Deadline: 20-Mar-24
The U.S Embassy Nassau, in collaboration with the U.S. State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration announces its 2024 Julia Taft Refugee Fund.
The Julia Taft Refugee Fund provides grant funding to non-profit organizations to address gaps in refugee assistance. Grants are intended to address one-time needs or interventions and/or respond to needs not addressed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), or other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) receiving U.S. government funding.
Program Objectives
- The Julia Taft Refugee Fund provides funding to support one-time, low-cost interventions that address important gaps in protection and assistance for refugees and persons at risk of statelessness or stateless persons.
- Proposals should demonstrate the need to respond to critical humanitarian gaps in The Bahamas experienced by or relative to refugees, stateless persons, and persons at risk of statelessness. Priority may be given to proposals focused on protecting or advancing the rights of refugees, stateless persons, and persons at risk of statelessness who are members of the LGBTQI+ community.
Priorities
- Proposals should address one or more of the following priorities:
- Legal Assistance, Protection, or Education for Newly Displaced Persons: including activities that provide time-bound assistance to refugees, asylum seekers, and/or vulnerable migrants newly displaced in The Bahamas. They will not consider proposals that intend to provide assistance for refugee, stateless, and migrant populations already receiving assistance from UNHCR, other UN agencies, or other U.S. Government assistance programs.
- Advocacy: including developing programming ideas to decrease vulnerabilities for stateless persons negatively impacted by the demolition of unregulated communities and advocate for new nationality, immigration, and asylum legislation or national policy.
- Reporting: including opportunities for unbiased reporting on the perception and treatment of refugees and persons at risk of statelessness or stateless persons by NGOs, government, governmental agencies etc.
- Capacity Building for civil society organizations: including capacity-building for organizations monitoring and advancing the rights of refugees and persons at risk of statelessness or stateless persons.
- Stateless Persons: including activities aimed at resolving, reducing, or preventing statelessness and/or assisting stateless persons to navigate local migration, refugee, and asylum processes.
- LGBTQI+ Persons: including activities that provide innovative assistance, promote equal access to protection, for LGBTQI+ asylum seekers, refugees, vulnerable migrants, and/or stateless persons.
Funding Information
- Total available funding: $25,000
- Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of $100 to a maximum of $25,000.
- Length of performance period: 0 to 12 months
- Number of awards anticipated: 3 awards (limited to a maximum of $25,000 per award)
- Anticipated program start date: October 2024
Participants and Audiences
- Proposals should clearly indicate the target audience. The project target audience must be identified for each proposal and must illustrate a minimum of 50% project participation by refugees, asylum seekers, and/or refugee returnees.
Priority Region: The Bahamas
Eligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- Not-for-profit organizations, including civil society/non-governmental organizations registered in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas;
- Public and private educational institutions
For more information, visit U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas.