The USAID-funded Agriculture and Rural Empowerment (ARE) activity, implemented by Chemonics International, is seeking grant applications for implementation of the 12-month “Increasing MSME Productivity by Co-investing in Lebanese Light Manufacturing and Services Sectors” designed to bolster MSME’s ability to invest in improving their business margins that have a clear reduction in operational costs or improvements in sales. ARE MSME support program focuses on non-agricultural Lebanese businesses in urban and peri-urban areas outside of Beirut and provide in-kind support for the upgrade of productive assets and/or implementation of new systems or processes. ARE’s support includes but is not limited to: light manufacturing and assembly facilities, equipment and customer service centers, restaurants and commercial kitchens. The grants will be awarded and implemented in accordance with USAID and US Government regulations governing grants under contracts and ARE’s internal grant management policies.
Call Type
Call for Trainings
Organisation
Intervention Sectors
Agriculture
How to Apply
Applications are due not later than 05:00 pm Beirut time on March 22 , 2022. Only electronic submissions to grants@lebanonare.org will be accepted. No hard copy applications will be accepted
ARE activity will hold a pre-application workshop on February 24th , 2022 on MS Team from 2 PM till 4 PM. This workshop will allow eligible and interested applicants the chance to ask questions about the RFA and receive guidance on how to complete the application form. Interested applicants that meet the eligibility requirements defined in Section III below and would like to attend this workshop must confirm their attendance by sending the participant’s name and the organization’s name to grants@lebanonare.org. Up to two persons may attend from each organization. No reimbursement for costs of attendance will be met. Applicants may also submit questions to grants@lebanonare.org prior to the virtual workshop. The deadline for confirming attendance of the pre-application workshop is February 22nd, 2022 and the deadline for submission of clarification questions is March 1st, 2022 at 5PM.
Deadline
Countries
Lebanon