Program Eligibility Criteria
under USAID’s FY2010 Annual Program Statement
“The purpose of this APS is to foster innovation and involvement of new actors in development solutions. It seeks to leverage market forces, new technologies, and new approaches to development. It seeks to encourage applicants to re-define the development challenge in terms of a wider range of actors and interests. To be considered for funding under this APS, proposed programs must meet the following requirements:
- Alliance proposals must have clearly-defined objectives that have been agreed to by all partners.
- Alliance proposals are expected to demonstrate significant new, non-public resources – whether money, ideas, technologies, experience or expertise – to address international development problems (see Leverage criteria).
- Alliances must operate in countries where USAID has field missions and must fit within the strategic objectives of these missions and/or the appropriate WOU. However, broad, multi-country alliances that are addressing priority development issues may operate in countries where USAID does not have a field mission.
- Alliance proposals must contribute to one or more of the USAID’s high priority sectoral and programmatic objectives.
- Alliance proposals must offer promise of significant development impact, as measured, for example, by the number of direct and indirect beneficiaries of the program, sustainability by the creation of activities able to continue after the end of project without USAID funding, and/or by the potential for replication or scaling-up over time.
- Alliance proposals must appear feasible from a technical, economic, financial, and social perspective.
It is expected that programs may last from 12 to 60 months. Priority will be given to proposals that can be launched rapidly. USAID will not provide funds under this APS for products and services that would be purchased through a contract.”
Leverage
“GDA alliances are expected to bring significant new, non-public resources – whether money, ideas, technologies, experience or expertise – to address international development problems. To qualify for USAID funding under this APS, an alliance must demonstrate that partners are able and willing to collectively contribute significant resources to the proposed program that are at least equal to the level of resources sought from USAID: A minimum 1:1 leveraging is a minimum condition for concept/proposal consideration. At least 25% of the leveraging should be in cash.
Alliances in which non-USAID resources leveraged have a more clearly defined cash component are generally more competitive. However, various types of in-kind contributions can play an important role in funding alliances. Examples of in-kind contributions that USAID seeks under alliances include:
- Commodities such as drugs, food stuffs or equipment
- Use of training or other purpose-specific facilities necessary to a program’s implementation
- Value of time donated by technical consultants necessary to a project
- Value of salaries for staff dedicated to a project
- Innovative technology, communications and capital assets.
Further, it must be shown that these resources, in combination with the support sought from USAID, will provide the alliance with a comparative advantage in meeting the goals and objectives of the proposed program in a sustainable fashion.
It is this expectation of significant leverage of non-public resources, in combination with joint planning and of sharing risks and benefits, that defines the public-private alliances under the GDA as distinct and different from those activities USAID has previously supported.”
Source:
United States Agency for International Development, Office of Development Partners
FY2010 Annual Program Statement
APS No. APS-OAA-10-000001
Public-Private Alliances
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