improved Literacy of School-Aged Children, and 2) Increased Use of Health, Nutrition and Dietary Practices. McGovern-Dole projects also provide context-specific complementary activities that support these program objectives. USDA/FAS expects to enter into multiple new cooperative agreements under McGovern-Dole to make awards totaling no more than $240,000,000 subject to the availability of funding. These awards will be for approximately five-year projects.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| FY25 McGovern-Dole NOFO_Final.pdf | ||
| FY25 McGovern-Dole NOFO FINAL.pdf |
Posting history
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