The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Mission to ASEAN (USASEAN)
announces an open competition for a cooperative agreement to develop and
implement the 2019 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI)
Seeds for the Future small grants program. The program will provide
subgrants up to $15,000 to Southeast Asian youth from all eleven YSEALI
countries. Following an open application process, up to 20 subgrant
winners will be selected to implement nine-month projects across the
four core YSEALI issue areas.
Priority Region: Southeast Asia
Program Objectives:
The Seeds for the Future program will allow YSEALI youth to implement
public service projects that improve their communities by addressing
one or more of the four core YSEALI themes: Civic Engagement, Economic
Growth, Education, and Sustainable Development. Multilateral project
proposal submissions, that involve more than one country, are
encouraged.
Registered YSEALI members, aged 18-35, who are citizens of Brunei,
Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. All participants must be proficient
in written and spoken English.
ELIGILIBITY INFORMATION
- Eligible Applicants
The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations
- Public and private educational institutions
- Individuals
- Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions
- Cost Sharing or Matching
Providing cost sharing is not a requirement for this NOFO. However,
it may be considered in the merit review to break ties among
applications with equivalent scores after evaluation against all other
factors.
- Other Eligibility Requirements
In order to be eligible to receive an award, all organizations must
have a unique entity identifier (Data Universal Numbering System/DUNS
number from Dun & Bradstreet), as well as a valid registration on
www.SAM.gov. Please see Section D.3 for information on how to obtain
these registrations. Individuals are not required to have a unique
entity identifier or be registered in SAM.gov.
