To bolster nature and conservation investment in Southern Africa, CFDA has partnered with USAID Southern Africa to launch the Southern Africa Scalable Approaches for Investing in Nature Window, an Addendum under CFDA’s General APS. The Window aims to support high-potential initiatives such as nature bonds, debt-for-nature swaps, results-based-finance, payment for ecosystem services, and other innovative nature-based solutions and financial mechanisms that can be launched, scaled, or replicated effectively – enhancing their impact on nature conservation and sustainability in the target countries.  Concepts should focus on one or more of the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and/or South Africa, and associated regional Transfrontier Conservation Areas. Concepts can be at the individual or multi-country levels with preference for concepts working in landscapes under threat of biodiversity loss.

Applications in response to this APS Addendum will be accepted through December 13, 2024 at 11:59pm EST. Questions regarding this announcement will be accepted through the Solicitation Question Submission Form through November 5, 2024 at 11:59pm EST. Interested and eligible applicants have the option of attending a Virtual Pre-Application Workshop (pre-registration required, see attachments) which will be offered on October 31, 2024 from 9:00-10:00am EDT.

Interested offerors are encouraged to join the Climate Finance Investment Network (CFIN). Managed by CFDA, the CFIN brings together climate finance stakeholders across a diverse set of sectors and emerging and frontier markets to partner with USAID. The objective of the network is to crowd in private sector climate financing through learning, partnership facilitation, and catalytic grants. CFDA will share all full and open solicitations, amendments, answers to questions, and other updates with contacts registered with the CFIN. There is no cost to join the CFIN and membership does not involve any commitment or obligation. 

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