This may be of interest to some of you:
ANNOUNCEMENT:
USAID's Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation (in the bureau for
Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance) is please to announce the
release of a new solicitation ("Annual Program Statement for Technical
Leadership"). The APS solicits proposals for applied research directly related
to the practice of conflict management, conflict mitigation, conflict
prevention, and/or conflict-sensitive development/humanitarian assistance. The
Technical Leadership APS is intended to strengthen the engagement between
research organizations and USAID to facilitate greater alignment between
cutting-edge research on conflict and USAID's objectives for applying
development approaches in fragile and conflict-affected countries.
The full solicitation may be found online (at
www.grants.gov<http://www.grants.gov/>) here:
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=rSyQPp1dq44jGymj6vs1QNvZRHvp0lLL1h7tyNVGJ1ybhvFn9VqV!1869518295?oppId=141941&mode=VIEW
To facilitate engagement with new partners from the research community, a
bidders conference will be held at the National Press Building (7th Floor, 529
14th Street, NW, Washington, DC), on Friday, February 24, 2012, from 9:30 AM
-11:30 AM, to enable organizations that plan to submit Applications under this
APS to learn more about USAID and its programming requirements.
All queries about this solicitation should be directed to
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.
