Issue 6 | Volume 11 | February 9, 2023
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International Funding Opportunities Update
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Upcoming events of the
Community of Practice on Global Development
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Equitable Partnerships in Global Development
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
8:30am-10:00am
Michigan State University faculty and professional staff will discuss their experience in promoting equitable partnerships in global research and development.
Presenters will include:
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Dr. Jose Jackson-Malete, Co-Director of the Alliance for African Partnership
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Dr. Laurie Medina, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology; Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Dr. Leo Zulu, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences
This event is being co-hosted by Global IDEAS, the Alliance for African Partnership,
the Tanzania Partnership Program (TPP) and African Studies Center.
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Listed below are international funding opportunities identified in the past week. All other open opportunities may be accessed in a searchable database by clicking on the button to the right.
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Global IDEAS hosts the International Data Portal where you can learn about MSU's international presence. There is information about past international awards, educational programming, and MSU's international student body.
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The World Food Prize is awarded for a specific, exceptionally significant, individual achievement that advances human development with a demonstrable increase in the quantity, quality, availability of, or access to food through creative interventions at any point within the full scope of the food system.
Fields of achievement include, but are not limited to:
- soil and land;
- plant and animal science;
- food science and technology;
- nutrition;
- rural development;
- marketing;
- food processing,
- packaging and storage;
- water and the environment;
- natural resource conservation;
- physical infrastructure;
- transportation and distribution;
- special or extraordinary feeding programs;
- social organization and poverty elimination;
- economics and finance;
- policy analysis and implementation; and
- public advocacy.
This exceptionally significant achievement must be shown to have resulted in a demonstrable increase in the quantity, quality, availability of, or access to food for a large number of people.
The impact of this achievement must be measurable, quantifiable, or otherwise demonstrated either in terms of reduced poverty, hunger, or suffering; or enhanced health, nutrition, quality of life and well-being. It must be clearly shown that this increase in food security was the direct result of the specific actions and activities of the nominee; i.e., without his or her specific accomplishment, no change would have occurred.
A nominee must be living and in sufficiently good health to attend the World Food Prize Award Ceremony. The nominee must be able to give an acceptance speech and agree to participate in selected media events and the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute at the time of the Award Ceremony.
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Award size: $250,000
Deadline: May 1, 2023
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Climate, Water, Environment, & Energy
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DRL seeks to support a program that increases transparency and accountability around infrastructure development and its potential impact on marginalized groups and promotes more responsible, human rights protective, climate-focused, and community-driven investment through quality in-depth environmental reporting in Southeast Asia.
The program should be designed to achieve the following objectives:
- Journalists more effectively fulfill their watchdog roles and call attention to environmental degradation and human rights abuses caused by infrastructure development.
- Quality in-depth reporting increases broader public awareness and engagement on infrastructure development debates and advocacy, including among marginalized groups disproportionately impacted by such development.
- Multi-stakeholder engagement on quality investigative reporting leads to government action to promote accountability and rights-respecting investment.
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Award size: $740,625 up to $1,481,250
Deadline: April 3, 2023
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The J.M.K. Innovation Prize seeks to identify, support, and elevate innovators who are spearheading transformative early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice.
In a time of increasingly convergent social and environmental challenges, our need for ambitious new ideas could not be clearer. We know that transforming the future of our climate and society will require new voices and models for change-making. We also know that leaders of budding movements and solutions are hard at work in the gaps between and beyond the reach of traditional funding streams. Time and again, through hardship and against systemic forces, we’ve seen innovators defy conventions and reach across established disciplines to forge new paths to social impact. We created the J.M.K. Innovation Prize to support and elevate them.
Since 2015, over four biennial cycles, we’ve called on change-makers across the country to submit projects with transformative potential. To date, we’ve supported 40 wildly creative social and environmental initiatives, ranging from Catholic sisters engaged in land reparations to rural entrepreneurs converting mining runoff into pigments for high-quality paints.
The Fund’s three program areas:
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The Environment: Slowing the pace of climate change and mitigating climate impacts.
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Heritage Conservation: Conserving the places that communities care about most.
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Social Justice: Strengthening democracy and reforming the criminal justice and immigration systems.
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Award size: up to $150,000 over 3 years
Deadline: April 28, 2023
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This solicitation launches an ambitious new program to fund international, interdisciplinary collaborative research centers that will apply best practices of broadening participation and community engagement to develop use-inspired research on climate change and clean energy. This program will prioritize research collaborations fostering team science, community-engaged research, and use knowledge-to-action frameworks. The proposed research work should maximize the benefits of international, interdisciplinary collaborations.
The main objectives of a Center must focus on any combination of research disciplines supported by NSF. However, if some of the stakeholders’ expertise fall out of that scope, justification must be provided as to how their expertise is required to advance the main research focus of the Centers.
