MERCY CORPS
FEED THE FUTURE NIGERIA RURAL RESILIENCE ACTIVITY INNOVATION FUND
CALL FOR CONCEPT NOTE APPLICATIONS
Rural Resilience Activity is a Feed the Future Initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mercy Corps is the prime implementer and is in partnership with Save the Children International (SCI) and International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC). The goal of the Rural Resilience Activity is to facilitate and protect economic recovery and growth in vulnerable, conflict-affected areas and sustainably move people out of chronic vulnerability and poverty via expanded opportunities
RRA inviting institutions, agribusinesses, and social enterprises to express interest in implementing ideas that:
- Increase access to agricultural inputs, specifically post-harvest storage solutions
- Improved technologies including time-saving, productivity enhancing agricultural technologies and digital technologies such as fintec, precision farming, etc.
- Increased access to financing for large firms, smallholder farmers and MSMES
- Better agricultural and business management practices resulting in improved competitiveness, productivity, Income, gross margin and yields for smallholder farmers and MSMES.
- Expansion of market access for smallholder farmer commodities through improved services by offtakers, processors, and other institutional markets resulting in premium and high-value prices for smallholder farmers and MSMES
- Diversification of products and or marketing channels enabling increased access to information, advisory and extension services at the last mile, ultimately helping smallholder farmers and MSMEs to be more resilient to climate (e.g. droughts, heavy rains etc.), health (e.g. COVID-19, etc.) and other shocks and stresses
- Creation of new private sector, rural and urban employment and entrepreneurship opportunities
The opportunity to participate in this program is open to all eligible institutions and private sector businesses
Those interested to apply are requested to send an email to big-innovation fund@mercycorps.org or visit https://mcnigeria.com/rra-Innovation-fund/ for more information.
All Concept Note applications are due by 17 July 2020.
Interested companies are also invited to attend an optional online information session on July 6, 2020 at 10:00 am
During this meeting questions will be answered and the opportunity will be further described. To book a spot, please send an email to: nig-innovation-fund@mercycorps.org
