Opportunity Information: Apply for RFI62518RISEIIWSR
The RISE II Water Security and Resilience Activity notice is not a grant competition or an application call. It is a USAID/Senegal Sahel Regional Office (SRO) Request for Information (RFI) meant to gather stakeholder feedback on a draft Program Description before USAID finalizes the activity design. In practical terms, USAID is asking organizations, experts, implementers, and other interested parties to review the draft concept and submit written comments that could help shape what the eventual activity will look like, what it will prioritize, and how it might be structured once it becomes a formal procurement or funding opportunity.
This opportunity sits in the natural resources sector and is branded under the RISE II umbrella, with an emphasis on water security and resilience in the Sahel context. While the notice does not provide an application pathway or a defined budget at this stage (the award ceiling is listed as 0, reflecting that it is only an RFI), it signals USAID's intent to develop a future activity that would likely support improved access to water, better management of water resources, and stronger community or system resilience to shocks such as drought, climate variability, and related stresses common in the region. The RFI is essentially part of USAID's market research and design validation process, used to test assumptions, surface risks, identify promising approaches, and refine results frameworks and implementation modalities before committing to a final solicitation.
USAID specifically requests that comments be submitted in a concise format of no more than four pages, sent by email to sahelregional@usaid.gov, with a firm deadline of July 16, 2018 by 1500 local Senegal time. Respondents may receive an automatic confirmation of receipt, but the key point is that USAID is collecting inputs, not evaluating proposals. The agency also highlights that it is particularly interested in feedback that responds to topics laid out in a provisional agenda (not included in the excerpt you provided), implying there are specific design questions USAID wants stakeholders to address, such as technical priorities, geographic focus, partnership models, sustainability, or monitoring and learning considerations.
To support engagement, USAID planned a pre-solicitation conference on July 9, 2018 at the U.S. Embassy in Dakar from 1230 to 1500 local time (GMT), with a webinar option for remote participation. This kind of session typically allows USAID to explain the draft concept, clarify what sort of input is most useful, and give stakeholders a chance to raise issues that should be considered before the design is locked in.
Several important procedural points are made to manage expectations and fairness. USAID states that responses may be used for planning purposes, but submitting comments does not provide any competitive advantage in any later procurement and does not create an organizational conflict of interest. USAID also reserves the right to modify the scope and scale of the planned activity after the pre-solicitation conference and stakeholder feedback, and it explicitly notes that the eventual procurement route could vary. Future funding could come through a competitively issued Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) or through a pre-competed mechanism such as a Leader with Associates (LWA) associate award. The notice lists that one award is expected, suggesting USAID may be considering a single implementing mechanism or prime awardee structure, though that could change as the design is refined.
In summary, this RFI is an early-stage design consultation for a USAID/Senegal SRO activity focused on water security and resilience under RISE II. It invites short, targeted stakeholder comments by mid-July 2018, offers a pre-solicitation conference and webinar to broaden participation, and clearly states that no applications are being accepted because this is not yet a funding competition. The core purpose is to strengthen the final activity design and inform USAID's eventual decision on what to procure, how to procure it, and what outcomes the future activity should deliver.Apply for RFI62518RISEIIWSR
- The Agency for International Development, Senegal USAID-Dakar in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "RISE II WATER SECURITY AND RESILIENCE ACTIVITY" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 27, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 16, 2018 Comments and responses should be provided no lather than 1500 (Local Senegal Time) on July 16 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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