Centers are expected to be driven by a bold vision for high-impact, use-inspired, basic research along with a strategy to integrate diverse perspectives from different stakeholder groups into the research endeavor, including perspectives from beyond the academic sector. It is expected that this effort will enhance societal benefits and expand international partnerships while building a diverse scientific and stakeholder community able to potentially carry out the work beyond the Center funding period.
Centers are expected to create and promote opportunities for students and early career researchers to gain education and training in world class research while enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Centers are expected to undertake sustainable activities that advance knowledge, empower resilient communities, and generate discovery of innovative solutions at a regional and/or global scale.
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Award size: $250,000 up to $5M
Deadline: May 10, 2023
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Through this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Section for Arctic Sciences (ARC) of the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) announces plans to support workshops to identify key science drivers as well as critical infrastructure and technology needs to strengthen the NSF Arctic Observing Network (AON) Program. Such workshops are typically identified as conferences in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) and will hereafter be referred to as conferences.
The Nation's ability to detect and understand atmospheric, marine, societal, and terrestrial changes, and their implications for the rest of the planet, is limited by data gaps and insufficient observations across the Arctic. Hence, a high-level, strategic planning initiative needs to be mounted to assist NSF’s AON Program in identifying and prioritizing the key components for maintaining and strengthening a sustainable Arctic observing network. This planning also needs to include strategies to "hand off" mature data streams to willing partners and to introduce new and better technologies into the observing network in such a way that the value of existing data is not compromised and so that new data can be collected more efficiently and at a lower cost.
This DCL strongly encourages proposals for conferences that may include multiple goals including but not limited to:
- Identifying key science drivers and priorities for the next 10 years of NSF’s AON Program;
- Providing an opportunity for understanding the current NSF AON Program portfolio, including its disciplinary breadth and geographic focus, as well as its strengths and weaknesses;
- Identifying the infrastructural, logistical, and technology needs for Arctic observing; and describing notional deployment strategies (including for aircraft, vessels, and other platforms);
- Developing an outline or plan for improving existing AON data management systems;
- Forging a path for strengthening future international collaboration and coordination for Arctic modeling and observational syntheses; and
- Developing criteria for sunsetting or transferring AON projects that have shifted their focus to long-term monitoring efforts and are no longer driven by emerging science objectives.
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Award size: varies with proposal
Deadline: see website
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The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for a project that strengthens independent media and expands space for freedom of expression and the public’s right to information in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankans are facing the most severe economic downturn since independence in 1948. In March 2022, protesters representing a diverse coalition of Sri Lankan society united to push the country towards a better future devoid of corruption and regressive politics. These protests were driven by skyrocketing inflation, rampant government corruption, and widespread shortages of fuel, food, and medicine. The government continues to crackdown on protests using various security laws and targeting journalists for reporting on the continuing crisis.
The media plays a key role in ensuring that Sri Lankans stay informed on what is happening in the country, hold government authorities accountable through reporting, and empower the public to use data and the right to information to advocate for enhancing and maintaining transparency and government accountability. DRL’s goal is that journalists, media outlets, together with civil society actors in Sri Lanka sustainably counter oppressive laws and other challenges so they can conduct fact-based reporting to better inform citizens and to hold power-holders accountable.
Illustrative desired outcomes for this program include:
- Journalists, independent media, activists, and civil society actors in Sri Lanka adopt new security approaches to ensure their own safety and continue providing reliable information that counters mis- and dis-information.
- Citizens in Sri Lanka gain access to information that allows them to develop informed opinions on issues that affect their lives and use that information to advocate for accountability and transparency.
- Dialogues and joint actions among media, civil society, local communities, and other relevant stakeholders to strengthen community oversight and accountability of government legislative and policy actions.
- Media and civil society are able to foster public demand for transparency and government accountability and engage citizens regarding its impact.
- Media and civil society advocate for proactive disclosure by public institutions.
- Advocacy by media and civil society groups on strengthening the implementation and use of the right to information law.
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Award size: $750,000
Deadline: April 10, 2023
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The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for a project that enhances civil society and strengthens individual freedoms in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka continues to face a worsening economic and political environment. As the country moves forward under President Ranil Wickremesinghe, after the resignation of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa due to mass protests, issues with freedoms of association, expression, and assembly, including shrinking of civic space and harassment of civil society has continued. Concerns related to these specific issues in Sri Lanka are described in the State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
DRL’s goal is to support civil society to address challenges and opportunities arising from the political transition in Sri Lanka by advancing respect and protection of human and political rights. The objectives of this program are: civil society engages with the public and government to build support for policies and approaches that protect human rights, reduce corruption, and ensure fundamental freedoms; civil society advocates for democratic principles and practices, including the freedom of movement and expression of civil society and citizens without harassment; and civil society organizations and activists adopt iterative practices to operate safely and securely.
