Reading for All | RFA 367 17 000009

Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA 367 17 000009

The Reading for All grant opportunity (RFA 367-17-000009) is a USAID-funded education activity designed to strengthen early grade reading for children with disabilities in grades 1 through 3 within districts already supported by USAID's Early Grade Reading Program (EGRP). The core focus is not general literacy programming for all learners, but targeted improvements that help ensure children with disabilities are identified, supported, and able to achieve better reading outcomes in the early primary years, when foundational literacy skills are typically established.

This opportunity is offered as a discretionary award using a Cooperative Agreement, which usually means the recipient should expect substantial involvement from the U.S. Agency for International Development during implementation. The issuing agency is the Agency for International Development, and the funding activity category is Education under CFDA 98.001. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning a wide range of organizations may apply, subject to any additional eligibility details that may have appeared in the full announcement.

The activity is organized around three main objectives. First, it aims to improve the quality of data on children with disabilities. In practice, this tends to involve strengthening how children with disabilities are identified and recorded in education systems, improving disability-related indicators in program monitoring, and making sure learning assessment and reporting systems capture reliable information about participation and reading progress for these learners. Better data quality is meant to address a common barrier in inclusive education: children with disabilities often remain under-identified or inconsistently documented, which makes it difficult to plan services, allocate resources, and measure learning gains accurately.

Second, Reading for All seeks to build institutional and technical capacity at multiple levels to deliver quality reading instruction and support to children with disabilities. This can include capacity building for teachers, school leaders, local education officials, and other relevant actors who influence classroom instruction and learner support. The emphasis is on improving the ability of the education system to provide effective early grade reading instruction that is inclusive, which often involves training, coaching, materials adaptation, guidance on reasonable accommodations, and strengthening referral or support mechanisms where they exist. The intent is to move beyond one-off interventions by improving the broader system's ability to serve children with disabilities in routine early grade reading implementation.

Third, the opportunity supports testing inclusive instructional models that can be scaled for specific groups of children with disabilities. This objective highlights an applied learning approach: pilot and evaluate strategies that improve reading for particular disability groups, then refine those approaches into models that can be expanded within EGRP districts and potentially beyond. The focus on scalability suggests that USAID is looking for interventions that are practical for education systems to adopt at larger scale, not only small, high-cost pilots. It also implies attention to evidence, implementation feasibility, and the conditions needed for successful expansion, such as training requirements, costs, and integration with existing EGRP structures.

The award ceiling listed is $3,500,000, and the opportunity anticipated up to 10 awards. The opportunity was created on September 26, 2017, with an original closing date of October 25, 2017. Overall, the grant centers on making early grade reading more inclusive by improving disability-related data, strengthening system capacity to teach and support children with disabilities effectively, and generating scalable instructional approaches that measurably improve reading outcomes for learners with specific disability-related needs in USAID-supported districts.

• The Agency for International Development in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Reading for All" 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 Sep 26, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Oct 25, 2017. (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 $3,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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