Deadline: 4-Jun-21
The Department of Homeland Security is pleased to announce applications for Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant (EMBAG) Program to develop, maintain and update, and test national level standards for emergency management that can help ensure that jurisdictions (state, tribal, territorial, and local communities) have accredited emergency management programs and certified emergency management professionals in place in advance of an incident.
To achieve this purpose, the EMBAG supports voluntary national-level standards and peer review assessment processes that jurisdictions can use to identify the capacity and shortfalls of their emergency management programs and professionals and develop a path to compliance.
These national-level standards fall under “other assistance” of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to “build tribal, local, State, regional, and national capabilities necessary to respond to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster.”
The EMBAG specifically supports:
- The development, maintenance, update, revision, and enhancement of voluntary national-level standards and peer review assessment processes for emergency preparedness and response that are driven, established, validated, and revised through consensus;
- Related efforts to develop or update national-level accreditation for these standards; and
- The assessment of select state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management programs and professionals against these national-level standards.
Objectives
The EMBAG program supports investment in national-level standards for emergency management that target critical functions necessary to prepare for and manage disasters, with the goal of supporting the following short and long-term outcomes:
- In the short to mid-term, jurisdiction emergency management programs participating in the EMBAG achieve compliance with national-level standards for critical functions necessary to prepare for and manage disasters. Long-term, these programs increase their preparedness to manage disasters.
- In the short to mid-term, emergency management professionals tied to jurisdiction emergency management programs and participating in the EMBAG achieve compliance with national-level standards for critical functions necessary to manage emergency management programs. Long-term, these professionals increase their capability to manage these programs during disasters.
Funding Information
- Available Funding for the NOFO: $825,000
- Projected Number of Awards: 2-4
- Period of Performance: 12 Months
Eligibility Criteria
- The following are eligible applicants for this funding opportunity:
- Nonprofits
- Institutions of higher education
- The criterion defining eligible nonprofit organizations and institutes of higher education is based on demonstrating competence in emergency management program accreditation and/or emergency management professional certification.
- Applicant Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible nonprofit organizations and institutes of higher education must be able to demonstrate, for either emergency management program accreditation AND/OR emergency management professional certification, that they are qualified to develop, update, revise, and enhance national-level standards for emergency management and implement assessments against them for emergency management programs AND/OR emergency management professionals.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332973