Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) | 720BHA23RFA00001

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) is a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding opportunity focused on food and nutrition outcomes in the DRC through a resilience-oriented approach. The opportunity is structured as a discretionary award under a Cooperative Agreement, which generally means USAID expects to have substantial involvement during implementation (for example, in coordinating, collaborating on technical direction, aligning with broader USAID strategies, and ensuring adaptive management in a complex operating environment). The program is positioned within USAID's food and nutrition funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 98.007.

From a funding and scale standpoint, this is a very large opportunity. The posted award ceiling is $317,000,000, and USAID anticipates making up to four awards. That combination strongly suggests a multi-award program design, potentially with activities divided by geography, technical focus areas, or implementation modalities to cover different needs and contexts across the DRC. While the ceiling represents the maximum potential funding level, actual award sizes typically depend on final program design, the number of awards made, and USAID's available funding and priorities at the time of award.

Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning the competition is open to any type of entity, as long as it meets any additional eligibility requirements described in the full solicitation text. In practice, opportunities of this size and complexity often attract consortia that can bring together complementary strengths, such as food security and nutrition programming, community resilience and livelihoods, health systems linkages, governance and conflict sensitivity, monitoring and evaluation, and strong field presence. Because this is a cooperative agreement and a resilience food security activity, applicants are usually expected to demonstrate both technical depth and operational capacity, including the ability to work across multiple sectors and adapt to changing conditions.

The funding opportunity is identified by the title "Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA)" and the opportunity number 720BHA23RFA00001. The issuing agency is the Agency for International Development, and the opportunity was created on January 3, 2023. The posting includes an important timeline note indicating that comments on the draft RFSA Request for Applications (RFA) were due by 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on February 2, 2023, which signals that USAID was, at that stage, seeking stakeholder feedback before finalizing the solicitation. The inclusion of a draft-comment period often indicates a major procurement where USAID wants to improve clarity, feasibility, and alignment with on-the-ground realities before final release and submission of full applications.

Overall, this opportunity represents a high-value, multi-award USAID initiative aimed at strengthening resilience and improving food security and nutrition in the DRC, implemented through cooperative agreements and open to a broad range of applicants, with the expectation of robust capacity, strong partnerships, and the ability to deliver at scale in a challenging context.

• The Agency for International Development in the food and nutrition sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.007.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jan 03, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Comments on draft RFSA RFA are due by 1200pm EST on February 2, 2023. (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 $317,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 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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