Child Protection and Care (CPC) | RFI 442 25 001

Opportunity Information: Apply for RFI 442 25 001

The Child Protection and Care (CPC) opportunity is a USAID/Cambodia (Phnom Penh) grant initiative being planned as a five-year activity running from 2025 through 2029. It is centered on improving Cambodia's overall child protection and care system so that children who are most underserved and marginalized are better able to grow up in safe, loving, nurturing, and permanent family-based care. The activity emphasizes keeping children with their birth families whenever possible, supporting kinship care when parents cannot provide care, and strengthening options for local adoptive families when family reunification or kinship care is not feasible. In practice, the core intent is to reduce the conditions that push children out of families, improve the systems that respond when children are at risk or separated, and ensure that any alternative care is stable, appropriate, and focused on the child's long-term wellbeing.

USAID expects this effort to be implemented through one or more awards, with up to five awards anticipated. The funding instrument type is a cooperative agreement, which typically means USAID plans to remain actively involved in the activity's implementation through substantial engagement in planning, coordination, and oversight compared with a standard grant. The opportunity is listed under an "Other" opportunity category and an "Other" funding activity category, and it is associated with CFDA number 98.001, which reflects USAID's foreign assistance programming.

From a funding standpoint, the listed award ceiling is USD 7,500,000. The eligible applicants field is marked "Unrestricted," indicating that a wide range of organizations may be able to apply, depending on the final solicitation requirements. While the provided description does not spell out specific technical components or required approaches, the stated purpose strongly points toward programming that reinforces national and subnational child protection structures and services, improves prevention and case management, and expands the capacity of communities and institutions to prioritize family-based care and permanency. Activities consistent with this purpose often include strengthening social service workforce capacity, improving referral and case tracking systems, enhancing coordination across government and civil society, supporting family strengthening and reunification, building safeguards and standards for any alternative care settings, and ensuring that children with complex vulnerabilities are identified and supported in ways that keep their safety and best interests at the center.

Administratively, the funding opportunity title is "Child Protection and Care (CPC)" and the funding opportunity number is RFI 442 25 001. The agency is listed as Cambodia USAID-Phnom Penh, with a creation date of 2024-10-10 and an original closing date of 2024-10-28. The "RFI" label in the opportunity number suggests this may be structured as a request for information stage, which is commonly used to gather input from potential implementers and stakeholders before USAID finalizes and releases a full solicitation.

• The Cambodia USAID-Phnom Penh in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Child Protection and Care (CPC)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-10-10.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-10-28. (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 $7,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.

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