Call for Comments – Potential Grant Competition for Fuel-Efficient Cookstove Distribution in Kenya

We received a request to post this announcement:

The United States Agency for International Development and Winrock International are soliciting Expressions of Interest (“EOIs”) in support of a possible 18-month, $1 million USD (maximum) grant award (or awards).

The purpose of the award(s) would be to strengthen the private sector distribution of fuel-efficient biomass cookstoves in Kenya. This is not a request for applications for grant funding.  Rather, the role of this announcement is to share the draft program description in order to: (i) Gather feedback from potential stakeholders about the proposed parameters of the possible grant competition; and (ii) Identify potential applicants interested in developing proposals for future RFAs in this technical field and geographic area. Submitting an EOI is not a pre-requisite for responding to an eventual RFA nor will it confer any advantage.

If you are interested in this program description and the possible funding opportunity, please submit to Winrock by January 11th, 2013, a brief EOI following the submission instructions in Section 3 of the detailed program description document available at the following link http://www.relwa.org/call_comments_potential_grant_competition_kenya

We encourage you to provide constructive comments regarding the draft program description, whether or not you intend to respond to a potential future RFA.