Deadline: 16-Mar-22
The Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration (PRM) is accepting applications to support refugees and asylum seekers populations in Tanzania and Uganda.
Because of PRM’s mandate to provide protection, assistance, and sustainable solutions for refugees and victims of conflict, PRM will consider funding only those programs that include a target beneficiary base of at least 50 percent refugees/asylum seekers.
Areas
Proposals must align with one or more of the following program areas.
- Humanitarian Protection and Assistance
- Interim and Durable Solutions
Country-specific
- Tanzania
- Applicants should explain how the proposed activities align with the current Tanzania Country Refugee Response Plan (Tanzania RRP). Proposals must focus on the refugee and asylum seeker populations located in camp-based settings in Tanzania. They expect applicants to coordinate with UNHCR in planning, implementation and reporting within the overall Tanzania RRP framework and respective sectors.
- Proposals must focus on the following sectors in the refugee camps:
- Protection – including child protection, GBV prevention and response, and support for vulnerable groups
- Education
- Duration of Activity: Program plans for two or three years will be considered.
- Period of Performance: Programs period of performance of 24 or 36 months will be considered.
- Funding limits: Program proposals must not be less than the funding floor and not more than the funding ceiling per year or they will be disqualified.
- Funding floor per year (lowest $ value): $750,000 per year
- Funding ceiling per year (highest $ value): $2,500,000 per year
- Uganda
- Proposed activities must explain how they align with the CRRF and current Uganda Refugee Response Plan (Uganda RRP). They expect applicants to coordinate with UNHCR in planning, implementation and reporting within the overall Uganda RRP framework and respective sectors.
- Proposals must focus on one or more of the following sectors:
- Protection (including child protection, GBV prevention and response, and support for vulnerable groups)
- Education
- Livelihoods (full proposals must include a market analysis, or will be disqualified)
- Mental health and psychosocial support
- Duration of Activity: Program plans for two or three years will be considered.
- Period of Performance: Programs period of performance of 24 or 36 months will be considered.
- Funding limits: Program proposals must not be less than the funding floor and not more than the funding ceiling per year or they will be disqualified.
- Funding floor per year (lowest $ value): $900,000 per year
- Funding ceiling per year (highest $ value): $4,250,000 per year
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Applicants
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with IRS, other than institutions of higher education (U.S.-based NGOs must be able to demonstrate proof of non-profit tax status);
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with IRS, other than institutions of higher education (overseas-based NGOs must be able to demonstrate proof of registration in country of domicile); and
- International Organizations. International multilateral organizations, such as United Nations agencies, should not submit proposals through Grants.gov in response to this NOFO.
- Multilateral organizations seeking funding for programs relevant to this announcement should contact the PRM Program Officer on or before the closing date of the funding announcement.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338061