Opportunity Information: Apply for 7200A18RFAA00015
The USAID grant opportunity titled "Targeting Natural Resource Corruption" (Funding Opportunity Number 7200A18RFAA00015) is a cooperative agreement designed to strengthen the fight against wildlife trafficking and other environmental crimes by directly addressing corruption that enables these activities. Structured as a Leader with Associates Award, the program is set up to provide both global-level leadership and mission-level support, meaning it can generate guidance and tools that apply broadly while also helping individual USAID Missions integrate anticorruption approaches into their country programs focused on biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, and democracy, rights, and governance.
At its core, the opportunity recognizes that environmental crimes often thrive where bribery, collusion, political interference, weak enforcement, and compromised institutions allow illegal extraction, trafficking, and laundering of natural resources to continue with low risk. By targeting corruption as a key driver, the program aims to make wildlife trafficking and related crimes harder to carry out and more costly for perpetrators. The grant is therefore positioned at the intersection of conservation and governance, emphasizing that protecting biodiversity is not only a technical conservation challenge but also an institutional and political-economy challenge.
The program has two main objectives. First, it seeks to build on global experience across sectors to provide thought leadership and practical support for anticorruption work in natural resource contexts. This includes identifying and sharing best practices, developing tools and guidance, and creating opportunities for partnerships that bring together relevant actors across government, civil society, the private sector, and international organizations. The intent is to help practitioners move from general anticorruption principles to approaches that are tailored to the realities of wildlife trafficking, forestry crime, illegal fishing, and other environmentally damaging illicit markets.
Second, the opportunity is designed to directly support USAID Missions so they can better address corruption within their portfolios related to wildlife trafficking, natural resources management, and biodiversity conservation. In practice, this implies technical assistance that helps Missions diagnose where corruption risks are most severe, integrate anticorruption measures into project design and implementation, strengthen monitoring and learning around corruption risks and mitigation, and align conservation programming with broader governance and rule-of-law efforts. The focus is not only on producing reports or frameworks, but also on helping USAID operating units apply anticorruption thinking in real programs and partnerships.
From an administrative standpoint, this is an earmark-category opportunity under the Natural Resources funding activity category, issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development (CFDA 98.001). Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning a wide range of entities may apply (subject to any additional eligibility clarifications that may have been included in the full solicitation). The ceiling for the award is $10,000,000, with an expectation of one award. The opportunity was created on March 30, 2018, with an original closing date of May 29, 2018, indicating a competitive selection for a single implementing partner capable of delivering high-level expertise and mission support at scale.
Overall, "Targeting Natural Resource Corruption" is best understood as an effort to mainstream and elevate anticorruption work within conservation and natural resource programming. It aims to reduce the corruption that fuels wildlife trafficking and environmental crime by combining global technical leadership, practical tools and partnerships, and hands-on assistance to USAID Missions so anticorruption measures become a routine and effective part of biodiversity and natural resource interventions.Apply for 7200A18RFAA00015
- The Agency for International Development in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Targeting Natural Resource Corruption" 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 30, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 29, 2018. (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 $10,000,000.00 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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