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Every year NGOs, bilateral/multilateral donors, and host governments spend hundreds of million dollars through emergency and development programs to improve food and nutrition security outcomes among the most vulnerable communities.  That funding is often highly restricted and earmarked for important activities that ensure families don’t go to bed hungry; but this can leave field-level implementing partners with limited flexible resources to develop new field-level tools, arrange knowledge sharing events, strengthen internal knowledge management systems or conduct innovative research projects that were not in the original work plan. IDEAL aims to support food and nutrition security stakeholders by offering small grants (<$50,000; <$100,000 and <$250,000 awards) for practical projects and events that accelerate progress and help address field-level challenges.

Please join IDEAL as we introduce the Small Grants Program, types of awards, procedures to apply and explore the first RFA (targeted for release in early July). This webinar will provide participants with information about IDEAL’s content focus areas and samples of the types of activities that are eligible for funding under IDEAL’s SGP mechanism.  Farm Radio International will share their lessons learned from applying for a previous small grant, and the resulting resource that was developed and disseminated for the food and nutrition community.  Attendees will have a chance to ask questions about current and upcoming small grants RFAs. 

The Implementer-Led Design, Evidence, Analysis, and Learning (IDEAL) activity, funded by the USAID Office of Food for Peace (FFP), works to support the United States Government’s goal of improving food and nutrition security among the world’s most vulnerable households and communities. IDEAL consists of a consortium of four partner organizations (Save the Children, the Kaizen Company, Mercy Corps, and TANGO International).