Possible program outcomes include:
- civil society participates in dialogue processes;
- civil society advocates to government actors regarding transparent, democratic practices;
- civil society advocates for protections of citizens, civil society, and media to operate freely and without harassment; and
- the Government of Sri Lanka engages with stakeholders, citizens, and media to ensure a more accountable, transparent, and responsive government.
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Award size: $750,000
Deadline: April 13, 2023
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NEA/PPD and SRP PD invite proposals for programs that strengthen people-to-people ties between the United States and non-regime held areas of Syria through educational, cultural, media, and informational programming that support U.S. policy goals and objectives for Syria. All programs must be designed to increase understanding of the United States and/or increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and Syria.
NEA/PPD and SRP PD seek proposals that use public diplomacy to address the following priority program areas:
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Youth community engagement: Strong civic engagement is an essential component in fostering social cohesion, an engaged citizenry, democratic norms and values, and rendering societies more resistant to malign influence. Projects in this category could, for example, engage a community or communities in a shared endeavor via sports, the fine or performing arts, etc.
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Peacebuilding and reconciliation: Projects in this category seek to promote inter-ethnic, inter-religious, inter-linguistic dialogue and/or tailored non-violent conflict mitigation strategies within at-risk and/or marginalized communities,
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Education: Syrian children and youth continue to face substantial deficits in their access to education. Programs should be designed to address these deficits and/or offer educational activities not currently available. Illustrative examples include programs in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM); helping educators increase their capacity for effective curricular delivery; sports, recreational, and/or extra-curricular program for girls in particular; or programs to link young adults with rudimentary education with employment or vocational opportunities.
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Media and Journalism: Projects that support strengthening of the media sector and/or enhancing journalists’ skills to bolster the critical role of a free press, as well as programs that provide direct access to authoritative U.S. information sources to promote depth, accuracy, and balance in reporting and to deepen understanding of U.S. policy and values. Projects in this category should also help in combatting disinformation and support practitioners operating in conflict or semi-democratic zones. [Note: Proposals in this category should account for and be complementary to the work carried out under the Support for Independent Media in Syria (SIMS) program.]
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Inclusive Economic Growth and Socio-Economic Development: Projects in this category would focus on sharing U.S. expertise and practices for starting and/or growing a small business enterprise.
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Countering Violent Extremism (CVE): U.S. engagement aims to reduce the ability of terrorist groups, their affiliates, and adherents to radicalize to violence, recruit, and mobilize individuals and communities to terrorism. CVE attempts to break the life cycle of terrorist radicalization to violence, recruitment, and mobilization by pursuing a comprehensive, rule of law-based, and human rights-based approach involving local authorities, religious leaders, civil society, educators, women, youth, civil society, the private sector, and affected communities
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Award size: $150,000 up to $500,000
Deadline: April 21, 2023
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The U.S. Embassy Niamey Public Diplomacy Section (Niger) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program.
All public diplomacy Small Grants Programs must include one or more of the below themes:
- Countering Violent Extremism (Counterterrorism)
- Muslim Engagement (including inter- and intra-religious dialogue)
- Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment
- Youth Engagement and Education (particularly English-language education)
- Economic development (entrepreneurship, economic empowerment)
- Development of the media ecosystem (including countering mis- and disinformation)
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Award size: $250 up to $25,000
Deadline: June 1, 2023
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The U.S. Embassy Beirut, Lebanon’s Public Diplomacy Section (PDS Beirut) is pleased to invite proposals for its Public Diplomacy Grants Program.
PDS Beirut seeks proposals that address the following priority program themes:
- Inclusive/creative approaches to civic engagement, good governance, free speech/expression, and/or advancing human rights.
- English Language learning and programming.
- Educational partnerships between Lebanese and American academic institutions.
- Arts and culture programming.
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Award size: $25,000 up to $450,000
Deadline: June 20, 2023
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PAS Saudi Arabia invites proposals for programs that strengthen cultural, educational, or people-to-people ties between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia through cultural and exchange programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation.
Priority Program Areas:
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Culture and the Creative Economy: Projects that support Saudi Arabia’s cultural programming priorities by engaging American performers, artists, creatives and other figures to perform in venues in Saudi Arabia, including via joint performances or exhibitions; or exchange programs that use U.S. experts, professionals, or speakers to help develop the emerging voices in the creative economy sector in Saudi Arabia and support emerging Saudi talent in the creative fields, such as media, comedy, film/television, music, sound engineering, the visual arts, sports entertainment and management, and e-gaming.
