USAID Advancing Food Fortification Opportunities to Reinforce Diets (USAID AFFORD) | 7200AA22RFA00014

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The USAID Advancing Food Fortification Opportunities to Reinforce Diets (USAID AFFORD) funding opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 7200AA22RFA00014) is a U.S. Agency for International Development discretionary grant competition focused on food and nutrition. USAID issued the opportunity on March 18, 2022, with an original application closing date of April 18, 2022. The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically means that USAID expects substantial involvement during implementation, including coordination on technical direction, approvals, monitoring, and collaboration on key decisions rather than a purely hands-off grant relationship.

The program title signals an emphasis on advancing food fortification as a practical, large-scale nutrition intervention. In general terms, food fortification initiatives aim to improve diets by adding essential vitamins and minerals to widely consumed foods (often staple foods or commonly used condiments) to address micronutrient deficiencies across populations. The AFFORD framing suggests that the activity is meant to strengthen or expand opportunities for fortification in ways that measurably reinforce diet quality, often by improving access to fortified foods, supporting enabling environments (like standards, regulations, and quality assurance systems), and helping markets and supply chains deliver appropriately fortified products.

Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning the competition is open to any type of entity that otherwise meets standard federal and USAID requirements, with the caveat that applicants must follow any additional eligibility details described in the full Notification of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). In practice, this could include nonprofits, for-profits, universities, international organizations, and other qualified entities, either as a single applicant or as part of a consortium, depending on what the NOFO allows and what the technical approach requires.

USAID anticipated making a single award under this solicitation, with an award ceiling of $75,000,000. A single-award structure of this size often indicates a preference for an implementer (or lead organization with partners) capable of managing a large, multi-country or multi-component effort, including technical nutrition expertise, private sector engagement, policy and regulatory support, monitoring and evaluation, and strong financial and compliance systems. The listing associates the opportunity with CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) number 98.001, which is the standard listing for USAID foreign assistance programs.

The public synopsis does not provide program specifics beyond directing applicants to the NOFO for complete details. That NOFO would normally include the activity’s objectives, expected outcomes, geographic scope, performance indicators, required technical elements, partnership expectations, branding and marking rules, reporting, budget guidance, and the criteria USAID uses to evaluate applications. For anyone trying to understand requirements such as country coverage, target foods or nutrients, expected coordination with host governments and industry, or the precise definition of “food fortification opportunities” under AFFORD, the NOFO is the authoritative source.

• The Agency for International Development in the food and nutrition sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "USAID Advancing Food Fortification Opportunities to Reinforce Diets (USAID AFFORD)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
• This funding opportunity was created on Mar 18, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 18, 2022. (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 $75,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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