{"id":259230,"date":"2023-05-06T00:43:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T22:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/notice-of-funding-opportunity-women-in-agriculture-gain-economic-security-wages?lang=en"},"modified":"2023-05-06T00:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T22:43:39","slug":"notice-of-funding-opportunity-women-in-agriculture-gain-economic-security-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/notice-of-funding-opportunity-women-in-agriculture-gain-economic-security-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of Funding Opportunity: Women in Agriculture Gain Economic Security (WAGES)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c8e1372a80256f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c8e1372a80256f0\" alt=\"U.S. Embassy in Tunisia\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/c8e1372a80256f0\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=254018&amp;press_source=U.S. Embassy in Tunisia\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Office of Assistance Coordination and the United States Embassy in Tunisia announce a $1.5 million Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to address the vulnerability of Tunisia&rsquo;s agricultural sector to climate change, as well as increased food security threats, particularly for women&rsquo;s economic security and empowerment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The first objective of the NOFO is to enable women-led cooperatives to optimize their use of natural resources to mitigate the challenges caused by climate change. The second objective is to help women-led cooperatives to improve business acumen and increase revenue throughout the value chain of their products.<\/p>\n<p>Applications will be accepted only from organizations that have previously operated in the Middle East &amp; North Africa (MENA) region and can demonstrate the ability to work on&nbsp;similar projects with the relevant government and civil institutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The deadline to apply<\/strong>&nbsp;for this opportunity is&nbsp;<strong>June 15, 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement is available on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grants.gov\/web\/grants\/view-opportunity.html?oppId=347938\">Grants.gov<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mygrants.servicenowservices.com\/ilms\/\">SAMS Domestic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All questions must be submitted in writing to nea-grants@state.gov<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy in Tunisia.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Office of Assistance Coordination and the United States Embassy in Tunisia announce a $1.5 million Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to address the vulnerability of Tunisia&rsquo;s agricultural sector to climate change, as well as increased food security threats, particularly for women&rsquo;s economic security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-259230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/notice-of-funding-opportunity-women-in-agriculture-gain-economic-security-wages.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}