Deadline: 16-Feb-23
The Department of State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of Assistance Coordination (NEA/AC) is providing grants to support programming to improve access for Syrians to unbiased, accurate, and locally relevant information as a means to empower citizens, promote accountability, and counter violent extremist narratives.
Purpose
The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to advance the following U.S. Government policy priorities in Syria:
- Ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS and al-Qaeda to counter violent extremism;
- Support ceasefire agreements to reduce violence;
- Expand humanitarian access and the delivery of humanitarian aid across Syria;
- Promote long-term, locally led, and internationally supported approaches to transitional justice, accountability, and reconciliation; and,
- Advance a political solution to the Syrian conflict under the auspices of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR).
Objectives
Proposed project activities should achieve the following objectives:
- Improve independent media platforms’ capacity, journalistic production and management to ensure access for Syrians to unbiased, accurate, and locally relevant information, to empower citizens, promote accountability, and counter violent extremist narratives; and
- Counter disinformation perpetuated by designated by the Assad regime, terrorist organizations and other malign actors through support for professional Syrian media outlets
Funding Information
- Estimated Number of Awards: One (1)
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $15,000,000
- Estimated Base Year Award Ceiling: $5,000,000
- Estimated Base Year Award Floor: $3,000,000
- Estimated Length of Project Period: One to Three (1-3) Years
Ineligible Activities
- Exchange activities with other countries or territories;
- Activities that appear partisan or that support individual or party electoral campaigns;
- Academic or analytical research (if not necessary as part of a larger project);
- Medical and psychological research and clinical studies;
- Projects of a commercial or profit-making nature; and
- Entertainment costs
Eligible Countries and Territories
- In this announcement, they seek to support activities focused on Syria. The project should be implemented from a third country, with a strong justification for why that country was chosen. NEA/AC requires that applicants be in sound legal standing with appropriate government authorities in the country where the project will be managed at the time of award of this funding opportunity.
- Key overseas personnel must be co-located, while consideration should be taken for minimizing the need for expatriate and/or Third-Country National staff and operational costs. Award recipients will be required to maintain legal standing throughout the life of the award, including for any sub-grant made under its auspices.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include:
- U.S. or foreign
- Non-profit organizations;
- For-profit organizations;
- Private, public, or state institutions of higher education; and
- Public international organizations
- NEA/AC is committed to an anti-discrimination policy in all of its programs and activities. NEA/AC welcomes applications irrespective of an applicants’ race, ethnicity, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. They encourage applications from organizations working with underserved communities, including women, people with disabilities, and youth.
- NEA/AC strongly encourages applications from civil society organizations headquartered in the Middle East and North Africa region. International non-governmental organizations with principal bases of operations outside the Middle East and North Africa are also encouraged to apply, but the percentage of total budget actually spent in the region through local partners will be among the elements of evaluation for this competition.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.