USAID/BANGLADESH FEED THE FUTURE RICE AND DIVERSIFIED CROPS ACTIVITY


Request for Applications

Making Money with Nutrition

The USAID/Bangladesh Feed the Future (FtF) Rice and Diversified Crops (RDC) activity is designed to catalyze market system changes that promote a diversified farm management approach oriented to intensified rice production and higher-value, nutrient-rich crops to increase incomes and improve food security and nutrition in the Khulna, Barisal, and southern districts of Dhaka divisions of Bangladesh (FtF zone). RDC’s goal is to increase rural incomes by catalyzing a process that leads to competitive and inclusive rice based market systems. RDC aims to facilitate strategic, market system-strengthening interventions to improve rice intensification and diversification.

Bangladesh has seen improvements in GDP, as well as, nutrition indicators over the past several decades, yet the country still has one of the highest rates of undernutrition in the world, with poverty, lack of access to agricultural land, and poor eating habits, particularly in the FtF zone. Rice production has increased significantly, production and consumption of more nutritious foods such as vegetables, fruits, fish, eggs, dairy, and meat are very limited.

RDC is inviting companies to apply for funding to finance the testing innovative nutrition training for farmers, micronutrient fortified products, nutrition messaging for marketing products, empowering women or other ideas that will improve nutritional status of consumers.

Applicants will be asked to present a description of the:

  1. Products they intend testing and how they will test the efficacy of these products.
  2. The methods they will use to disseminate information about how farmers/consumers can use these products efficiently, timely and safely.
  3. The methods they will use to ensure consumers have access to the products shown to be effective in promoting improved nutrition status.

The applicants can find an application for funding form at the following web link: Click here.

Applicants must complete all sections of the request for funding application form and submit it to the following email address info@acdivocardc.org by October 10th, 2018

* Issuance of this request for concept papers in no way constitutes a commitment by RDC to execute any agreement or to pay any costs incurred by firms that respond to this request.