Deadline: 7-Jun-21
The Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) announces an open competition for grant funding to support the Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS), applicants are invited to submit proposals describing how they will advance transformational, research-integrated projects in Brazil.
The goal of PEMS is to measurably and substantially reduce the prevalence of human trafficking in targeted populations in partner countries and jurisdictions through innovative interventions driven by research, monitoring, evaluation, and learning, and the expansion of partnerships with government, academia, civil society organizations, international organizations, and the private sector.
The TIP Office leads the United States’ global engagement in the fight against human trafficking to combat human trafficking through the “3P” paradigm:
- Prosecuting traffickers;
- Protecting trafficking victims, and
- Preventing trafficking in persons.
Funding Information
- The award ceiling is $15 million.
- The Office expects to award the PEMS funds to the successful applicant(s) by September 30, 2021.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S.-based and foreign non-profits, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), for-profit organizations, public international organizations (PIOs), and institutions of higher education are eligible to apply for funding under this solicitation.
- For-profit organizations are not permitted, once an award has been granted, to generate profits from grant-funded activities without explicit TIP Office approval.
- The Department of State’s Office of the Procurement Executive must provide additional approval for grants awarded to for-profit entities.
- Foreign governments are not eligible to apply, although governments may be beneficiaries of funded programs, provided that funding does not pay salaries of government agency personnel and such assistance is not otherwise limited by U.S. law or TIP Office policy.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332726