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Education and English Language: Programs that increase access for Saudi students to seek U.S. higher education; promote linkages between U.S. and Saudi universities; offer exchanges or best practices in English teaching and learning; or advance U.S.-Saudi linkages in STEAM fields, to include space or robotics programming.
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Skills Building among Target Audiences: Programs that support entrepreneurship skills, particularly among youth and women, including by creating linkages with U.S. entrepreneurs and/or investors; programs that leverage sports to develop leadership, teamwork, and rules-based values; or other programs that foster the development of skills critical to economic and social advancement among Saudi youth, women, or underserved groups (including the disabled and people living outside major cities).
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Environmental Protection: Programs that promote the green economy, raise awareness of the environmental impacts of carbon emissions or littering, promote clean energy, encourage good stewardship of the land and sea, or emphasize partnerships on other environmental issues of concern; or programs that leverage the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference and support Saudi initiatives to promote environmental awareness among Saudi youth.
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Cultural Heritage: Programs that promote sustainable economic opportunities in Saudi Arabia through the protection of antiquities, exchanges that promote the protection and promotion of Saudi cultural heritage, or the development of sustainable tourism through the creation of partnerships with U.S. private, public and non-governmental heritage protection and management sectors.
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Award size: $5,000 up to $125,000
Deadline: July 15, 2023
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The Public Diplomacy (PD) Section of the U.S. Mission to Burundi is pleased to announce an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program or project with funding through the Public Diplomacy Grants Program. This is an Annual Program Statement, outlining our funding priorities, the strategic themes we focus on, and the procedures for submitting requests for funding.
Purpose of Grants:
PD Bujumbura invites proposals for programs that strengthen ties between the United States and Burundi through cultural and exchange programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation. All programs must include a U.S. element, priority, or goal, or a connection with U.S. expert(s), organization(s), or institution(s), in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives. Applicants are strongly encouraged to partner with English Clubs, American Spaces, or U.S. exchange program alumni to conduct activities.
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Award size: up to $20,000
Deadline: rolling deadlines until July 15, 2023
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The U.S. Embassy Bangkok Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce an open competition for organizations and individuals to submit applications to carry out programs that strengthen cultural, economic, and public health partnerships between the United States and Thailand, and promote democratic values, rule of law, human rights, and environment protection through cultural and exchange programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation. All programs must include an American cultural element, or connection with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s in a specific field in order to foster U.S.-Thai mutual understanding.
Priority Program Areas
- Environment and Global Health
- Activities that increase awareness of environment protection, climate change, transboundary water challenges, and other key regional issues.
- Activities that promote U.S.-Thai health partnership and strengthen global health security through educational and outreach activities
- Economic Partnership
- Activities that support U.S.-Thai partnership in areas of entrepreneurship, anti-corruption, transparent business practices, and corporate social responsibility.
- Activities that build digital skills and improve business practices of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and women entrepreneurs for different stages of their businesses’ development
- Activities that provide opportunities to Thai students with increased access to and understanding of U.S. technology and innovation.
- Innovative and educational projects that strengthen sustainable development in the Mekong sub-region
- Rule of Law, Democratic Values, and Human Rights
- Activities that strengthen democratic values, accountability, public participation, transparency, and rule of law in governing and political institutions.
- Innovative projects that educate Thais about U.S. experience in participatory democracy, dialogue, transparency, and accountability.
- Activities that promote universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms.
- Activities that promote connection between the United States and the rising leaders in the Indo-Pacific region.
- Special Areas of Interest
- Activities that promote U.S.-Thai partnership and build two-way exchanges between the U.S. and Thai public.
- Activities to promote the sharing of U.S. culture and values with Thai populations through educational opportunities, arts and culture, interactive learning, film, and arts and culture.
- Projects for Thai youth that focus on enhancing critical thinking skills and promoting civic engagement to counter disinformation and improve media/digital literacy.
- Programs that provide Thai students with increased access to education and understanding of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEM/STEAM) to promote economic growth.
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Award size: $5,000 up to $25,000
Deadline: July 31, 2023
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Migration & Human Trafficking
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The Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) is pleased to invite organizations to submit proposals to combat human trafficking outside of the United States. Informed by the annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report) and current anti-trafficking programming and trends, and in consultation with other U.S. government agencies and offices, the TIP Office has identified two programming priorities for funding under this announcement.
The TIP Office will allocate funding for anti-trafficking projects through an open, competitive process. Applicants are invited to submit full proposals for projects designed to address the TIP Office’s 2023 programming priorities in Europe, Eurasia, and Nigeria.
