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NPI EXPAND Fixed Amount Awards Lessons Learned

The USAID-funded New Partnerships Initiative EXPAND: New Partners for Better Health (NPI EXPAND) activity implemented by Palladium LLC issued 185 fixed amount awards (FAAs) and fixed amount renewable subawards to 92 local organizations in 11 countries. This document provides a summary of the project’s lessons learned regarding the use of FAAs compared with cost reimbursable awards, including what worked well and what could have been better according to grantee feedback.