Peacebuilding Through Economic Resilience in Host Communities in Northern Cote d'Ivoire and Northern Ghana | SFOP0010339

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The grant opportunity titled "Peacebuilding Through Economic Resilience in Host Communities in Northern Cote d'Ivoire and Northern Ghana" (Funding Opportunity Number SFOP0010339) is a discretionary U.S. government funding call issued by the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. It is designed to reduce tensions and prevent conflict in northern Ghana and northern Cote d'Ivoire by strengthening social cohesion between refugee and asylum seeker populations and the host communities that are absorbing them. The underlying problem the opportunity targets is a growing strain in already impoverished areas where host community members may feel that newcomers are competing with them for limited land, water, livelihoods, and assistance from governments and aid organizations. As these pressures increase, resentment can harden into hostility and local disputes can escalate, so the program focuses on practical, locally grounded economic and resource-governance interventions that can lower the temperature while improving day-to-day living conditions.

The core objective is to improve equitable access to livelihoods for at-risk groups in communities hosting refugees and asylum seekers. Rather than treating social cohesion as a purely dialogue-based or reconciliation exercise, the opportunity frames cohesion as something that can be strengthened when communities see fairer access to economic opportunities and more predictable, inclusive ways of managing shared resources. The program emphasizes three mutually reinforcing lines of effort: first, strengthening inclusive, equitable, and sustainable communal management of land and water resources in host areas; second, increasing equitable economic exchange between host communities and refugee/asylum seeker populations; and third, building conflict management skills so communities have better tools to resolve disputes before they become violent or politically destabilizing. In practice, this suggests activities that improve the transparency and fairness of local resource allocation, reduce perceptions of favoritism, and create channels for joint problem-solving around land and water use, grazing, farming, and market access.

The opportunity is explicitly aligned with Objective 1 of the 10-Year Plan to implement the Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability in Coastal West Africa. In other words, it is not only a local development initiative; it sits within a broader regional stability and conflict-prevention framework that prioritizes early action in areas at risk of spillover from insecurity and displacement dynamics. By improving livelihoods and resource governance in places where refugees and asylum seekers are concentrated, the program aims to reduce triggers of communal conflict and strengthen resilience in communities that might otherwise become flashpoints for broader instability.

From an award and administrative standpoint, the funding instrument is a Cooperative Agreement, which typically indicates substantial engagement by the funding agency during implementation compared with a standard grant. The opportunity lists an award ceiling of USD 1,973,000 and anticipates making one award. The original closing date was June 11, 2024, and the opportunity was created on April 12, 2024. The listing references CFDA number 19.121 and categorizes the activity broadly as "Other" under funding activity category. The eligible applicant field in the provided source data states "For-profit organizations other than small businesses," and the description also mentions Foreign Public Entities and Public International Organizations (PIOs), indicating the call is oriented toward organizational implementers with the operational capacity to work in cross-community, potentially sensitive environments, and to coordinate with local governance structures and humanitarian actors.

Overall, the grant is best understood as a peacebuilding-through-livelihoods and shared-resource-management program targeted at host-refugee/asylum seeker dynamics in northern Ghana and northern Cote d'Ivoire. It seeks to reduce resentment and competition by making access to land, water, and economic opportunity more equitable and by strengthening local conflict management mechanisms, with the larger aim of reinforcing stability and social cohesion in a region facing mounting displacement-related pressures.

• The Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Operations in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Peacebuilding Through Economic Resilience in Host Communities in Northern Cote d'Ivoire and Northern Ghana" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.121.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-04-12.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-11. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,973,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: For-profit organizations other than small businesses.

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