Opportunity Information: Apply for 72066025RFI0001
USAID/Kinshasa, through the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE), is exploring a new regional initiative focused on the Congo Basin that would strengthen biodiversity conservation, improve forest management, and advance climate change mitigation. The concept is to complement and amplify CARPEs existing portfolio by bringing in additional technical expertise, fresh approaches, innovation, and resources so that the overall, combined impact of USAID and partner efforts to conserve biodiversity and protect forests is as large and durable as possible across the region.
This notice is not a standard grant solicitation but a Request for Information (RFI) issued to gather input from interested organizations and experts. USAID is specifically seeking industry comment on the attached RFI to help shape the design and potential future procurement or programming decisions. Responses can come from any interested party because eligibility is listed as unrestricted. USAID notes that information submitted through this RFI will be treated as confidential and will not be made public unless a respondent explicitly asks for disclosure, signaling that the agency is trying to encourage candid feedback, practical recommendations, and realistic assessments of what could work in the field.
The opportunity is framed around the difficult operating environment in the Congo Basin and the many interconnected pressures driving forest loss and biodiversity decline. USAID highlights a wide range of threats and underlying drivers, including armed conflict and insecurity, displacement of people, weak governance, poverty, artisanal and small-scale mining, transhumance and associated land pressures, unsustainable land use practices, shifting agriculture, charcoal production, and wildlife poaching and trafficking. These stressors are compounded by climate change impacts, which further accelerate ecosystem degradation and increase the urgency of protecting intact forests and key biodiversity areas. The intent of the contemplated initiative is to help CARPE and partners address these complex, overlapping challenges in ways that generate stronger conservation and climate outcomes at scale.
Key listing details indicate this is an environment-focused opportunity (CFDA 98.001) posted by USAID in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (USAID-Kinshasa). The funding opportunity number is 72066025RFI0001, the opportunity category and instrument type are both listed as "Other," and the original closing date for submitting RFI input is January 6, 2025. The notice also references an award ceiling of 1 and an expectation of 3 awards, though because this is an RFI, those figures should be read as preliminary planning signals rather than a final commitment to funding levels or award structure. Overall, the posting is best understood as an early market sounding exercise aimed at improving the eventual design of a regional Congo Basin activity that strengthens conservation, sustainable forest management, and climate mitigation results.Apply for 72066025RFI0001
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo USAID-Kinshasa in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Central Africa regional initiative to advance biodiversity, conservation, forest management and climate change mitigation objectives across the Congo Basin." 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 2024-12-06.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-01-06. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.
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