The South Asia Regional Energy Partnership (SAREP) is currently inviting applications for Partnership Fund Round 2 to support market-based transformative solutions to enable the clean energy transition, particularly by engaging the private sector, local organizations, and new, underutilized partners.
It also harnesses innovative business models, solutions, technologies, resources, experiences, and networks of relationships that exist across stakeholders. SPF will achieve this by catalyzing country and regional activities to complement the technical assistance provided by SAREP. SPF aims to expand and maximize the impact of USAID resources innovatively and sustainably through activities designed, owned, and implemented by grantees under the SAREP Program.
The USAID SPF will support market-based transformative solutions to enable the clean energy transition in South Asia, particularly by engaging the private sector, local organizations, and new and underutilized partners. It will also harness innovative business models, solutions, technologies, resources, experiences, and networks of relationships that exist across stakeholders.
This RFA focuses on activities specific to all six SAREP countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Through this RFA, USAID SPF is inviting applications to fund qualified organizations for supporting activities and programs consistent with SAREP’s purpose of improving access to affordable, secure, reliable, and sustainable energy, and its four objectives.
Objectives
A five-year initiative supporting Indo-US collaboration with following objectives:
Developing high performing modern utilities
Increase deployment of advanced energy solutions and systems
Enhance private investments, markets and transparent, best value procurement
Regional energy cooperation and integration of markets
Eligibility Criteria
Entities from the US, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, or Sri Lanka, or other developing countries per USAID’s Automated Directives System (ADS) 310 are eligible to apply, provided they are legally authorized to operate in any of the six SAREP countries
Private sector/for-profit entities
Not-for-profit organizations
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
Civil society organizations
Business service organizations
Industry, trade, or other private sector associations
Educational/training or academic institutions
Think tank/research entities
Local Organizations, New and Under-utilized partners are encouraged to apply!
Have sound financial systems
Have no real or apparent conflicts of interest
Have internal controls to safeguard assets and protect against fraud and waste
Have or commit to secure a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) from SAM.GOV
Abide by applicable regulations and required certifications of USAID
Able to report on achievements and outputs in line with RTI’s approved M&E plan
Have written and well-articulated ethics/conflict of interest policies
Ensure compliance with environmental monitoring and mitigation requirements
