To bolster climate investment in Southern Africa, USAID/Southern Africa (with support from the USAID Climate Finance for Development Accelerator, or CFDA) has launched the Southern Africa Sustainable Finance Activity (SASFA).

As part of SASFA, Chemonics International (CFDA’s implementing organization), has released a Notice of Future Funding Opportunity (NOFFO) ahead of the anticipated call for grant applications. CFDA anticipates requesting grant applications to support innovative and scalable models for investing in conservation, biodiversity, and sustainable landscapes through the Scalable Approaches for Investing in Nature Window. The Window will consider concepts that focus only on Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and/or South Africa. Concepts are expected to be at the individual or multi-country levels with preference for concepts working in landscapes under threat of biodiversity loss.

CFDA anticipates releasing a grant solicitation o/a October 22, 2024 with a deadline of o/a December 13, 2024. CFDA anticipates making selections o/a January 2025 and notifying apparently successful applicants by March 7, 2025.  

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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