CALL FOR GRANT PROPOSALS ANNUAL PROGRAM STATEMENT NO. APS-CIGF-2023-001
USAID Uthabiti Activity - Building Resilience through Market-Led Livelihoods Opportunities
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We are proud that our people are representative of the children we work with, and we thrive on our diversity. We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity. Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behavior towards children, both in their private and professional lives.
In Uganda, Save the Children implements development and emergency programmes in various thematic areas: Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Child Poverty, Education, and Health & Nutrition among others. We deliver programmes in the Northern, Western, Eastern and Central regions of Uganda, and advocate to ensure children's voices are heard.

Save the Children, in partnership with Swisscontact, Grameen Foundation, and the Response Innovation Lab (RIL), is implementing an initiative called Uthabiti. Uthabiti, meaning "resilience" in Swahili, is a three-year | humanitarian-development nexus activity funded by the United States Agency for International development's (USAID's) Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance. Uthabiti aims to build resilience through diversifying the livelihood opportunities available to young people and women from refugee and host communities in the Isingiro and Lamwo districts of Uganda. Uthabiti was launched in April 2022 and will run up to March 2025.

The Uthabiti Activity includes a provision for a Catalytic and Innovation Grant Facility (CIGF). The CIGF is Uthabiti's grant scheme that aims to test and or support innovative solutions and strategic investments for livelihoods diversification, access to critical services and assets, strengthening of capacities of key players in line with the overall strategic goal of Uthabiti. The facility will also serve as a resource for adaptive programming during Activity implementation. CIGF funds will be issued by Save the Children and managed in collaboration with Response Innovation Lab, Grameen Foundation and Swisscontact as consortium partners.

The grants will support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Financial Service Providers (FSPs), Refugee-Led Organizations and businesses, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and other eligible entities to operate within the Refugee and Host Communities of the Isingiro (Nakivale) and Lamwo (Palabek) districts of Uganda.
An Annual Program Statement (APS) with details of the solicitation and the relevant application documents can be found on http://bit.ly/Uthabiti- Grants. Potential applicants may also request for a copy of the APS by sending an email to uganda.uthabiticigf@savethechildren.org from October 31, 2023, until March 31, 2024, between 9:00 am to 4:00 pm only with email subject: "Request for APS-UTHABITI GRANTS".

Uthabiti activity will only accept electronic copies of the concept papers submitted to the grants email above [uganda.uthabiticiglR savethechildren.org] and should reference APS-CIGF-2023-001 in the subject line of the email. The activity will continue to receive and review concept papers in three rounds through March 31, 2024, or until funds are no longer available. Applications received after March 31, 2024, or unresponsive applications will not be considered.
Please submit all questions concerning this solicitation to the attention of Uthabiti, via email to uganda.uthabiticigf@savethechildren.org Responses to submitted questions will be posted to your respective emails and also updated on the APS by November 15, 2023 for first round applicants. Questions received after round one will be responded to as received. The Activity will organize pre-application workshops to allow eligible and interested applicants the chance to ask questions about the APS and receive guidance on how to complete the concept paper. Workshops will take place on November 7, 2023, in Lamwo (Palabek Settlement) and November 10, 2023, in Isingiro (Nakivale Settlement).

Disclaimer. Issuance of this APS and assistance with application development do not constitute an award or commitment on the part of the Uthabiti activity, nor does it commit the activity to pay for costs incurred in the preparation and submission of an application. Further, the activity reserves the right to accept or reject any or all applications received and reserves the right to ask further clarifications from the offerors. Applicants will be informed in writing of the decision made regarding their application.