Are there any minimum requirements that must be met before a proposal is considered qualified for Program funding?
Definitely. There are, in fact, two things that every private sector proposal must contain before it can qualify for funding under the Program: 1. Cost-share. This the amount of funding U.S. private organizations are willing to commit from their own resources along with those of the Program to seek export business in an emerging market. No proposal will be considered without the element of cost-sharing, regardless of the underlying value of a proposal (the Emerging Markets Program complements, not supplants, export efforts of the U.S. private sector). We dont specify a minimum or maximum of cost share. Rather, we use the degree of commitment to a proposed project represented by the percentage and type of private funding as a critical factor in determining which proposals should be funded under the Program. We also dont specify the type of cost-sharing. It may be professional time of staff assigned to the project, or actual cash investment. But proposals in which private industry is wil
