The USAID SAREP Partnership Fund (SPF) supports market-based transformative solutions to enable the clean energy transition, particularly by engaging the private sector, local organizations, and new, underutilized partners. It also harnesses innovative business models, solutions, technologies, resources, experiences, and networks of relationships that exist across stakeholders. SPF will achieve this by catalyzing country and regional activities to complement the technical assistance provided by SAREP. SPF aims to expand and maximize the impact of USAID resources innovatively and sustainably through activities designed, owned, and implemented by grantees under the SAREP Program.
Call for applications under the SPF
SAREP is currently inviting the second call for applications by December 15, 2022. The latest round of Request for Applications (RFAs) under the USAID SAREP Partnership Fund (SPF) is now open. This is the second of the six rounds of RFAs planned during the five-year duration of the SAREP project.
The USAID SPF will support market-based transformative solutions to enable the clean energy transition in South Asia, particularly by engaging the private sector, local organizations, and new and underutilized partners. It will also harness innovative business models, solutions, technologies, resources, experiences, and networks of relationships that exist across stakeholders.
This RFA focuses on activities specific to all six SAREP countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Through this RFA, USAID SPF is inviting applications to fund qualified organizations for supporting activities and programs consistent with SAREP’s purpose of improving access to affordable, secure, reliable, and sustainable energy, and its four objectives.
The Request for Applications (RFA) (RFA-SAREP-FY23-001) can be found here.
To provide detailed information about the RFA, including eligibility, projects considered, process to apply, etc., USAID SAREP held an online information dissemination event on October 31, 2022, at 6:30PM IST.
More than 100 participants from 13 countries and over 90 organizations attended the live event. The video recording of the live YouTube streaming is available here.
You may also refer to the information dissemination presentation here.
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