The TIP Office welcomes strong proposals that address human trafficking challenges on a significant scale, offer the potential to have a systemic and sustainable impact, align with U.S. government priorities and the TIP Office’s 2023 country and regional priorities listed under the 2023 Select Regional Programming Priorities, among other factors. Strong applications will demonstrate a clear understanding of the program design standards found in the 2023 Guidelines for Submitting TIP Office Project Proposals for Select Regions which are included alongside this NOFO in the full announcement package
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Award size: $250,000 up to $2M
Deadline: March 6, 2023
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Under this NOFO, ISN/ECC seeks proposals to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities by supporting initiatives that make decision-making structures and processes in fragile, conflict, or crisis-affected contexts more reflective of and responsive to the needs and perspectives of partner states to ensure strategic trade control systems meet international standards and by engaging on bilateral, regional and multilateral levels with foreign governments to aid in the establishment of independent capabilities to regulate transfers of weapons of mass destruction, WMD-related items, conventional arms, and related dual-use items, and to detect, interdict, investigate, and prosecute illicit transfers of such items.
Program Objectives: ISN Goals
- Prevent and Respond to Proliferation of WMD, Missiles, and Destabilizing Conventional Weapons and Technologies
EXBS Objectives – Customs Enforcement
- Improve partner inter-agency coordination and information sharing
- Improve partner enforcement response capability
- Improve partner cargo targeting capacity
- Improve partner passenger screening capacity
- Improve partner capacity to protect commercial transportation conveyances
- Develop self-sufficient training program for border security personnel
- Improve capacity of border security personnel at ports of entry through equipment and infrastructure upgrades
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Award size: $987,654
Deadline: March 4, 2023
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The purpose of this award is to support EXBS implementation of the U.S. Plan to Counter Illicit Diversion of Certain Advanced Conventional Weapons in Eastern Europe. Specifically, its goal of: Building the capacity of security forces, law enforcement officials, and border control agencies in Ukraine and its neighboring states to deter, detect, and interdict illicit trafficking of certain advanced conventional weapons.
Under this NOFO, ISN/ECC seeks proposals to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities by supporting initiatives that make decision-making structures and processes in fragile, conflict, or crisis-affected contexts more reflective of and responsive to the needs and perspectives of partner states to ensure strategic trade control systems meet international standards and by engaging on bilateral, regional and multilateral levels with foreign governments to aid in the establishment of independent capabilities to regulate transfers of weapons of mass destruction, WMD-related items, conventional arms, and related dual-use items, and to detect, interdict, investigate, and prosecute illicit transfers of such items.
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Award size: $3,950,617
Deadline: March 4, 2023
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The purpose of this NOFO is to provide legal-regulatory technical assistance, advice, and outreach to EXBS partners in the Western Hemisphere (WHA) and the Caribbean, including, but not limited to, Chile, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago to develop and implement comprehensive export controls to effectively regulate trade and transfers of military and dual-use goods and technologies, and prevent illicit cross-border trafficking of items and equipment that may be used for the proliferation of WMD and advanced conventional weapons.
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Award size: $2,172,840
Deadline: March 4, 2023
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Under this NOFO, ISN/ECC seeks proposals to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities in Kenya by supporting initiatives that make decision-making structures and processes in fragile, conflict, or crisis-affected contexts more reflective of and responsive to the needs and perspectives of partner states to ensure strategic trade control systems meet international standards and by engaging on bilateral, regional and multilateral levels with foreign governments to aid in the establishment of independent capabilities to regulate transfers of weapons of mass destruction, WMD-related items, conventional arms, and related dual-use items, and to detect, interdict, investigate, and prosecute illicit transfers of such items.
It is ISN/ECC’s expectation that at the conclusion of the cooperative agreement, the following outcomes will have been accomplished:
- Personnel of the Border Patrol Unit (BPU) in Kenya's Ministry of Interior will have improved domain awareness.
- Kenya will have enhanced understanding of how tethered drone technology can be used in various operating environments to detect illicit cross-border activities.
- Kenya will have enhanced awareness on how to integrate persistent surveillance capability into the Kenya Drone Program, an existing partnership sponsored by the US Anti-Terrorism Assistance program (ATA).
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Award size: $395,062
Deadline: March 4, 2023
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The purpose of this award is to provide coordinated logistics services, to include selection of subject matter experts (SMEs), to support EXBS programming in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, hereafter referred to as the Balkans.
The hallmark of EXBS in the Balkans is the affordability of utilizing, in most cases, no-cost regional trainers, coupled with EXBS all-inclusive logistics support, to build and strengthen partner capacity in three key pillars - strategic trade control management, customs enforcement, and border security operations. We implement most programs in the region via this model, which relies on implementer(s) logistics services to organize and execute engagements as delivered by these no-cost instructors or by other SMEs, where required.
