Partnerships with MCC Program

The purpose of Amendment 0020 is to close Partnership Opportunity Statement #14 (Tanzania Trade Facilitation Partnership) in accordance with the President's Executive Order titled "Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid." See related documents for more information. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Closed

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia - Closed

13. Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership - Closed

14. Tanzania Trade Facilitation Partnership - Due Date: Closed

15. Urbanization and Growth Constraints Partnership - Due Date: February 19, 2025 at 12:00pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment No. 0019 to APS NOFO No. 95332419N0001 is to: (1) issue MCC's responses to the questions received from interested parties regarding Partnership Opportunity Statement #14: Tanzania Trade Facilitation Project; and (2) provide additional resources. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Closed

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia - Closed

13. Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership - Closed

14. Tanzania Trade Facilitation Partnership - Due Date: February 3, 2025 at 12:00pm ET

15. Urbanization and Growth Constraints Partnership - Due Date: February 19, 2025 at 12:00pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment 0018 is to change the date and time of the Pre-application conference call from January 8, 2025 at 2pm-3:30pm ET, to January 9, 2025 at 9:00am-10:30am ET; for Partnership Opportunity Statement No. 14: Tanzania Trade Facilitation Project. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Closed

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia - Closed

13. Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership - Closed

14. Tanzania Trade Facilitation Partnership - Due Date: February 3, 2025 at 12:00pm ET

15. Urbanization and Growth Constraints Partnership - Due Date: February 19, 2025 at 12:00pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment 0017 is to: (1) Add Partnership Opportunity Statement #14 - Tanzania Trade Facilitation Project under sub-section A.6.14 with a concept paper due date of 02/03/2025 at 12pm ET; (2) Add Partnership Opportunity Statement #15 - Urbanization and Growth Constraints Project under sub-section A.6.15 with a concept paper due date of 02/19/2025 at 12pm ET; and (3) Revise various sections of the NOFO to update regulatory references, website links, procedural changes, and other details as applicable. See attached conformed copy of the NOFO (Amendment 0017/version 18). -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Closed

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia - Closed

13. Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership - Closed

14. Tanzania Trade Facilitation Partnership - Due Date: February 3, 2025 at 12:00pm ET

15. Urbanization and Growth Constraints Partnership - Due Date: February 19, 2025 at 12:00pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment 0016 is to extend the MCC Partnership Annual Program Statement (APS) for two more years. As a result, the closing date of APS is changed from 19 March 2019 - March 31, 2025, to 19 March 2019 - March 31, 2027. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Closed

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia - Due Date: Closed

13. Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership - closed.

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Closed

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia - Due Date: Closed

13. Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership - Due Date: March 22, 2024, at 12:00 pm EST

Questions and responses are attached in this Amendment 0014.

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

PRE-CONCEPT CONFERENCE For this Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership, MCC plans to host a virtual conference prior to the Phase I Concept Papers are due. This conference will occur on March 12, 2024 (Tuesday), 10:00 am to 12:00pm ET. All applicants are encouraged to attend. Interested applicants shall email Alicia Allen, Agreement Specialist (allenal@mcc.gov) and Terri Tutt Daniel, Agreement Officer, (tuttt@mcc.gov) by Monday March 11, 2024, 5:00pm ET with the following information: a. Entity name; b. Attendee(s) name(s) and title(s); c. Attendee(s) email address(es); and d. Any questions you would like MCC to address during the conference. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Closed

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia - Due Date: Closed

13. Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership - Due Date: March 22, 2024, at 12:00 pm EST

PRE-CONCEPT CONFERENCE

For this Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership, MCC plans to host a virtual conference prior to the Phase I Concept Papers are due. This conference will occur on March 12, 2024 (Tuesday), 10:00 am to 12:00pm ET. All applicants are encouraged to attend. Interested applicants shall email Alicia Allen, Agreement Specialist (allenal@mcc.gov) and Terri Tutt Daniel, Agreement Officer, (tuttt@mcc.gov) by Monday March 11, 2024, 5:00pm ET with the following information:

a. Entity name;

b. Attendee(s) name(s) and title(s);

c. Attendee(s) email address(es); and

d. Any questions you would like MCC to address during the conference.

