Grant Competition Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative

September 22, 2008

Higher Education for Development (HED) announces an open competition during fall 2008, to fund up to 20 capacity-building partnership grants of $50,000 each. The awards will support plans for long-term collaborations between African and U.S. higher education institutions. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $1 million for the planning grants. Consistent with HED's policy of open and fair competition, any accredited U.S. higher education institution will be eligible and encouraged to apply for collaboration with an African institution in response to the criteria established in the RFA.

The Initiative intends to build African higher education institutional capacity for instruction and problem-solving to address regional and national economic development priorities. The focus may be in program areas such as agriculture, environment and natural resources, health, science and technology, engineering, education and teacher training, management, business, and economics.

To receive e-mail updates about the Initiative and announcements about the release of the RFA, interested parties are invited to sign up for the Initiative listserv by sending a name, title, university/organization, department, and email address to info[at]africa-initiative.org.

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