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Award size: $1,235,251
Deadline: March 4, 2023
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Under this NOFO, ISN/ECC seeks proposals to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities in the Baltic States by supporting initiatives that make decision-making structures and processes in fragile, conflict, or crisis-affected contexts more reflective of and responsive to the needs and perspectives of partner states to ensure strategic trade control systems meet international standards and by engaging on bilateral, regional and multilateral levels with foreign governments to aid in the establishment of independent capabilities to regulate transfers of weapons of mass destruction, WMD-related items, conventional arms, and related dual-use items, and to detect, interdict, investigate, and prosecute illicit transfers of such items.
The purpose of this award is to support partner capacity to effectively counter Russian malign influence in port of entry data security by:
- Building capacity for customs agencies to more efficiently screen and identify illicit trade through risk analysis, targeting, and reporting.
- Providing tailored tools, information, and targeted training to advance capabilities to execute more complex analysis to trace sanctions evasion efforts and violations.
- Developing analytical capabilities to analyze trade data as part of customs and revenue services’ risk management and targeting processes
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Award size: $234,074
Deadline: March 4, 2023
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Under this NOFO, ISN/ECC seeks proposals to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities by supporting initiatives that make decision-making structures and processes in fragile, conflict, or crisis-affected contexts more reflective of and responsive to the needs and perspectives of partner states to ensure strategic trade control systems meet international standards and by engaging on bilateral, regional and multilateral levels with foreign governments to aid in the establishment of independent capabilities to regulate transfers of weapons of mass destruction, WMD-related items, conventional arms, and related dual-use items, and to detect, interdict, investigate, and prosecute illicit transfers of such items.
ISN/ECC proposes one line of effort under this grant: An Annual North African Border Management Academy
Calls to strengthen border security frequently focus on a limited set of components including infrastructure, equipment, and personnel that reside primarily in customs and law enforcement agencies. These components and agencies are central to any border system, but they are most effective when integrated into a broader plan that approaches border security as a unified effort encompassing a wide range of government agencies.
Beginning in 2022, ISN/ECC began hosting an annual N. African Border Security Management Academy. This Academy employs a broader conception of border security by introducing contingencies that often complicate and diminish the effectiveness of routine border control procedures such as migration flows, refugee crises, terrorism, disease, illicit trade, and human trafficking. Scenarios integrating these contingencies challenge participants to look beyond the components of the border control system and draw attention to how numerous agencies contribute to sustainable, resilient, and secure borders and enhance the enforcement of strategic trade controls.
ISN/ECC proposes that Grantees will:
- Host an in-person, two-week Border Security Management Academy once a year, for two years, preferably near/along the U.S./Mexico border. Depending on the availability of funds, ECC may choose to fund only one, singular iteration of the Academy, which would result in an abbreviated PoP.
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Invite up to five participants, per country, from each of the five listed countries: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia.
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Award size: $888,889
Deadline: March 4, 2023
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The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait announces an open competition for organizations or individuals to submit a statement of interest (SOI) to carry out a program (or programs) to the Public Affairs section at the U.S. Embassy Kuwait.
The submission of the SOI is the first step in a two-step process. Applicants must first submit a concise (1-2 pages) statement of interest designed to clearly communicate the program idea and its objectives. This is not a full proposal. The purpose of the SOI process is to allow applicants to submit program ideas for evaluation prior to requiring the development of a full proposal application. Upon a merit review of eligible SOIs, selected applicants will be invited to expand on their program idea(s) by submitting a full proposal application. Full proposals will go through a second merit review before final funding decision are made.
Grant proposals must seek to achieve one or more of the following goals:
- Prepare and encourage students in Kuwait to attend U.S. universities, whether through English or college readiness training, college advising, or other means;
- Increase local capacity to counter discrimination, harassment, and abuse against women;
- Strengthen efforts to raise awareness of and combat trafficking in persons;
- Improve the ability of institutions in Kuwait to prepare for and respond to cybersecurity incidents;
- Promote people-to-people ties between the United States and Kuwait through educational, cultural, or civic activities that engage youth and young professionals in Kuwait; or
- Strengthen the ability of marginalized communities, youth, and women to participate fully in the political process and the economy.
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Award size: $1,000 up to $25,000
Deadline: April 1, 2023
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DRL seeks to support a program that advances women HRDs and civil society activists’ full, equal, effective, and meaningful participation and leadership in safeguarding and advancing democratic governance, transparency, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in the Southeast Asia and Pacific region. The program should seek to actively address gender norms, dynamics, and inequalities to achieve project outcomes.
