Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA FAS 10960 0700 10 20 0019
The Regional Food Safety Efforts in Africa grant opportunity is a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) initiative designed to strengthen food safety and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) systems in Africa in ways that support safer trade and smoother regional market integration. The program is framed around reinforcing a rules-based trading system by helping African Regional Economic Communities (RECs), starting with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), build stronger regional coordination and align SPS measures with science-based international standards. A central theme is reducing trade friction caused by non-tariff measures, especially inconsistent or weakly implemented SPS controls, which can block agricultural products from moving across borders even when tariffs are falling. By improving how SPS measures are designed and applied, the program aims to protect public health and animal and plant health while also lowering unnecessary compliance costs and preventing avoidable trade disruptions.
The opportunity is closely tied to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), particularly Annex 7 on SPS, which increases the urgency for countries and regional bodies to modernize and harmonize SPS approaches so that the benefits of the free trade area can be realized in practice. USDA/FAS is looking for partners to carry out practical capacity-building work at both regional and national levels, encouraging Member States to adopt and use international benchmarks and to converge around common approaches. Proposals are expected to show clear alignment with the World Trade Organization (WTO) SPS Agreement and the relevant international standard-setting bodies, including Codex Alimentarius (food safety), the OIE/WOAH (animal health), and the IPPC (plant health). The program also emphasizes that SPS modernization works best when linked to complementary efforts such as laboratory strengthening, better data collection and sharing platforms, and sustained high-level policy dialogue that builds political buy-in and investment.
The workplan described in the NOFO is organized into two phases. Phase One concentrates on West Africa, with ECOWAS as the entry point. A key activity is strengthening and refining the ECOWAS Network of Food Safety Actors, originally established in 2015, including support for ongoing coordination, annual meetings, and structured outreach that improves communication among Member States on emerging or persistent food safety issues. The NOFO also anticipates coordination with other regional mechanisms where relevant, such as the West Africa Pesticide Regional Committee, to ensure food safety discussions and decisions connect to related technical work on pesticide management and other SPS-adjacent topics. Phase One also includes a desk review and consultations with agribusiness to identify the main food safety barriers affecting regional trade and the most important private-sector capacity gaps; results are intended to be published in a report. Using input from ECOWAS, the Network, and the agribusiness findings, the program then calls for delivering technical support to Member States through workshops, virtual engagements, technical assistance, online tools, and other communication channels, potentially covering topics like risk-based food safety measures. Another core deliverable in this phase is the development of policy guidelines for food safety and animal and plant health measures, created in coordination with USDA and the regional network, to help countries meet AfCFTA Annex 7 SPS commitments more consistently.
Phase Two extends the impact beyond ECOWAS by taking lessons learned and best practices from integrated SPS system efforts (including experience from the Network of Food Safety Actors) and applying them to other African RECs based on their needs. The intention is to help additional regional blocs develop or strengthen their own SPS coordination structures, including regional networks, and to build the capacity required for AfCFTA implementation. In practical terms, this means the program is not only funding training or meetings, but also trying to establish durable regional architecture for SPS cooperation, improve consistency in how standards are interpreted and enforced, and support convergence toward internationally recognized, science-based approaches that make trade both safer and more predictable.
From the funding details provided, this is a discretionary USDA opportunity under CFDA 10.960 (Technical Agricultural Assistance). The award ceiling is $500,000, with an expectation of two awards. Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and other eligible entities as described in the full eligibility guidance. The opportunity was created June 2, 2020, with an original closing date of July 1, 2020. Overall, the grant is aimed at measurable regional SPS capacity gains, stronger coordination among food safety actors, clearer guidance for Member States implementing AfCFTA SPS obligations, and reduced SPS-related barriers that currently limit the growth of intra-African agricultural trade.Apply for USDA FAS 10960 0700 10 20 0019
- The Department of Agriculture, Technical Agricultural Assistance 10.960 in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Regional Food Safety Efforts in Africa" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.960.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 02, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 01, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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