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Closed

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia - Due Date: Closed

13. Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership - Due Date: March 22, 2024, at 12:00 pm EST

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Closed

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia - Due Date: Closed

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

Amendment 0011 to APS NOFO No. 95332419N0001 - The purpose of Amendment 0011 is to extend the concept paper due dates for the following Partnership Opportunity Statements and issue MCC's responses to the questions received from interested parties. Accordingly: a) The submission deadline for Partnership Opportunity Statement #11 - Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling is extended from April 18, 2022 to April 25, 2022 at 5:00pm ET; b) The submission deadline for Partnership Opportunity Statement #12 - Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia is extended from April 25, 2022 to May 2, 2022 at 5:00pm ET; and c) MCC's responses to the questions that were received from interested parties regarding Partnership Opportunity Statements #11 and 12 are provided on pp. 2-4 of the amendment summary. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Due Date: April 25, 2022, 5:00 pm ET

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia - Due Date: May 2, 2022, 5:00 pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment 0010 is to: (1) Add Partnership Opportunity Statement #12 - Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia under sub-section A.6.12; and (2) Correct the header title for D.4.2 paragraph 4. Subrecipient Information and Letters of Intent (if applicable) to D.4.2 paragraph 4. Subrecipient Information and Letters of Commitment (if applicable). -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Due Date: April 18, 2022, 5:00 pm ET

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia -- Due Date: April 25, 2022, 5:00 pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment 0010 is to: (1) Add Partnership Opportunity Statement #12 - Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling under sub-section A.6.11; and (2) Correct the header title for D.4.2 paragraph 4. Subrecipient Information and Letters of Intent (if applicable) to D.4.2 paragraph 4. Subrecipient Information and Letters of Commitment (if applicable). -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Due Date: April 18, 2022, 5:00 pm ET

12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia -- Due Date: April 25, 2022, 5:00 pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment 0009 is to: (1) Close Partnership Opportunity Statements #8-10 (sub-sections A.6.8 through A.6.10); (2) Add Partnership Opportunity Statement #11 - Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling under sub-section A.6.11; (3) Move the narratives of closed Partnership Opportunity Statements #8-10 to Section H.5. Closed Partnership Opportunity Statements (not currently open for applications) of the NOFO document. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Closed

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Closed

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Closed

11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling - Due Date: April 18, 2022, 5:00 pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Due Date: May 21, 2021, 5:00pm ET

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment 0008 is to extend the concept paper submission due date for Partnership Opportunity Statement No. 8: Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands from Friday, May 7, 2021 to Friday, May 21, 2021 by revising the following sections of the APS NOFO No. 95332419N0001: (1) Cover Page; and (2) Section A.6.8 PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT No. 8: To extend the Concept Paper due date for this opportunity (pg. 12 of the NOFO Amendment 0008). This only extends the due date for Opportunity 8. The Concept Paper due date for Opportunities 9 and 10 remains unchanged as 7 May 2021, 5:00pm ET. All other terms or conditions of the MCC APS NOFO solicitation remain the same. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Modification 0007 is (1) to address several questions received for the current, three opportunities and (2) to clarify the availability of funding for Opportunity #8 Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands. This modification is accompanied by four attachments. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment 0006 is to revise the following sections of APS: 1. Cover Page: Extend the NOFO for a period of two years and revise the Closing Date to March 31, 2023. 2. Section A.6, Partnership Opportunity Statements: Incorporate three additional Opportunity Statements as the following: • Opportunity Statement #8: Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands • Opportunity Statement #9: Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure • Opportunity Statement #10: Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire 3. Section A.6, Partnership Opportunity Statements: Define the Cost Share or Matching requirements for each Partnership Opportunity Statement. 4. Section C.1, Eligible Applicants: Define eligibility criteria for public and government entities in current and former MCC partner countries. 5. Section C.2, Cost Share or Matching: Redefine the Cost Share or Matching requirement for consortia (teaming arrangements). 6. Section D.2, Application Submission Requirement: Replace Dun & Bradstreet-assigned DUNS with unique entity identifier (UEI). 7. Section D.5, Stage III - Business/Cost Application and Other Relevant Information: Define the option for MCC to request oral presentations of final technical applications in Stage III, prior to final negotiation and award. 8. Section E.2.1, Stage I - Concept Paper Merit Review Criteria: Explain that additional information regarding the Stage I Merit Review Criteria may be added to the individual Partnership Opportunity Statement. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed

