The Inclusive Resilience in Somalia (IRiS) program funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) seeks to accelerate economic development for marginalized groups in the target areas of Somalia by increasing individual, household, business, and community, and system-wide resilience through rural and urban livelihood diversification and promoting inclusive economic market systems to combat real perceived grievances that contribute to violent extremism and conflict.  

The project will pursue two main objectives:                 

1)     Strengthen and diversity in rural and urban livelihoods for marginalized groups; and   

2)     Promote economic agency of marginalized groups.   

 Implemented by a consortium partners Mercy Corps (MC), Save the Children (SC), Somali Agriculture Technical Group (SATG), and Itad and led by DT Global, an international development contractor, IRiS is seeking applications from (a)Financial institutions, (b)Climate smart technology suppliers and (c) Commercial farmers/supermarkets  that are legally registered in Somalia for grant applications to support IRiS’s activity of Building resilience market system for urban based poor and marginalized populations to access climate adaptive technologies for agriculture initially in BenadirThe purpose of this NOFO is to solicit applications from financial institutions, climate smart agricultural technology suppliers, commercial farmers/ supermarkets to establish business models to finance climate adaptive agricultural technologies, including; greenhouse, drip irrigation, solar irrigation technologies, vertical vegetable production, and other technologies that enhance agricultural production and productivity in the face of changing climate throughout grower scheme, value chain financing or development of suitable financial products that promote the uptake of these technologies.

The grant(s) will be awarded and implemented in accordance with U.S. government regulations governing grants and the Project’s internal grant management policies.  The successful applicant(s) will be responsible for ensuring achievement of specified grant objectives, deliverables, and outputs/ results.

Please refer to Section 1 – Description of the Funding Opportunity for a complete statement of goals and expected results.

This NOFO consists of the following sections:

• Section 1 – Description of the Funding Opportunity

• Section 2 – Application Questions and pre-application conference

• Section 3 – Application Format and Submission Information

• Section 4 – Evaluation of Applications

• Section 5 – Award Information and Administration

• Section 6 – Annexes   

The applications must be received not later than May 16th , 2024, at 11:59 p.m. EAT. Applicants must submit applications electronically to the Grants Management Unit (GMU), via email at [email protected]. Late applications will not be considered.  Applicants must meet the requirements of eligibility for this NOFO, those who do not will be disqualified.

Application Questions and pre-application conference 

To be deemed complete, all applicants must submit all materials listed in the Applicant Checklist, found in Annex C of the NOFO. Materials should be submitted in one submission prior to the application deadline. 

IRiS will engage virtually in public discussions to answer questions from potential applicants and to provide an overview of the overall grant process from application to award. The virtual pre-conference is scheduled on May 2nd, 2024, from 9:00am-10.00a.m. EAT.

Therefore, if an applicant is interested in attending such a session, they should send their intention to participate and questions that they would like addressed in writing to: [email protected] not later than May 1st, 2024, 11:59 p.m. EAT.

The IRiS activity and DT Global reserve the right to not respond to or post questions that are duplicates of other questions or questions that are deemed not relevant.

If you are interested in applying, please download the application templates below.