The USAID Business Growth Activity (USAID BGA) is pleased to announce funding is available through its Grants Program. This is an Annual Program Statement, outlining the USAID BGA funding priorities, its technical themes, and the procedures for submitting requests for funding application. Awards to successful applicants are subject to the availability of appropriated funds. Funding will expire by the mentioned date or upon award of funds, whichever is earlier. Please carefully follow all instructions below.

USAID BGA anticipates awarding multiple grants to fund successful applications submitted in response to the APS. The competitive process under this APS will be open for one year. USAID BGA reserves the right to close this competitive process sooner for programmatic or funding availability reasons.

The anticipated cumulative amount to be awarded to all grantees under this APS is USD 1.5 million. The number of awards and amount of available funding is subject to change, and USAID BGA reserves the right to (1) fully fund a grant; (2) partially fund a grant or (3) decline to award a grant at any stage of the APS process for programmatic, environmental, or compliance reasons.

All applications are to be submitted online through the Online Portal.

• Solicitation: BGA-APS-2023-01
• Issue date: March 08, 2023
• Questions deadline: Rolling
• Answers deadline: Rolling
• Offer submission deadline: March 07, 2024