NPI Annual Program Statement (New Partnerships Initiative (NPI)/Conflict Prevention and Recovery Program (CPRP) Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance)

Background
The New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) helps the Agency partner with new, nontraditional, and local partners to advance their development goals by elevating local leadership, fostering equity and accountability, and mobilizing resources across the Agency’s programs. NPI seeks to operationalize principles articulated in the Agency’s updated 2022 Acquisition and Assistance Strategy, including Objective 3: “A more diverse set of partners engaged to implement locally led development solutions.”

NPI’s focus on lowering barriers to entry to working with USAID, improving collaboration with new, nontraditional, and local actors, supporting greater local engagement, enhancing local capacity strengthening, and expanding the use of co-creation is closely linked with key issues of rebalancing power and accountability to local populations.

Grant Details
The New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) seeks to engage new, nontraditional, and local partners to expand and amplify the Agency’s work in contexts at the risk of or recovering from conflict or violence. The overall goal of NPI is to help the Agency partner with new, nontraditional, and local actors to advance their development goals—while elevating the quality of partnerships through strengthened accountability, capacity, and local leadership.

The APS is designed to specific Administration and Agency priorities and criteria for new, nontraditional, and local partners. Individual USAID Missions or Bureaus will request Concept Papers via Addenda as the first step in a three-step process that could result in USAID funding for an idea. Interested organizations should read this entire APS as well as any Addenda and follow the instructions for submitting a Concept Paper.

Eligibility Requirements
The New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) uses three specific approaches for engagement: direct awards to nontraditional partners; mentoring awards; and nontraditional financing partnerships. Eligible applicants include local entities, locally established partners (LEPs), new and underutilized organizations, regional partners, U.S. or international organizations that work through locally led operations and programming models (LEPs), organizations that have never received any funding from USAID or have received less than $25 million cumulatively in direct or indirect awards from USAID over the last five years.

Period of Performance
The closing date for this grant opportunity is April 10, 2025. The initial period of performance must be 60 months or less.

Grant Value
The NPI/CPRP APS is not supported by specific funds. Any funding for proposed programs under this APS will come through specific Addenda issued by USAID Missions or B/IOs. Proposed Concept Papers should meet minimum and maximum application funding amounts as described in each Addendum.

Place of Performance
This umbrella funding opportunity establishes the overall purpose, criteria, process, and rationale under which the Agency’s Operating Units will issue specific requirements (Addenda). Specific programmatic and geographic priorities will be expressed through individual Addenda issued on an as-needed basis.