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72062424APS00001
Robert Ago-Josiah A and A Specialist
Opening date 9 Aug 2024, 12:00AM
Closing date 31 Jan 2025, 12:00AM
Funding Opportunity Number: 72062424APS00001
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Category Explanation: Peace and Governance
Expected Number of Awards: 5
CFDA Number(s): 98.001 -- USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No
Posted Date: Aug 09, 2024 12:00:00 AM EDT
Closing Date: Jan 31, 2025 12:00:00 AM EST
Closing Date Details: Due date for Concept Paper: August 30, 2024, at 17:00 Ghana Local TimeClosing date for Full Application: 21 days after receiving Request for Full Application at 17:00 Ghana Local time
Estimated Total Program Funding: 9989000
Award Ceiling: $9989000
Award Floor: $9989000
Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Eligibility for this NOFO is restricted to local organizations in Africa. This APS is issued worldwide as a public notice to ensure that all interested and qualified organizations have a fair opportunity to submit applications for funding. Eligible organizations include:• Registered African private non-governmental organizations with experience in West Africa or Cameroon,• Registered African non-profit organizations with experience in West Africa or Cameroon, and• For-profit African organizations with experience in West Africa or Cameroon willing to forego profit.
Agency Name: Robert Ago-Josiah A and A Specialist
Description:
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s West Africa Regional Peace and Governance Office (RPGO) seeks to award funding to prevent, mitigate, and/or respond to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and/or trafficking in persons (TIP) in West Africa and Cameroon under an Annual Program Statement (APS). USAID intends to have one (1) selection round over the course of one (1) year, but may choose to have a second round if necessary. The APS is intended to help USAID partner with African organizations with experience working in West Africa on these topics.
This APS intends to address two specific human rights challenges in West Africa: SGBV and TIP. Addressing the scourges of SGBV and TIP is a USG priority. The United States believes that preventing and responding to SGBV around the world is a matter of human rights, justice, equity, and equality, and is central to achieving the Agency’s mission to end extreme poverty and promote resilient, democratic societies while advancing security and prosperity in developing countries. The United States believes that TIP is a massive humanitarian and development challenge which affects millions of people of all ages worldwide. The United States Government. is legally mandated by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) to impose significant consequences on countries whose governments are not making significant efforts to meet the TVPA’s minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking.[1] For this reason, the USG is committed to supporting our partners efforts to combat trafficking-in-persons
[1] https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-trafficking-in-persons-report/
Grantor Contact Information: Robert Ago-Josiah A and A Specialist
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