Deadline: June 30, 2023
USADF Grant Proposals for 2024
USADF invites applications from registered African agricultural cooperatives, producer groups, processors, and enterprises for grant financing. Grants will support solutions that extend your organizations’ own capabilities to increase your revenues, create jobs, improve farmer incomes, and achieve sustainable market-based growth.
USADF is accepting applications in the following countries:
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Click your country (above) to access the full request for applications including eligible value chains.
Application instructions – USADF Grant Proposals for 2024
- Your submission must include the following information from your organization:
- financial statements for the last 2 years
- registration document
- completed grant application form, in English, or French
- Applications must be in the sectors identified above for each country.
- Applications can be no more than US $250,000.
- Submit all documents in one e-mail by June 30, 2023 to the e-mail address found in your country’s call for proposal
- Download a copy of the grant application form here:
English Application
French Application
The U.S. African Development Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency established by Congress in 1980 to invest directly in African grassroots enterprises and social entrepreneurs.
The U.S. African Development Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency established by Congress to invest directly in African grassroots enterprises and social entrepreneurs. USADF’s investments increase incomes, revenues, and jobs by promoting self-reliance and market-based solutions to poverty. USADF creates pathways to prosperity for marginalized populations and communities across Africa.
USADF does development differently by utilizing a community-led development approach and a pan-African network of local implementing partners to support African-designed and African-delivered solutions. USADF provides grant capital, capacity building assistance, and convening opportunities to develop, grow and scale African enterprises and entrepreneurs who improve lives and livelihoods.
USADF invests in Africans and their ideas and solutions to address some of Africa’s biggest challenges around food insecurity, insufficient energy access, and unemployment, particularly among women and youth.