The Feed the Future Livestock
Systems Innovation Lab (LSIL) is based at the Institute of Food and
Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida and it works in partnership with
the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The LSIL is funded
by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through a
five-year Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement Award No. AID-OAA-L-15-00003.
The
aim of LSIL is to improve the nutrition, health and incomes of the poor by
sustainably increasing livestock productivity and marketing and consumption of
animal-source foods. This aim will be
achieved using by introducing new location-appropriate technologies, by improving
management practices, skills, knowledge, capacity and access to and quality of
inputs across livestock value chains, and by supporting the development of a
policy environment that fosters sustainable intensification and increased
profitability of smallholder livestock systems.
The
target countries for this RFA are Ethiopia, Nepal and Rwanda.
The
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems (LSIL) will draw on the
expertise of target country, U.S. and foreign universities, institutes and organizations
through competitively-funded long-term, multi-disciplinary, integrated applied
research and capacity-building projects. The competitive subaward projects will
address country-specific research and capacity building priorities that were
developed in a participatory manner with key local and national stakeholders in
each country.
Types
of Grants
The
following types of grants will be funded:
1.
Reach
Grants: These are longer term large grants with a project period of up to four
years starting in October 2016 and a budget of up to $1,000,000.
2.
Focus
Grants: These are smaller grants for proof of concept studies or research for
development bridging studies providing immediate or near-term (within one year)
impact. These projects will last for 3 months to 1 year and will have budgets
of up to $100,000.
Request
for Applications
Please
click on the following link for the RFA and supporting documents:
Important
Dates
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Deadline for submission of Reach grant concept notes
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June 23, 2016
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Deadline for submission of
selected Reach grant concept notes
as full proposals
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August 5, 2016
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Deadline for submission of Focus grant proposals
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July 2, 2016
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Submission
Guidelines
All Concept Notes and Full
Proposals must be submitted via the Piestar website at https://proposals.piestar.com/login. You will need to create an account at https://proposals.piestar.com/opportunities/livestock
and follow the detailed submission instructions. If you have technical
difficulties with submission click on “Help.”
Contact Information
To contact LSIL, please send an email to livestocklab@ufl.edu
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