Deadline: 17-Feb-22
The U.S. Embassy in Mauritania is pleased to announce that it is accepting proposals – pending funding availability – through its Program and Grants Office for the U.S. Department of State’s Julia Taft program.
This fund is intended primarily to support projects that assist refugees, refugee returnees, migrants, statelessness, and other marginalized people within refugee, returnees, and migrant populations.
Funding Information
- The fund seeks to meet gaps in ongoing refugee programs that can be filled locally through projects of upto $50,000.
- Length of performance period: 3 to 12 months
- Number of awards anticipated: Four (04)
- Type of Funding: Fiscal Year 2022 JTF
- Anticipated program start date: October 1, 2022
- Program Performance Period: One year after signing.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Program and Grants Office (PGO) encourages applications from locally registered civil society entities such as, national and local non-governmental organizations, associations, cooperatives, or groups with refugee or returnee programming experience.
- The Taft Fund is intended for projects that include a target beneficiary base of at least 50 percent refugees or returned refugees.
- Embassy is also interested in supporting projects that address issues related to statelessness, assistance to marginalized groups within refugee, returnee, and migrant populations using the Taft Fund.
- Applicants are only allowed to submit one proposal per organization. If more than one proposal is submitted from an organization, all proposals fromthat institution will be considered ineligible for funding. In order to be eligible to receive an award, all organizations must have a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number from Dun & Bradstreet, as well as a valid registration on www.sam.gov .
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337427