Improving Adolescent Health and Well-Being in Urban Areas | BAA NIGERIA HPNIAH 2019

Opportunity Information: Apply for BAA NIGERIA HPNIAH 2019

USAID, through its mission in Abuja, issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) titled "Improving Adolescent Health and Well-Being in Urban Areas" to bring in partners who can help develop, test, and expand new ways to improve health outcomes for urban, poor, unmarried adolescents ages 15 to 19 in selected Nigerian cities. The core goal is to increase the voluntary uptake and sustained use of family planning products and services among this group, recognizing that adolescents in dense urban settings often face distinct barriers such as cost, stigma, lack of youth-friendly services, limited privacy, misinformation, and inconsistent access to appropriate methods and counseling.

Rather than funding a single predefined project, this opportunity is structured as a collaborative innovation process. USAID is looking for organizations, companies, and investors willing to participate in co-creation and co-design, meaning applicants are expected to work alongside USAID to shape solutions instead of simply proposing a fully formed program. The emphasis is on interventions and approaches that are innovative but also practical and cost-effective, with a clear pathway from early-stage development to real-world testing and eventual scaling if the solution proves effective. USAID frames this as Research and Development (R and D) work focused on solving a stated problem and challenge, and it anticipates selecting promising respondents to jointly refine and build out their ideas.

A central feature of the BAA is co-investment. USAID is explicitly seeking partners who can share responsibility, risk, and resources in ways that fit each participant's strengths. Importantly, co-investment is not limited to cash; it can include in-kind contributions and intangible assets such as technical expertise, intellectual property, brand reach, specialized coordination capacity, and access to key networks, communities, locations, or data. The expectation is not a strict one-to-one match of resources, but contributions that make sense for the activity and reflect the comparative advantages each partner brings. In practice, this structure is designed to move faster and use resources more efficiently than traditional grant mechanisms by combining USAID support with partner capabilities and investments.

To be considered, interested parties were invited to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI), which functions as an initial signal of capability and concept rather than a full application package. The opportunity was listed as discretionary, under the health activity category (CFDA 98.001), and eligibility was unrestricted, meaning a wide range of entities could respond, including nonprofits, private sector firms, and investment-aligned partners. The funding opportunity number is BAA NIGERIA HPNIAH 2019, it was created on May 30, 2019, and the original closing date for submissions was July 5, 2019. Publicly listed fields such as award ceiling and expected number of awards were not specified in the provided source data, which is common for BAAs that are designed to evolve through addenda and iterative partner engagement rather than commit to a single fixed award structure at the outset.

• The Nigeria USAID-Abuja in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Improving Adolescent Health and Well-Being in Urban Areas" 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 2019-05-30.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2019-07-05. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.

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