Deadline: 27-Dec-22
The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to pilot a Community Engagement Citizen Agency Model (CECAM) in four municipalities.
The project will create a sustainable model for citizen engagement in identifying and carrying out citizen security-related improvements in the community.
Project Goal(s) and Objectives
The project goal is for each municipality to identify, propose, and implement at least one initiative under the CECAM model that makes security-related improvements in the community. The most significant aim of the project is to create and institutionalize the process by which those improvements are made, leading to a self-sustaining cycle of consultative improvements.
- Objective 1: Design a pilot Community Engagement Citizen Agency Model (CECAM) in three months.
- Objective 2: Implement a pilot project under the CECAM within 6 months of Objective 1.
- Objective 3: Produce guides and toolkits that direct the establishment of a CECAM, delineates best practices, and shares lessons learned based on project output and community feedback at the end of the program (after multiple implementations of Objective 1 and 2).
- Objective 4: Mentor CECAM and Municipal stakeholders in perpetuating and iterating the CECAM model during and after the implementation of the pilot project
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $650,000
- Award Floor: $500,000.
Participants and Audiences
- Municipal governments, local community organizations, and other local stakeholders are the intended audience for these activities. INL will serve as liaison with the municipalities and assist the awardee in the presentation of the project to local authorities and stakeholders. Successful projects will include ADESCOs and organizations with similar missions. Applicants should describe how they will ensure equitable (and safe) inclusion, using participatory, locally led, and intersectional approaches as appropriate.
- Successful proposals will pay special attention to diversity and inclusion. Women and gender diverse persons are often excluded from, not appropriately represented in, and underserved by security institutions in El Salvador. They also face high levels of sexual and gender-based violence. Implementors should seek to include other marginalized groups such asindigenous communities, who are also often disproportionately impacted by security challenges.
- Proposals should consider how inclusion will improve outcomes for the CECAM, democratic institutions, and interventions arising from CECAM processes, and proposals should be informed by those perspectives.
Priority Region/Countries: El Salvador
Eligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- U.S.-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations (NGOs);
- U.S.-based educational institutions subject to section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code or section 26 US 115 of the US 115 of the U.S. tax code;
- Foreign-based non-profits/non-governmental organizations (NGOs);
- Foreign-based educational institutions.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344182