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December 2023 Newsletter

WORK WITH USAID

Welcoming the New M/OAA Director, Jami J. Rodgers
We are happy to announce that USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance (M/OAA) has a new Director, Jami J. Rodgers! Mr. Rodgers spent time at USAID in M/OAA from 2012-2018, previously, so we are happy to welcome him back to the Agency. Most recently, Mr. Rodgers was at NASA. We are excited to connect him to our implementing partners! You can learn more about him at this link.

FY 2024 First Quarter Business Forecast and Partner Update Webinar
The USAID Industry Liaison team hosted our FY 2024 First Quarter Business Forecast and Partner Update webinar on Thursday, December 7. We had more than 650 attendees and welcomed M/OAA's new Director, Jami Rodgers. 

Partners submitted more than 2,400 questions this quarter (the most we have ever received!). Our USAID staff have answered all of the questions, and you can find the answers to those questions, video transcript, slides, and webinar video posted on USAID's Business Forecast page. We have just updated the spreadsheet with additional answers, so, if the answer wasn't there previously, please check again. Keep checking USAID’s Business Forecast for updates on potential funding and partnership opportunities. You can subscribe to receive emails with updates from the Business Forecast here. Read more about why the Business Forecast is an indispensable tool for partners in this blog.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Work with USAID 101 
On January 17, 2024, join USAID’s Industry Liaison Team at 10:00 a.m. ET on Webex to learn about how to work with USAID. We will share tips and resources that will help your organization partner with the Agency -- such as how to find funding opportunities, requirements to be a USAID partner and more! We will also present a walkthrough of the WorkwithUSAID.gov website. Register for the event here.

USAID, Global Health, and PEPFAR
Join AidKonekt, in collaboration with USAID senior Global Health staff, on January 9, 2024, at 11:30 a.m. ET for a conversation about the Global Health team's important work, key priorities, and how best to support their mission. Panelists will also share information about the breadth of USAID’s Global Health activities and will reflect on USAID’s PEPFAR successes. Register for the event here.

USAID/India’s Local Partners Resource Days
USAID/India has planned in-person Local Partners Resource Days in New Delhi on January 9, Hyderabad on January 17, Ahmedabad on February 6, Chennai on February 13, and Lucknow on February 27 to highlight shared priorities and present USAID plans for current and/or future activities in various sectors in hopes of expanding local Indian partnerships. You can find these events on the WorkwithUSAID.gov Events page.

FROM THE BLOG: WHAT'S NEW?

Co-Creation: A Win-Win for Local Partners and USAID
Check out Work with USAID's blog for World AIDS Day. USAID's local partners are indispensable allies in the fight against HIV and AIDS around the world. Read more from Rebeca Frohmader from USAID's Mission in Guatemala on how they used co-creation to expand partnerships with local organizations addressing HIV/AIDS. Check out the Key Takeaways that partners and Missions can learn from.

Making Donor Funding More Accessible to Local Partners
Localization of development funding is possible! But it sometimes requires new and different approaches by donors. Read this new guest blog from World Vision’s Challenge Management Group for the All Children Reading Grand Challenge to discover how they increased partnerships with local organizations. To combat barriers that still prohibited local organizations from accessing funding opportunities, All Children Reading’s Challenge Management Group at World Vision worked to identify opportunities to better engage local organizations of persons with disabilities, strengthen their capacity, and elevate their technical expertise to drive a wider perception shift around the role of local organizations as key partners.

Introducing the Funding Feed: A One-Stop-Shop for USAID Funding Opportunities
Finding USAID funding just got easier! We recently launched a new funding feed on the Work with USAID website that compiles funding opportunities for both grants and contracts from Grants.gov and SAM.gov. You can search and filter your results based on location, due date, and more. From the 2023 Partner Experience Survey, we received 96 comments about how identifying funding opportunities is a barrier in the funding process for organizations and U.S. small businesses. The funding feed is an avenue to get USAID funding opportunities into partners’ hands in one click. 

RESOURCE OF THE MONTH

Find all USAID opportunities at your fingertips by accessing the funding feed on WorkwithUSAID.gov here.