REQUEST FOR APPLICATION (RFA) USAID Power Africa-funded Empowering East and Central (EECA)

PUE companies must create awareness of the technology, find the customers with the ability to pay (for agricultural value chains, customers are mostly in a geographically dispersed rural area), showcase the value proposition to the customers, and train users and provide after sale support; all of which contribute to the high cost of customer acquisition further worsening the affordability challeng. [...] Applicants must have experience, presence, and organizational mandate to operate in any of the East and Central African countries and contribute to the project overall goal and objectives. [...] The precise type of award and award agreement will be determined by, among others, pre-award assessment, the nature of the activities to be conducted and the nature of the organization seeking to receive and manage USAID funding. [...] 7 SECTION 4: APPLICATION AND SUBMISSION a) Instructions to applicants The proposed activities should be linked to this RFA objectives and clearly show their contribution to the project goal and help to solve the problem statement of USAID EECA activity to increase the availability of and access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and clean energy in East and Central Africa. [...] It will be the applicant's responsibility to read and understand the RFA and ensure that their application addresses all the items listed in the Technical Application Instructions and in the Evaluation Criteria.