USAID’s Let Girls Learn Initiative Call for Concept Notes

Deadline: 30 November 2015

The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Broad Agency Announcement for Let Girls Learn Initiative seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate in the research, development, piloting, testing, and scaling of innovative, practical and cost-effective interventions to address adolescent girls’ education.

USAID invites organizations and companies to participate with USAID to create strategic, focused and results-oriented partnerships to promote adolescent girls’ education and apply comprehensive scientific and research-motivated approaches to support sustainable development outcomes.

Let Girls Learn is a new whole-of-government initiative to ensure adolescent girls get the education they deserve. Building on USAID’s initial Let Girls Learn funding and education programs, the initiative elevates existing programs, including in areas of conflict and crisis, leverages public-private partnerships, and challenges organizations and governments to commit resources to lift up adolescent girls worldwide.

Let Girls Learn will address a range of issues that prevent adolescent girls from completing their education by ensuring a quality education, reducing barriers to access, including harmful practices and attitudes, and empowering adolescent girls. Interventions to ensure a quality education may focus on providing girls with a quality, relevant education in safe schools, promoting the hiring and training of teachers as well as the use of gender-sensitive materials, and helping girls to acquire education alternatives, workforce training and employment opportunities.

Public, private, for-profit, and nonprofit organizations, as well as institutions of higher education, public international organizations, non-governmental organizations, U.S. and non-U.S. governmental organizations, multilateral and international donor organizations are eligible under this BAA. All organizations must be determined to be responsive to the BAA and sufficiently responsible to perform or participate in the final award type.

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