New Alliance ICT Extension Challenge Fund Country Award in Mozambique

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The US Agency for International Development (USAID) with its partners is considering an award of a Cooperative Agreement to provide Information and Communications Technology (ICT) enabled services to contribute to the success of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Mozambique. This Award, referred to as the Mozambique Country Award from the New Alliance ICT Extension Challenge Fund, is funded by New Alliance partners, including USAID and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). These organizations serve on the Fund Coordination Committee. Four cooperative agreements have already been awarded from the New Alliance ICT Extension Challenge Fund for Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Senegal. The ICT Extension Challenge Fund seeks creative, integrated ICT-based approaches that can scale not pilot projects or proofs of concept. The Fund Grantees, including the Grantee for Mozambique, will use these approaches to convince farmers of the merits of adopting the new technologies via social marketing techniques; to widely disseminate information; and support the exchange of information to and from farmers and other actors regarding the improved technologies. All of these activities will complement related non-ICT activities (such as agriculture extension services and marketing) being used as part of the New Alliance to contribute to its success. The purpose of this NFO is to identify and select one organization, likely but not necessarily with sub-grantees, that is results-oriented, can forge sets of scaled ICT-enabled services – and change them as needed depending on results and changing conditions – to increase the adoption rates of the targeted new technologies by smallholder farmers.

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