Poultry Value Chain Assessment in Tanzania | USDA FAS 10960 0700 10 21 0025

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The "Poultry Value Chain Assessment in Tanzania" grant opportunity was a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) initiative designed to fund applied research that maps and explains how poultry meat and eggs move through Tanzania's supply chains and market systems. The central goal is practical: generate evidence that helps increase the availability of poultry products for Tanzanian consumers by pinpointing what is currently limiting production, distribution, and trade, and by identifying where targeted capacity building or technical assistance could make the biggest difference. The project is explicitly meant to use quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research so that findings capture both measurable market dynamics (prices, volumes, margins, costs, logistics) and on-the-ground realities (business constraints, compliance burdens, informal practices, and stakeholder perceptions).

A key feature of the program is its emphasis on direct engagement with the full range of actors who influence poultry and egg markets. The selected recipient is expected to work closely with FAS to organize and carry out structured survey interviews with a representative mix of stakeholders across the value chain. This includes importers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, institutional buyers, food manufacturers and processors, hotel-restaurant-institutional (HRI) professionals, trade associations, local government representatives, national-level policy makers, and consumers. In practice, this means the research is not limited to farm-level production issues; it is intended to cover how products and inputs are sourced, handled, stored, transported, processed, sold, and regulated, and how those realities shape affordability and access.

The research scope was laid out in five main focus areas. First, the project must assess the structure and performance of poultry meat and egg supply chain segments in Tanzania, covering both domestic supply and imports, and also paying attention to transshipment flows to and from neighboring countries. Second, it must examine the current market for U.S. exports to Tanzania, not only for poultry products (meat and eggs) but also for important inputs such as feed grains, and describe how that market could expand over time. Third, the assessment must analyze Tanzania's agricultural trade policies affecting poultry meat, eggs, and feed, with specific attention to how policy directions might shift following a recent change in government. Fourth, the work must deliver a gap analysis of capacity building and technical assistance needs in the poultry and egg industry, including enabling systems like cold chain infrastructure, grades and standards, agricultural extension services, and the feed sector. Fifth, the project must produce actionable recommendations to improve the methods, processes, and tools used by Tanzania's Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development to identify trade opportunities and track market trends at national, international, and intra-regional levels, with the broader intention of enabling stronger two-way trade with the United States and informing FAS and relevant U.S. industries.

The grant also described a set of expected project components that outline how the work should be executed. It begins with a discovery phase, where FAS and the recipient align on objectives, refine the priority questions, and agree on sampling strategies and questionnaire design. After reviewing existing information and prior studies, the recipient is expected to develop the survey instruments that will be used throughout the project. The main data collection phase centers on interviewing primary supply chain actors such as producers, traders, processors, input suppliers, trade associations, and government officials, along with additional entities identified in consultation with FAS. The overall deliverable implied by this structure is a market-relevant, stakeholder-grounded assessment that can guide both Tanzanian capacity-building priorities and U.S. export strategy in poultry and feed-related sectors.

Administratively, this was a discretionary funding opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under its Global Programs, using a cooperative agreement funding instrument, meaning the agency anticipated active collaboration with the awardee rather than a hands-off grant. The opportunity was categorized under agriculture (CFDA 10.960), with eligibility open to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)). The funding opportunity number was USDA FAS 10960 0700 10 21 0025. The program planned to make one award, with an award ceiling of $180,000. It was posted on July 15, 2021, with an original application closing date of August 16, 2021.

• The Department of Agriculture, Global Programs in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Poultry Value Chain Assessment in Tanzania" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.960.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 15, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 16, 2021. (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 $180,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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