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DOS-NBO-PDS-FY24-004: U.S.- Kenya Higher Education Partnership 2024

Closed Closed July 15, 2024 Opportunity DOS-NBO-PDS-FY24-004 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: U.S.-Africa Strategic Investment Program (DFOP0019410). Status: Closes May 31, 2027 (205 days left). It is in our archive of U.S. Mission to Kenya notices from 2024.

• Award ceiling$200,000
• Award floor$100,000
• Expected awards3
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Accredited U.S. higher education institutions

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past State/African Regional - Other Economic Support Funds (ESF) Projects/Programs awards averaged $509,098; this notice allows up to $200,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) of the U.S. Department of State announces a full and open competition for U.S. higher education institutions to submit applications to carry out a program to facilitate U.S.-Kenya Higher Education Partnership Program. Please follow all instructions below. Program Objectives: By 2050, one in four people, a quarter of the world’s population, and one in three working-age people will live in Africa. Africa is both the youngest continent and the last and largest emerging market. In the same way that American business schools previously established campuses in places like Singapore and Dubai to leverage international business opportunities in Asia, Nairobi is the place to build platforms now to access and benefit from the world’s last great emerging market, Sub-Saharan Africa. Kenya is already the regional financial hub for East Africa and the home to the Silicon Savannah, a vibrant technology community that makes Kenya the premier destination for tech sector investments and innovation in Africa, with many leading U.S. companies such as Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco already here. As modern Kenya is trying to grow an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) marketplace for the future, the U.S. Embassy’s Public Diplomacy Section seeks to partner with U.S. higher education institutions through targeted grants to facilitate academic, research, and private sector-growth partnerships with Kenyan universities. This is an opportune moment to increase U.S. engagement in Kenya’s ICT space for rising engineers and entrepreneurs to prioritize and benefit from U.S. partnership in expanding Kenya’s promising economic prospects, especially in ICT. University partnerships are intended to directly and demonstrably enhance U.S.-Kenya collaboration in science, engineering, mathematics, and tech-driven job growth. The basic parameters for this proposed program are: 1. Must include a long-term joint initiative with a Kenyan university and/or research institution. Proposed initiatives must demonstrate ways in which they will be sustainable over time. 2. Must focus on some combination of technology research and development as well as private-sector job growth. 3. Must include onsite activities through the proposed program in Kenya at the Kenyan partner university and/or research institution. 4.

Category: Education.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, DFOP0019410, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.