USAID Youth Excel Program

USAID Youth Excel Program is sponsored by USAID. The USAID Youth Excel Program empowers young people to use data and learnings to improve their cross-sectoral positive youth development initiatives.

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gov Maintenance Calendar YouthPower 2: Youth Excel Addendum Agency for International Development Agency for International Development Document Type:Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number:7200AA20APS00008 Funding Opportunity Title:YouthPower 2: Youth Excel Addendum Opportunity Category:Other Opportunity Category Explanation:Addendum to the YouthPower 2: Annual Program Statement (APS) Funding Instrument Type:Cooperative Agreement Category of Funding Activity:Education Expected Number of Awards:1 Assistance Listings:98.

001 -- USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:No Last Updated Date:Apr 22, 2020 Original Closing Date for Applications:Apr 30, 2020 Current Closing Date for Applications:May 08, 2020 Estimated Total Program Funding:$ 30,000,000 Award Ceiling:$30,000,000 Eligible Applicants:Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" Additional Information on Eligibility: ## Additional Information Agency Name:Agency for International Development Description:As described in YouthPower 2 Annual Program Statement (YP2 APS), USAID has a long-standing history of prioritizing youth needs and investing in youth development through support to initiatives in multiple sectors, including, but not limited to, reproductive health and voluntary family planning, education, agriculture, environment, economic growth, and democracy, human rights and governance.

While USAID has demonstrated a commitment to better integrating youth voices into USAID programs and activities, there is still a need for increased effort to incorporate youth as valuable partners in development activities. Previous USAID youth programming has supported small scale youth-led learning and implementation grants in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that have provided on-the-ground insights into PYD programming.

However, the local youth-led and youth-serving organizations involved in the research had limited capacity, specifically, knowledge and skill gaps in how to conduct research, analyze data, and disseminate findings to feed them back into future programming demand investment in capacity development.

These nascent youth-led and youth-serving organizations need further support and capacity development in order to implement research grants effectively at scale and to engage with funders for future programming. Moreover, capacity building is time-consuming and requires mentoring and the need for significant management and technical guidance from other more seasoned implementing partners.

In response to this challenge, the Youth Excel Addendum seeks Concept Note(s) that support the overarching YP2 theory of change as stated in the YP2 APS, as well as the following theory of change: _IF youth-led and youth-serving partners have improved capacity to conduct quality youth-led implementation research, and IF those partners have improved capacity to direct and learn from a research agenda to improve programming, and IF findings from research are synthesized and disseminated well,THEN local youth-led and youth-serving partners will improve and sustain positive outcomes for local youth and advance the local, national, and global development agendas_ The Youth Excel Addendum is not a Request for Application (RFA) but rather a request for Concept Note(s) in response to this Addendum published under the YouthPower 2 Annual Program Statement (YP2 APS).

To be competitive, the Concept Note submission must be fully responsive to all directions under this Addendum and YP2 APS. Based on the submitted Concept Note, USAID’s E3 Bureau’s Office of Education (E3/ED) will determine whether to request a Full Application from an eligible organization. Link to Additional Information:[](https://www.

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