USAID will fund up to 3 grants to increase the availability of and access to open geospatial data.
Through engagement with youth-led and youth-serving organizations, the United States Agency for International Development is set to award up to 3 grants ranging from $500k to $7.5 million for their Youth Open Geospatial Data Activity (YODA), due May 6th.
With the intent of generating cross-sectoral positive youth development outcomes, USAID intends to empower local communities by equipping university-aged youth to use open source geospatial data and technology to address local challenges like climate change, public health, food security, gender equity and humanitarian assistance.
“Concepts should focus on youth development of skills to create new geographic data, make maps, and perform geospatial analysis using remote sensing and geographic information systems,” according to their recent grant addendum.
Concept notes, five pages maximum, are required to be submitted in advance of full grant applications and are due May 6th. The notes will then be reviewed, and authors should expect to hear from the agency within 45 days. If there is interest in further discussions, the USAID GeoCenter will engage in a round of co-creation prior to the submission of full applications.
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