Opportunity Information: Apply for AFLAG 22 01
The U.S. Consulate General Lagos Public Affairs Section (PAS) issued this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to support a registered U.S. Government-sponsored Nigerian alumni organization in southern Nigeria to design and run an alumni small grants program. The core idea is that one alumni association (or eligible alumni umbrella/registered body) will receive funding under a cooperative agreement to create the full system for a competitive small-grants initiative: outreach and marketing, application intake, selection procedures, grant disbursement, oversight, monitoring, and results reporting. The Consulate is looking for an organization that can manage the program end-to-end and demonstrate the capacity to run a fair, transparent, and well-documented process that produces strong community-level projects led by U.S. exchange program alumni.
Eligibility is limited to registered U.S. Government-sponsored Nigerian alumni associations operating in southern Nigeria. This includes alumni groups connected to USGEAA southern chapters and specific U.S. exchange and leadership programs such as IVLP, MWF, YALI, TechWomen, AWE, CYFAN, Humphrey, and Fulbright. The program is explicitly focused on southern Nigeria within the U.S. Consulate Lagos consular district, and proposals are expected to show a realistic plan for reaching alumni across that geography, not only in the largest cities.
The funded managing organization must run an open call designed to attract 150 applications from alumni of U.S. Government-sponsored programs across southern Nigeria. The NOFO expects the proposal to spell out, in a clear and credible way, how those applications will be promoted and received, and how they will be reviewed and shortlisted. From the pool of applicants, the program must ultimately select 100 small-grant recipients, with selection carried out through a panel process that includes a representative from the U.S. Consulate. In other words, the awardee is not just handing out funds; it is building an application and vetting pipeline with defined criteria, documentation, and shared decision-making with PAS participation.
The small grants themselves are set at $1,000 per project, for a total of 100 alumni-led projects. The NOFO emphasizes balanced distribution across the 17 states in the consular district: Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross-River, Rivers, Delta, Edo, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo. Beyond geography, the Consulate is also requiring reasonable equity across gender and across the different exchange programs represented in the alumni community. A specific allocation requirement is included as well: at least 20 of the 100 funded projects must go to members of the YALI Network. The managing organization is therefore expected to build selection rules and outreach plans that can realistically achieve these distribution goals, rather than selecting purely on a first-come or single-network basis.
The 100 community projects funded through the small grants must align with the priority themes listed in the NOFO. These themes include: strengthening good governance and human rights, particularly through initiatives that encourage higher voter turnout and peaceful elections; advancing womens empowerment and rights, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and job creation; enabling youth-driven initiatives that improve security and stability; supporting education, especially STEM-focused initiatives for public school students; promoting awareness, advocacy, and government accountability to counter wildlife trafficking, including the security and public health risks linked to pangolin scale trafficking; and supporting the inclusion of marginalized groups through sports. Applicants are expected to propose practical community interventions under these areas, and the managing organization must be prepared to monitor implementation and confirm that projects stay within the approved scope.
A notable programming preference is the integration of American Corners and Windows on America as activity venues when possible. Both the overall program design and the individual small-grant projects are encouraged to include trainings, meetings, workshops, and/or seminars hosted at these spaces. The NOFO lists available locations including Lagos (Lekki, Victoria Island, and Ikeja), Ibadan, Calabar, Port Harcourt, Abeokuta, Awka, Enugu, Osogbo, Uyo, and Benin City. This means proposals are stronger when they show how these venues will be used for convening, capacity-building, public engagement, or dissemination activities, and how the organizer will coordinate logistics across multiple states.
The NOFO also sets requirements about who leads each funded project and what content it should include. Every approved small-grant project must be led by a U.S. Government exchange program alumnus or alumna, reinforcing the intent that this is alumni-driven community impact. In addition, projects should incorporate elements of U.S. culture that help increase understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives, aligning the work with PAS public diplomacy goals. The managing organization will need to provide guidance to grantees on how to include these elements in appropriate and locally relevant ways, and how to document them.
Finally, the awardee must build in a strong results and visibility component. The proposal must include a mechanism to collect photos, videos, and written summaries from each small-grant recipient and submit them to PAS for social media and other outreach channels. Practically, this implies setting clear reporting templates, deadlines, consent and media-release practices, and a light-touch but consistent monitoring approach so that each of the 100 projects produces usable documentation and outcome narratives, not just receipts.
From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is run by the Department of State, U.S. Mission to Nigeria, under Funding Opportunity Number AFLAG 22 01. The instrument type is a cooperative agreement, signaling an expectation of close coordination with PAS (including participation in the selection panel and likely ongoing engagement during implementation). The opportunity was posted December 6, 2021, with an original closing date of January 31, 2022, and it lists an award ceiling of $125,000. The activity category is listed as "Other" (as clarified in the NOFO text), and the CFDA number is 19.040.Apply for AFLAG 22 01
- The Department of State, U.S. Mission to Nigeria in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "U.S. Consulate Lagos Public Affairs Section(PAS) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.040.
- This funding opportunity was created on Dec 06, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 31, 2022. (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 $125,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 100 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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