Local Partner Fund (LPF)

• Eligibility Criteria
  – For the Local Partner Fund, USAID/DRC welcomes submissions from local organisations who bring an understanding of the development challenges facing their communities, country, or regions and who demonstrate a way to determine local priorities in their approach;
  – Eligible applicants must be local entities in DRC;
  – Cannot have received more than $5 million in direct funding (as a prime awardee) from USAID in the previous five years;
  – Cannot be a U.S. based organisation. US based organisations are not eligible as prime awardees under this APS;
  – Submissions can include one or more entities as partners working together (teaming arrangements) to achieve a common goal in a consortium.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Congo DR
• Application Language: English

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is currently accepting applications for the Local Partner Fund (LPF).

Purpose

The USAID/DRC Local Partner Fund (LPF) will strive to ensure that, in all activities, local partner and/or local communities lead development and humanitarian efforts, including problem identification, priority setting, design, partnership formation, implementation, and measuring results as defined by the Agency locally-led program indicator. The LPF will make a significant contribution to the USAID direct funding to local organisations objectives while enhancing the application of best practices for locally led development.

Funding Information

• The total estimated program budget is up to $1 million annual funding per activity for each awardee. Budgets submitted should reflect the organisation’s absorptive capacity.
• The period of performance for each activity awarded under the LPF is three to five years that will depend on the starting date.

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