MCC is issuing this APS in order to develop partnerships with organizations that share compact and threshold program and MCC institutional goals and align with the needs of MCCs current portfolio. MCC partnerships take many forms and benefit both MCC and our partner organizations by increasing our respective access to cutting-edge research, knowledge, data, technologies, networks and expertise, as well as co-funding. Partnerships can help open new markets, scale programs, drive innovation, and transform the lives of people around the world. Successful partnerships are expected to involve collaboration between MCC and partner staff and support MCCs ability to achieve its mission and programmatic goals. Partnerships must concentrate on priority development activities which fall within MCCs mission of poverty reduction through economic growth and align with its core principles of results, good policies, and accountability. MCC funds activities in the public sector where the government role is clear and preeminent, but through partnership hopes to draw more broadly on non-governmental partners to stimulate additional investment and innovative development practices. MCC is seeking concept papers for the following partnership opportunities: 1. Empowering African Women through Data Skills Due Date: Closed 2. Environmental Economics Partnership Due Date: Closed 3. Womens Entrepreneurship Partnerships Due Date: Closed 4. Collaborative for Data Science in Africa Due Date: Closed 5. Geospatial and Earth-Observation Analyses for Africa Due Date: Closed 6. Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modeling Partnership Due Date: Closed 7. Fiscal Analysis Partnership Due Date: Closed 8. Community Engagement to Achieve Social License Agreements with Tourism Investors in the Solomon Islands Closed 9. Increasing Access to Rural Infrastructure Closed 10. Womens Data Lab and Network (WDLN) project in Cte dIvoire Closed 11. Partnership on Integrated Environmental-Economic Modeling Closed 12. Shared Learning Agenda and Multistakeholder Collaboration in the Areas of Financial Inclusion for MSMEs and Transportation Infrastructure in Indonesia Closed 13. Nature-based Solutions Manual of Practice Partnership Closed 14. Tanzania Trade Facilitation Partnership Due Date: Closed 15. Urbanization and Growth Constraints Partnership Due Date: February 19, 2025 at 12:00pm ET Additional partnership opportunities may be added over the course of the APS announcement period and partnership opportunities will be closed and removed as MCCs partnering interests are met. The APS uses a four-stage, competitive application process for partnership formation that fits within the parameters of USG assistance awards: Stage I: Concept Stage II: Co-Creation Stage III: Application Stage IV: Award