OpportunityTitle: Lower Mekong Initiative Grant Opportunity
Description: The U.S. Embassy Bangkok announces a competition for organizations in the Lower Mekong area (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) interested in projects that fall under one of the Lower Mekong Initiative&#8217;s (LMI) six pillars: Agriculture and Food Security, Connectivity, Education, Energy Security, Environment and Water, Health, or the cross-cutting areas of the nexus of water, energy, and food security development challenges and gender equality and women&#8217;s empowerment. Programs must work toward the goal of equitable, sustainable, and inclusive growth among the five LMI partner countries by collaboratively addressing regional trans-boundary development and policy challenges. Grant proposals may be in various sizes and should involve work with more than one LMI country. Grants should be between $5,000 and $50,000 but larger request will be considered. Proposals in which a foreign government (including regional, municipal, or other local-level government) is a grantee or intended beneficiary of the award will not be considered. The application for this grant is available in an Word document. For any questions about this funding opportunity, please contact the Regional Environment Office in Bangkok by email at REOBangkok@state.gov. Please complete the application form and SF424 package, and submit your application to REOBangkok@state.gov no later than May 11, 2016.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: work email
GrantorContactText: Tahra Vose &lt;br/&gt;Regional Environment Officer &lt;br/&gt;Phone 66-2-205-4712