Announcements

The culture of food safety in Senegal leaped forward recently with the announcement of the winners of the youth competition on “Smart Food Safety.” The competition solicited innovation smart phone applications to assist small business owners to adopt safer food handling practices. “Samba the Fisherman from Soumbédioune” took first place at $10,000 and second and third-place winners claimed $5,000 and $3,000 respectively.

The Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships Activity (MSP) is pleased to invite for-profit businesses to apply for funding in Mozambique. MSP’s Mozambique Partnerships Facility offers businesses operating in the country the opportunity to co-invest with USAID to address the food crisis resulting from shortages of food, fuel, and fertilizer as a result of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Through the Partnership Facility, MSP seeks to channel business resources, expertise, technology, and influence to contribute to one or more of the following objectives:

This post is written by Ahmed Kablan, Ph.D., Senior Science Advisor, USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, and Mark Pigott, Engagement Manager, Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships Activity, led by DAI.

Vikāra Institute is excited to be adding some new positions to our global team. We are currently advertising for an International Program Manager and a Technical Specialist - Market Systems Development.  

The Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnership Activity is pleased to invite for-profit businesses in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Nepal, Philippines, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic to submit an application for co-investment through its Asia Care Economy (ACE) activity. 

Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge (WE4F), through its Southern and Central Africa Regional Innovation Hub (S/CA RIH), is proud to announce the launch of the second Southern and Central Africa Call for Innovations to foster innovation and enhance food security in the region. This call will support up to 30 organizations working on innovative technologies and business model solutions to provide more sustainable water or energy solutions for climate-resilient agriculture.

The Market Systems and Partnerships Activity (MSP) is looking for private sector

The USAID/BHA-funded Gender and Youth Activity (GAYA) Associate Award is launching a survey around knowledge, attitudes, and practices on gender and youth for Implementing partners (IPs). Unlike other surveys, upon completion of this survey, you will be linked to a real-time dashboard that provides insights into your organization's gender and youth gaps.

Do you have an incredible facilitator in your organization? If so, SCALE wants to hear about them! SCALE’s Facilitators of the Year Initiative is back for its third year. The Initiative recognizes and celebrates program staff who are facilitating agriculture, natural resource management (NRM), or alternative livelihoods-related activities around the world. Nominees must:

Are you ahead of the curve? Finding local solutions to global issues, driving change, challenging business-as-usual approaches, or more — tell us! The SCALE Award wants to highlight actions that are being taken by partner organizations at the local level. Has your or a partner's program made an innovation in how you work? Tell SCALE about your creative adaptation — let them help you spread the word!

Through this Request for Applications (RFA), the Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Cambodia Agricultural Investment Activity, managed by DAI on behalf of USAID/Cambodia, is offering opportunities for co-investment with private sector businesses in Cambodia in strengthening agricultural trade and investment.

 Through this Request for Applications (RFA), the Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Southern Africa Agricultural Trade & Investment Activity, managed by DAI on behalf of USAID/South Africa, is offering opportunities for co-investment with private sector businesses in southern Africa in strengthening agricultural trade and investment.

The Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity is launching a stocktaking of market systems development (MSD) tools to develop a curated, centralized, open-access web-based MSD tool repository. The tool library will be hosted, maintained, and kept up to date by the BEAM Exchange to ensure ongoing support and engagement of the MSD community.

This post was written by the ResilienceLinks.org team. Shocks and stressors including climate change, chronic poverty and disease outbreaks drive communities into crisis year after year. While shocks and stressors are inevitable, the lingering aftermath they often cause is not. Resilient individuals and communities are better able to achieve development goals, maintain development outcomes and thrive.

USAID’s Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity invites you to participate in a short and important

We need your vote! Check out the video entries for SCALE’s Green Creative Adaptation Award and help us pick the most creative program innovation or adaptation to address climate change in agriculture, natural resource management (NRM), and off- and non-farm livelihoods. Cast your vote by November 12 and let your voice be heard! CLICK HERE TO VIEW AND VOTE  

Calling all employees of development and humanitarian assistance organizations!.   USAID’s Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity invites you to participate in a short and important industry survey on the impacts of COVID-19 on development professionals and what employers can do about it.

Looking ahead to 2022, Marketlinks invites implementing partners in the market development and economic growth space to lead a theme month or share ideas for a webinar during the upcoming year.

Tell us about your best green adaptation!   Are you ahead of the curve? Creating green jobs, mobilizing climate finance or developing new partnerships, making adaptations more inclusive to protect communities and natural habitats—tell us! We want to highlight actions that are being taken now to adapt and protect against climate change. Has your program made an innovation in climate-resilient agriculture or green livelihoods that will have a positive impact on the environment? Tell SCALE about your creative adaptation—let us help you spread the word!

Image Registration is now open for USAID's new, self-paced 

The Climatelinks 2021 Photo Contest theme is Climate Change and People: The Challenges and Opportunities. We’re looking for submissions that capture the human dimension of climate change, in particular, social and economic responses to global change.

A new capital grant mechanism will allow the USAID CATALYZE Women’s Empowerment (WE) initiative, implemented by Palladium, to promote private sector investment to close the gender financing gap at scale in the near term. The grant mechanism is designed to influence the behavior of investors to invest in women-owned and women-led funds and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including first-time women fund managers and women investors.

USAID’s Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity is conducting a rapid industry survey to document and understand the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting workforce participation and career ambitions of current and aspiring senior leaders on market systems development programs.

Have you had a chance to look at USAID's new Economic Growth Policy? Please consider authoring a blog for publication on Marketlinks during the month of May!

Nigeria is presently confronted with a food security crisis that is deepened by COVID-19 global pandemic and its negative consequences on the food value chain in the country. The pandemic has severely affected an already weak agri-food system and value chain across the nation.