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The United States Agency for International Development, also known as USAID, is an independent federal government agency that is mostly accountable for offering civilian foreign aid to numerous nations across the world.
The USAID operates towards the accomplishment of their mission which would be to "extend a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country."
In line with this particular mission, the USAID has developed the Early-Grade Reading Improvement Interventions Program wherein they seek to obtain interventions that could enhance the reading achievements in the early grades in Latin America and in the Caribbean region.
The overall goal of the program is to deal with the gaps that continue to halt the advancement of cost-effective and scalable approaches that will assist in enhancing the reading abilities of the students in the early primary grades.
The USAID office in Latin American and Caribbean(LAC) promises to achieve this end-goal by tapping into selected countries where they will implement several of the interventions that have been created by the applicants to help improve the reading outcomes of the target populations.
The applied interventions will then be assessed due to its cost-effectiveness, impact, and scalability as a way to extensively evaluate its full potential and optimal usability.
LAC is set to enter into several cooperative agreements with different applicants and will award funds that could range from $600,000 (for single country interventions) to $5,000,000 (for multi-country interventions).
Under this program, LAC has layed out the predicted outcomes of the implemented interventions, which include:
a) Significant and considerable improvements in the reading skills of children who were affected by the implementation of the interventions
b) Effective partnerships with separate, USAID-funded evaluation organizations that can ensure valid and reliable evaluation procedures
c) Progression of systematized and replicable models.
USAID will honor applications from local and US-based non-governmental organizations, public and private education institutions, partnerships, and consortia as long as they have a DUNS number and is registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR).
The funding agency has additionally stressed that is crucial that the applicant organization must demonstrate the ability to create a strong proposal that is vastly relevant to the objectives and goals of the program.
The United States Agency for International Development, the main agency that is funding the Early-Grade Reading Improvement Interventions Program, is mainly known for its efforts in providing humanitarian assistance to more than 100 countries all over the world.
Iola Bonggay is an editor of TopGovernmentGrants. She maintains Websites providing resources on grants for small business and artist grants.
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