RFA (Request for Application): C303--Stimulate Support Establishment/Expansion of Commercial Forage Production and Marketing in RiPA Program Areas
RFA-C303
Background of the project
Resilience in Pastoralist Area-North (RiPA-North) is a five year USAID funded Feed the Future (FtF) program that aims to improve the resilience capacities of households, markets and governance institutions across 22 woredas in the Somali, Afar and Oromia regions. The program has four integrated components targeted across intervention geographic areas. These are:
- Improved Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Systems and Capacity.
- Diversified and Sustainable Economic Opportunities for People Transitioning out of Pastoralism (ToPs) particularly youth and women.
- Intensified and Sustained Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Production and Marketing
- Improved and Sustained Nutrition and Hygiene Practices
In addition gender and social cohesion are embedded in all the above four components of the program as a cross cutting intervention. RiPA is implementing the program following the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach to stimulate sustainable and systemic change at scale. This will involve multiple partnerships development with private sector and government actors. Intensified and Sustained Pastoral and Agro-pastoral production and marketing component of RiPA program is planned to facilitate intervention that stimulate commercial forage production and marketing business through co-investment with private sector actors.