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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444'><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwv9wnkKZtszSFI4ZW1JdU1ycVpVUXFIclRFOTNHMFJ0VlhN"><b>Annual Program Statement (APS): Sustainable Livelihoods for Conservation and Resilience to Climate Change</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.75pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333'>ECODIT is implementing the USAID-funded Green Annamites Project in Quang Nam and Thua Thien Hue provinces. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>The USAID Green Annamites project supports Quang Nam and Thua Thien Hue provinces to protect the region’s globally significant biodiversity and help local and ethnic minority communities to diversify and improve their livelihoods.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>ECODIT is seeking concept papers from qualified, Vietnamese, US or international, non-profit or for-profit, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to scale up existing sustainable productive activities (i.e. agribusiness and ecotourism) that have positive social and environmental impacts while improving the livelihoods of the project’s target communities in Quang Nam and Thua Thien Hue provinces.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Issuance Date: October 20, 2017</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Closing Date for Submission of Concept Papers: September 30, 2018</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Submissions to: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444'><a href="mailto:af.grants@ecodit.com.vn"><b>af.grants@ecodit.com.vn</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Please find the following link for more information:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.ngocentre.org.vn/news/annual-program-statement-aps-usaid-green-annamites-project-sustainable-livelihoods-conservation">http://www.ngocentre.org.vn/news/annual-program-statement-aps-usaid-green-annamites-project-sustainable-livelihoods-conservation</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>