Deadline: 30-Apr-21
The University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGARF) has funding from the US Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (J/TIP) to estimate and reduce the prevalence of sex trafficking in the West African country of Senegal.
The grant is managed by the African Programming and Research Initiative to End Slavery (APRIES), a consortium of researchers from the University of Georgia (USA) and University of Liverpool (United Kingdom), in research partnership with Kantar. APRIES uses a collective impact approach in all its work – including research, programming, monitoring, and evaluation.
Goals
The goals of the project are to:
- Collect, analyze, and establish robust baseline data on the prevalence of sex trafficking of adolescent girls and young women aged 16 to 21 in Kédougou region hotspots.
- Enhance the quality and scope of our implementing partners’ anti sex trafficking operations resulting in a measurable reduction in baseline reporting in target communities and an increase in number of victims served from baseline by April 2024.
The impactful program(s) will respond to identified service and policy gaps that APRIES will discuss with the successful applicants. These might include strengthening anti-trafficking policies and laws, community education and sensitization in the area of sex trafficking, provision of evidence-informed psychosocial and workforce training for survivors of trafficking, evidence-informed reintegration programs, or programs that increase the identification of vulnerable persons or victims of sex trafficking.
Funding Information
- Funding: The ceiling for each award is US $909,000 for protection, US $715,000 for prevention and US $715,000 for prosecution, totaling US $2,339,000 for the entire program period of 29 months (2 years, 5 months).
- Estimated Number of Awards: Up to 3 awards will be made through this program solicitation.
- Program Period: Programs must start by October 1, 2021 and end by March 31, 2024 with a total program period of 29 months (2 years, 5 months).
Components
Proposed activities may include one or more of the following components:
- Component 1: Strengthening the prosecution of perpetrators: APRIES seeks to fund NGOs or civil society organizations that can:
- Enable local and/or national entities to implement the existing 2005 Law to Combat Trafficking in Persons and Related Practices and to Protect Victims, especially in relation to sex trafficking with a focus on the target hotspots within the departments of Kédougou and Saraya.
- Advocate for effective policies and laws that counter sex trafficking practices in ways that protect survivors, empower local authorities such as the Chefs de village (village chiefs), and result in successful prosecutions of traffickers. Collaboration with the National Gendarme, Ministry of Justice, La Cellule Nationale de Lutte contre la Traite des Personnes (CNLTP), as well as other relevant government agencies is highly desired.
- Provide development opportunities (e.g., trainings) to national and local entities with enforcement authority focused on understanding and/or reducing sex trafficking in the target hotspots in Kédougou and Saraya. Training may be required in the areas of Trafficking in Persons (TIP), case detection, investigation, child protection strategies and policy implementation.
- Advance efforts that hold accountable actors who facilitate the commercial sexual exploitation of young women through force, fraud or coercion.
- Component 2: Protection of sex trafficking survivors: APRIES seeks to fund NGOs or civil society organizations that can use survivor-centered and trauma-informed approaches to:
- Provide appropriate shelter, psychosocial support and medical assistance for survivors of sex trafficking in coordination with Government of Senegal agencies and federated committees such as the Departmental Committee to Promote Child Protection (CDPE).
- Provide appropriate reintegration services to survivors of sex trafficking through culturally sensitive strategies that engage victims, survivors, at risk young women, protective services and community workers. Appropriate reintegration services would include repatriation, and we hope that applicants are able to work with organizations such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to execute this.
- Provide life skills and vocational training to survivors of sex trafficking.
- Component 3: Prevention of sex trafficking: APRIES seeks to fund NGOs or civil society organizations that can:
- Implement community sensitization efforts in close collaboration with local leadership structures with the goal of changing attitudes, practices, behavior, and knowledge linked to sex trafficking, especially targeting adolescent girls and young women aged 16 to 21 years.
- Strengthen and develop partnerships among administrative and traditional leaders, such as Chefs de village, as well as law enforcement officials in order to prevent sex trafficking.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations, community-based organizations (CBOs), public international organizations (PIOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in the Kédougou area or within close geographical proximity to these areas (e.g. in the same country) with experience doing anti-trafficking work are eligible. Organizations with no prior experience in the target country; organizations with no prior experience in anti-trafficking work; government agencies; and private entities are not eligible to apply. It is the responsibility of applicants to demonstrate their capacity to successfully implement programs in the areas the propose to work in.
- Through this open, transparent, and competitive bid, and to enable them to meet their goals, they are seeking local implementing partners who may be non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society, local community-based organizations (CBOs), public international organizations (PIOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), or a partnership or coalition incorporating several types of organization. Government agencies are not allowed to apply for this opportunity. Selected implementing partners will be required to comply with all the articles that will be included in the memoranda of understanding (MOUs). Organizations that have prior experience in anti-trafficking work in the Kédougou area are especially encouraged to apply.
- Successful applicants will demonstrate capacity to manage US government (USG) funding in an ethical and prudent way. Selected applicants will be expected to provide important documentation prior to receiving an award that includes: incorporation or registration certificate; list of board of directors or trustees; organizational chart; written accounting policies and procedures; standard procurement manual; written policy for travel expenses; and the last three years of audited financial statements.
For more information, visit https://apries.uga.edu/cfp-trafficking-sn/