The program should be designed to achieve the following objectives:
- Women activists and HRDs, in all their diversity, effectively and safely advance democratic governance and fundamental rights and freedoms locally, nationally, and/or regionally;
- Women activists and HRDs increase public demand for democratic governance, human rights, and fundamental freedoms, particularly of marginalized or underrepresented populations;
- Governments take concrete steps and actions to meaningfully incorporate principles of inclusivity and gender equity when advancing policies strengthening inclusive and representative governance, accountability, transparency, and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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Award size: $1.5M up to $3M
Deadline: April 3, 2023
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The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) invites civil society organizations (CSOs) to submit applications for projects that have the goal to promote and protect Freedom of Expression (FoE) for vulnerable or marginalized populations. The focus should include women and girls in all their diversity; LGBTQI+ persons, transgender or gender-diverse persons in particular; migrants; members of marginalized racial, ethnic, and Indigenous communities, religious minority group members; and others targeted by anti-rights actors.
These actors deploy targeted threats and instrumentalized stigma against such groups in order to chill freedom of speech and limit democratic participation, leading to the erosion of democratic institutions, rule of law, access to justice, and fundamental freedoms of expression, assembly, and association (e.g. creating and disseminating disinformation in order to pass legislation that is discriminatory in intent or impact; repeatedly targeting civil society organizations working for the human rights of vulnerable populations with strategic lawsuits against public participation, etc.).
This project must focus on one or more of the following objectives:
- Strengthening the capacity of civil society led by marginalized groups to address targeted attacks on Freedom of Expression from anti-rights, authoritarian-aligned actors, including so-called “anti-gender’ initiatives.
- Strengthening cross-movement strategy development, intersectional analysis, and coordinated response to anti-rights efforts and projects, enhancing both safety and the ability to engage in democratically-aligned activities.
- Developing and strengthening shared communications analysis, key messages, strategies, and campaigns to counter disinformation regarding vulnerable or marginalized communities that is designed to curtail Freedoms of Expression; to undermine respect for human rights, inclusive democratic institutions, and the rule of law; and/or to shrink space for civil society to advocate freely in support of human rights.
- Work with state and multilateral institutions and actors to promote best practice in preventing backsliding on Freedom of Expression and human rights for vulnerable and marginalized persons
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Award size: $750,000
Deadline: April 5, 2023
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This program would train airport screeners, supervisors, and managers to identify and interdict terrorist activity in line with international standards. It would also help to unify the Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG) institutions with responsibility for aviation security by promoting compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Standards, Recommended Practices (SARP)s, and their annexes. This project would ideally provide passenger and cargo screening systems and equipment if the environment permits.
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Award size: $3,950,617
Deadline: April 7, 2023
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The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that support the policy objective to advance the U.S. Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) by promoting gender equality and addressing gender-based, including sexual and domestic violence in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
DRL’s goals of this program are :
- that local organizations build their network and ability to respond to GBV;
- to ensure that women and girls in all their diversity, are safe from violence;
- which will enable them to advocate and organize on their own behalf, for equal rights, to remove barriers to services, to improve access to survivor-centered justice, and to safely participate in all aspects of public life.
The program should take an intersectional approach by accounting for the ways in which Indigenous women, women from socially excluded communities, LBTQI+ women, women with disabilities, low-income women, women in public-facing positions, women from racial and ethnic minority communities, and other intersections are further impacted the dynamic of gender-based violence.
Program objectives are:
- Women and girls from marginalized communities in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are knowledgeable about their rights and safely engage with community leaders and reporting mechanisms to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, harassment, and abuse; and
- Networks and capacity of local civil society organizations and collectives that represent and support vulnerable women can advocate together, exchange knowledge and promising practices with one another to better support survivors of GBV and the rights and safety of girls and women and
- Marginalized women from all communities, including women with disabilities, indigenous, Afro-Caribbean, rural, LBTQI+, returnees, and young women are engaged in accessing justice and do so.
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Award size: $2M
Deadline: April 12, 2023
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The Public Diplomacy (PD) section of the U.S. Embassy in Madagascar and Comoros, part of the U.S. Department of State, is pleased to announce its Public Diplomacy Annual Program Statement (APS). This Notice of Funding Opportunity outlines the Embassy’s funding priorities, strategic themes, and procedures for submitting requests for funding. Please carefully follow all instructions below.
The Public Diplomacy Annual Program Statement supports projects proposed by U.S., Malagasy, and/or Comorian educational, cultural, and other non-profit organizations or individuals that promote U.S. values, strengthen understanding between U.S. and Malagasy and/or Comorian people and institutions, and/or support U.S. Embassy goals of promoting human rights, transparency and good governance, economic and social prosperity, environmental stewardship, educational achievement, and sustainable development of natural resources. All programs must include a U.S. cultural element or a connection with U.S. experts, organizations, or institutions that will encourage increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives.
