Opportunity Information: Apply for PAS USASEAN FY23 02
The 2024 U.S.-ASEAN Women's Leadership Academy for YSEALI is a U.S. Department of State (U.S. Mission to ASEAN, Public Affairs Section) grant opportunity to fund one organization through a cooperative agreement to design and run a regional leadership program for young women in Southeast Asia and Timor-Leste. The Academy is planned to take place in an ASEAN member state (location to be determined) and is contingent on available funding. The central program theme is "The Next Meal: Ensuring Food Security for a Combined One Billion People," positioning the Academy at the intersection of women's leadership, regional cooperation, and practical solutions to food security challenges that affect ASEAN economies and communities.
At its core, the Academy sits under YSEALI (Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative), the U.S. government's flagship youth engagement platform in Southeast Asia. YSEALI aims to build a cross-border network of emerging leaders, strengthen leadership skills, deepen U.S.-Southeast Asia ties, and encourage collaborative problem-solving on shared regional issues. While YSEALI broadly serves leaders ages 18 to 35 across ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste, this particular Academy targets women ages 20 to 35 who already have professional or research experience connected to food security. The program is explicitly regional: participants must collectively represent all 10 ASEAN member states plus Timor-Leste, emphasizing diversity of national perspectives while building a shared ASEAN-oriented identity and approach to common challenges.
The Academy advances two YSEALI thematic areas, Economic Empowerment and Social Entrepreneurship as well as Environmental Issues, and it is designed to align with U.S. Mission to ASEAN strategic goals related to women's roles in economic recovery, DEIA principles in the ASEAN economic community, and strengthening women's contributions to peace and security across the region. The food security framing is intentionally broad to reflect how complex and interconnected the issue is. The opportunity encourages recruiting participants from many relevant fields, including biotechnology, agribusiness, trade and economics, water and soil or broader resource management, and public health areas such as nutrition, malnutrition, and food safety. The rationale is that recent disruptions like global grain shortages show how quickly food systems can be stressed, and resilience depends on coordinated action across sectors rather than a single-discipline solution.
Programmatically, the grantee must develop a blended model that includes both virtual and in-person components. The centerpiece is a four-day, in-person workshop for women participants, supported by structured virtual sessions that begin at least three months before the workshop and continue afterward. The in-person workshop is expected to include expert-led learning and exposure activities such as panels and discussions with U.S. and Southeast Asian experts in agriculture, public health, and trade policy, plus networking and mentoring sessions and professional development content. The program also calls for practical leadership skill-building elements like strengths assessments and elevator pitch practice or public speaking training, along with structured opportunities to build professional connections across the region and with the United States. A site visit to an agricultural site or relevant organization and a cultural activity are also expected, reinforcing applied learning and regional relationship-building.
Substantively, the curriculum is expected to connect individual leadership development to regional frameworks and cooperation. Sessions should cover ASEAN fundamentals, the value of regional collaboration to address food security, and how tools like biotechnology can contribute to solutions, alongside an overview of the U.S.-ASEAN Strategic Partnership and how the U.S. and ASEAN can work together on food security. The design should also push participants into collaborative work, including facilitated teamwork to identify key food security issues affecting the region and to think across borders rather than only within national contexts. Leadership, giving back, and cultivating a shared Southeast Asian or ASEAN identity rooted in shared values and shared challenges are meant to be integrated throughout the experience, not treated as add-ons.
A distinctive requirement in this funding announcement is the emphasis on alumni engagement, because 2024 marks the 10th Women’s Leadership Academy and coincides with the 10th anniversary of YSEALI. The selected implementer is expected to build creative anniversary elements into the program and actively incorporate contributions from the existing Women’s Leadership Academy alumnae network, which is part of the broader YSEALI Alumni Network and includes more than 250 alumnae with an established board and structure. Beyond involving alumnae during the Academy itself, the implementer must also plan a post-Academy alumnae activity for all YSEALI WLA alumnae, coordinating with the alumnae network team. This follow-on engagement is not optional window dressing; it needs to be built into the monitoring and evaluation plan to show sustained impact and continued network strengthening beyond the workshop dates.
From an implementation and compliance standpoint, the opportunity spells out several concrete deliverables and constraints. The implementer must run pre- and post-workshop surveys to measure program effectiveness and changes in participant knowledge related to the topic. Speakers, facilitators, and mentors must be citizens of the United States, an ASEAN member state, or Timor-Leste. The implementer is responsible for producing syllabus materials and an event program that includes participant and speaker biographies, and for creating physical branding materials like banners and backdrops. A digital engagement strategy is also required, including social media and potentially live video or live online engagement during the program. At the same time, the program prohibits launching a new event-specific website; domain, hosting, and website build costs will not be covered.
Coordination with ASEAN institutions is also built in. The in-person workshop should include participation by an ASEAN Secretariat representative, and the budget is expected to reserve funds to enable that participation if the Secretariat representative is available. This requirement underscores that the Academy is not just a training event but also a platform for connecting emerging women leaders to regional governance and cooperation structures, reinforcing the broader goal of strengthening ASEAN-centered collaboration alongside U.S.-ASEAN partnership efforts.
In terms of funding mechanics and headline details, this is a discretionary grant competition using a cooperative agreement, meaning the U.S. government expects to remain more substantially involved in shaping and overseeing the project than under a standard grant. The funding opportunity number is PAS USASEAN FY23 02 under CFDA 19.040. The agency plans to make one award with an award ceiling of $250,000. The priority region includes all ASEAN member states (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) plus Timor-Leste, and the program is designed to bring representatives from across all of these places into one cohort. The notice was created June 9, 2023, with an original closing date of July 21, 2023.Apply for PAS USASEAN FY23 02
- The Department of State, U.S. Mission to ASEAN in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "2024 U.S.-ASEAN Women’s Leadership Academy for YSEALI" 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 Jun 09, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 21, 2023. (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 $250,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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