2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed

3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed

4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed

5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa - Due Date: Closed

6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed

7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: Closed

8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

10. Women's Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Côte d'Ivoire - Due Date: May 07, 2021, 5:00pm ET

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment No. 0005 to APS NOFO No. 95332419N0001 is to: (1) Extend the concept paper due date for Partnership Opportunity Statement #7: Fiscal Analysis Partnership from May 10, 2020 to May 18, 2020; and (2) issue MCC's responses to the questions received from interested parties regarding Partnership Opportunity Statement 7. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research,knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding.Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed
2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed
3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed
4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed
5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa -Due Date:Closed
6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed
7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: May 18, 2020

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment No. 0004 to APS NOFO No. 95332419N0001 is to: (1) close Partnership Opportunity Statements #1-6; (2) add Partnership Opportunity Statement #7 - Fiscal Analysis Partnership; (3) revise Section A.6. Partnership Opportunity Statements to amend Subsections A.6.1. - A.6.6. Partnership Opportunity Statements #1-6; (4) add Subsection A.6.7. Partnership Opportunity Statement #7; (5) update the MCC POCs under Section G.2. MCC APS Points of Contact (POCs); (6) move the narratives of closed Partnership Opportunity Statements #1-6 to newly-created Section H.5. Closed Partnership Opportunity Statements (not currently open for applications); and (7) renumber current Section H.5. as Section H.6. List of Annual Program Statement Annexes. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research,knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding.Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: Closed
2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: Closed
3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: Closed
4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: Closed
5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa -Due Date:Closed
6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: Closed
7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership - Due Date: May 10, 2020

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of Amendment No. 0003 to APS NOFO No. 95332419N0001 is (1) to inform the possibility of teaming arrangement among the passed applicants under A.5.2. Stage II: Co-Creation; (2) to add subsection E.4 Additional Considerations for Award (Stages I and III); and (3) to remove DUNS preference for subrecipients under D.3.2. Stage I-Concept Paper Required Content and D.4.2. Stage III-Technical Application Required Submission Content; (4) clarify the cost share requirement under D.5.2. Stage II-Business/Cost Application Content; (5) to update the Grants.gov SF-424 Forms Page link under D.5.2. STAGE III - Business/Cost Application Content and H.2. Key Websites, applicable References, and Regulations; and (6) to update the MCC POCs under G.2. MCC APS Points of Contact (POCs). -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research,knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding.Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: May 15, 2019
2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: May 17, 2019
3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: May 15, 2019
4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: May 15, 2019
5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa -Due Date: May 15, 2019
6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: May 17, 2019

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

The purpose of amendment No. 0001 to APS NOFO No. 95332419N0001 is to extend the concept paper due dates for the following Partnership Opportunity Statements: a) 1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills from April 26, 2019 to May 15, 2019; and b) #2. Environmental Economics Partnership from May 3, 2019 to May 17, 2019 on the cover page and under Section A.6. PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY STATEMENTS of the APS NOFO No. 95332419N0001 document. *Note: Any amendments that change the terms of this NOFO or the associated Partnership Opportunity Statements will be highlighted in an updated copy of the NOFO as part of the amendment package in Grants.gov. It is MCC's intent to ensure that the latest amendment reflects the most current version of the NOFO, with all changes and updates captured in a single document. -

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research,knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding.Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills - Due Date: May 15, 2019
2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: May 17, 2019
3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: May 15, 2019
4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: May 15, 2019
5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa -Due Date: May 15, 2019
6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: May 17, 2019

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award

MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCC's current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research,knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding.Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCC's ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals.

Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCC's mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices.

MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities:

1. Empower African Women through Data Skill - Due Date:April 26, 2019
2. Environmental Economics Partnership - Due Date: May 3, 2019
3. Women's Entrepreneurship Partnerships - Due Date: May 15, 2019
4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa - Due Date: May 15, 2019
5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa -Due Date: May 15, 2019
6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership - Due Date: May 17, 2019

Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCC's partnering interests are met.

The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards:

Stage I: Concept

Stage II: Co-Creation

Stage III: Application

Stage IV: Award