The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Mission in Ethiopia (USAID/Ethiopia) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Disaster Risk Management Professionalization and Youth Leadership (DRM-PYL) Activity.

The objective of the activity is to strengthen the staffing capabilities of the Government of Ethiopia (GoE)’s Disaster Risk Management (DRM) institutions by empowering young professionals and equipping them with the skills that they need to actively engage in disaster risk management and strengthen GoE’s institutional disaster risk management capacity.

Currently, the effectiveness of Ethiopia’s DRM institutions is limited by their human resource capacity. Therefore, USAID is seeking support in strengthening the country’s institutional risk management capacity to plan for, mitigate against, and respond to disasters, and therefore reduce the impact of multi-hazard shocks on people and communities.

Through this activity, USAID expects young professionals’ disaster risk management skills and analytical capacities will be improved, young professionals’ leadership opportunities will be improved, and the disaster risk management human resources capacity of Ethiopia's disaster risk management institutions will be strengthened.

Activity Results

• Activity Intermediate Outcome 1: Young professionals disaster risk management skills improved (i.e. professionalization of DRM)
• Activity Intermediate Outcome 2: Young professionals disaster risk management leadership opportunities improved
• Activity Intermediate Outcome 3: Disaster risk management human resources capacity strengthened

Funding Information

Estimated Total Program Funding:           

• Award Ceiling: $7,680,000
• Award Floor: $7,680,000

Target Beneficiaries

The DRM-PYL activity shall target recent graduates for entry-level positions that build disaster risk management capacity at regional, zonal and woreda levels. These will be graduates from universities with formal DRM curriculums, as well as graduates from other sectors that are relevant to DRM. In addition, this activity shall target staff in human resource departments in DRM institutions to build capacity at those institutions.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible Applicants: Eligibility for this NOFO is not restricted. However, USAID/Ethiopia is targeting new and underutilized partners in accordance with NPI.
• New Partnerships Initiative (NPI): USAID encourages Applicants to align with the principles of the New Partnerships Initiative (NPI). NPI will allow USAID to work with a more diverse range of partners, strengthen existing partner relationships, and provide more entry points for organizations to work with the Agency.
  • Direct awards to new and underutilized organizations that are local entities in the host country or countries for which the Applicant is applying.
  • Direct awards to new and underutilized organizations that are locally established partners, in the host country or countries for which the Applicant is applying.
  • Sub-awards to new or underutilized partners via prime awardees that serve in a limited mentorship role
  • Direct Awards to Partners to Leverage Private/Non-U.S. Government Funding.
• USAID will not accept applications from individuals.

For more information, visit USAID.