PD will entertain applications for continuation grants funded under these awards beyond the initial budget period on a non-competitive basis subject to availability of funds, satisfactory progress of the program, and a determination that continued funding would be in the best interest of the U.S. Department of State.
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Award size: $5,000 up to $100,000
Deadline: July 15, 2023
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The Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) of the U.S. Embassy in Finland, U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program. This is an Annual Program Statement, outlining our funding priorities, the strategic themes we focus on, and the procedures for submitting requests for funding.
PDS Finland invites proposals for programs that promote bilateral cooperation and highlight shared values. All programs must include an American perspective, societal or cultural element, or connection with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and viewpoints. Additionally, programs must include a public outreach component(s), such as livestreaming, masterclasses, traditional media, digital outreach, or events open to audiences.
Examples of PDS Small Grants Program programs include, but are not limited to:
- Academic and professional lectures, and seminars;
- Professional and academic exchanges and programs;
- Artistic and cultural workshops, joint performances, and exhibitions
Priority Program Areas:
- Proposals that relate to the Arctic and increasing cooperation between Arctic states and communities;
- Addressing climate change and changing environmental conditions;
- Proposals that advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility;
- Proposals that address global security challenges and increasing understanding of NATO, including programs in support of Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) initiatives;
- Proposals that increase collaboration and exchange between American and Finnish students and teachers;
- Proposals that promote economic prosperity, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
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Award size: $5,000 up to $50,000
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis until August 31, 2023
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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (German Research Foundation, DFG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration between U.S. and German research communities and sets out the principles by which jointly supported activities might be developed. The MOU provides for an international collaboration arrangement whereby U.S. researchers may receive funding from the NSF and German researchers may receive funding from DFG.
The goal of this U.S.-German collaborative research opportunity is to help reduce some of the current barriers to working internationally. Through a "lead agency model," NSF and DFG will address these issues by allowing a team of U.S. and German researchers to submit a single collaborative proposal that will undergo a single review process at the lead agency for that fiscal year, with NSF as the lead.
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Award size: varies with proposal
Deadline: Proposals may be submitted at any time
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Scholarships & Fellowships
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The Dr. Charles and Marjorie Gliozzo Dissertation Research Scholarship is available to MSU doctoral students with dissertation research objectives who have defended, or are in the process of defending, a dissertation proposal. The scholarship supports field research abroad in support of the student's dissertation.
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Award size: $1,000 or more
Deadline: March 1, 2023
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The APA-IUPsyS Global Mental Health Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for a psychologist to contribute to the work of World Health Organization (WHO) in the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MSD) for a period of one year.
The fellow will focus on one or more issues related to the WHO Mental Health Action Plan, which aims “to promote mental well-being, prevent mental disorders, provide care, enhance recovery, promote human rights and reduce the mortality, morbidity and disability for persons with mental disorders.”
The fellowship intends to benefit both WHO and the participating fellow, who will gain exposure to WHO policies, programs, and interventions. Accordingly, the fellowship will provide psychologists with exposure to and involvement with international global mental health policy and implementation; and contribute to the more effective use of psychological knowledge and research pertinent to global mental health policy and implementation
In this context, the focus of the fellow’s activities will be on supporting research and program activities that address one or more of the WHO MSD program priorities, such as:
- Mental Health Gap Action Programme tools and their implementation
- scalable psychological interventions
- psychosocial responses to conflict and other emergencies
- e-mental health
- public health response to dementia
- early childhood development
- maternal mental health
- suicide prevention
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Award size: $22,000 stipend
Deadline: April 14, 2023
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The Einstein Forum and the Daimler and Benz Foundation are offering a fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, are also open to other, interdisciplinary approaches – following the example set by Albert Einstein. Candidates must be under 35 and hold a university degree in the humanities, in the social sciences, or in the natural sciences.
At the end of the fellowship period, the fellow will be expected to present his or her project in a public lecture at the Einstein Forum and at the Daimler and Benz Foundation. The Einstein Fellowship is not intended for applicants who wish to complete an academic study they have already begun.
The fellowship includes living accommodations for five to six months in the garden cottage of Einstein`s own summerhouse in Caputh, Brandenburg, only a short distance away from the universities and academic institutions of Potsdam and Berlin, Germany.
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Award size: $10,700
Deadline: May 15, 2023
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Global Innovations in Development, Engagement, and Scholarship (Global IDEAS) catalyzes interdisciplinary thought, research, and action to solve global/grand challenges in an international development context. We facilitate communities of practice; collaborate and engage with external partners and donors; enhance opportunities for faculty and staff to conduct research, education, and engagement; and provide proposal development and project management to support MSU’s international objectives.
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1405 S. Harrison Rd. Manly Miles Bldg., Suite 308
East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: (517) 884-2987
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