Deadline: 3 May 2019
The Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) announces an open competition for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 projects to combat trafficking in persons outside of the United States.
The FY 2019 programming priorities below are listed by geographic region and outline specific TIP Office project objectives by country or sub-region. Priorities were developed by reviewing recent TIP Report tier rankings and human trafficking trends; consulting with intra- and interagency policy and programming stakeholders; and considering current and planned programming from this office, other U.S. government agencies, and other public and private donors.
Africa
West and Central Africa Regional Program: The TIP Office seeks an applicant to implement a regional project that will benefit more than one country, such as Senegal, Chad, Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, and other countries to be identified by the applicant.
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors (Senegal, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo)
- Strengthen coordination between the anti-trafficking committee (CNLTP) and the appropriate agencies to better operationalize anti-trafficking policies (Senegal)
- Build effective human trafficking data collection systems, analytics, and reporting mechanisms to track and share information relevant to human trafficking and train stakeholders on existing collection methods. Mechanisms include – but are not limited to – databases containing information on identified victims of trafficking, potential victims of trafficking, cases, and/or potential human trafficking perpetrators (Senegal, Burkina Faso)
- Improve comprehensive services for identified victims of trafficking through the provision of shelter, healthcare, counseling, legal assistance, repatriation, reintegration, and/or education services that lead to victims’ achievement of sustainable livelihoods and/or community and family resilience (Senegal, Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo)
- Develop new and/or strengthen existing policies, laws, agreements, or mechanisms related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial, and/or local level. This may include – but is not limited to – the development of a National Referral Mechanism to provide a structured framework of outlined procedures for the identification and support of victims of trafficking, the creation of a human trafficking task force, and/or the creation of a National Action Plan where such mechanisms do not already exist (Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Togo)
- Raise awareness and provide educational information on human trafficking issues and risk factors to a target population, e.g. first responders, medical professionals, teachers, religious leaders, etc. (Mauritania, Niger, Benin, Togo)
- Other programmatic areas as identified by the applicant.
East Africa
- Ethiopia – Tier 2
- Strengthen the capacity of national and regional task forces to implement the national referral mechanism (NRM), and establish shelter services for male victims of trafficking
- Strengthen the capacity of the Witness Protection Unit and operationalize the NRM victim-witness protection processes and procedures
- Address the problem of children in domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation
- Djibouti – Tier 2
- Institutionalize National TIP Referral Mechanisms between state actors and civil society
- Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) Regional Project: Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, and Seychelles
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors (Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles)
- Institutionalize National TIP Referral Mechanisms between state actors and civil society (Mauritius)
Southern Africa
- South Africa – Tier 2
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors
- Southern Africa Regional Project
- Develop new and/or strengthen existing policies, laws, agreements, or mechanisms related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial, and/or local level
- Improve comprehensive services for identified victims of trafficking through the provision of shelter, healthcare, counseling, legal assistance, repatriation, reintegration, and/or education services that lead to victims’ achievement of sustainable livelihoods and/or community and family resilience
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors
- Angola – Tier 2
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors
- Strengthen existing policies, laws, agreements, or mechanisms related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial, and/or local level
- Improve comprehensive services for identified victims of trafficking through the provision of shelter, healthcare, counseling, legal assistance, repatriation, reintegration, and/or education services that lead to victims’ achievement of sustainable livelihoods and/or community and family resilience
- Raise awareness, and provide educational information on human trafficking issues and risk factors to a target population
- Lesotho – Tier 2
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors
- Create results-driven community, subnational, national, and regional networks empowered to combat human trafficking
- Raise awareness and provide educational information on human trafficking issues and risk factors to a target population
East Asia and the Pacific Islands (Eap)
- Laos – Tier 3
- Strengthen existing policies, laws, agreements, or mechanisms related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial, and/or local level
- Create results-driven community, subnational, national, and regional networks empowered to combat human trafficking. Examples include – but are not limited to – the creation of community watch groups, human trafficking survivor networks, and multi-stakeholder initiatives to combat trafficking
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors
- Malaysia – Tier 2
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors.
- Improve comprehensive services for identified victims of human trafficking through the provision of shelter, healthcare, counseling, legal assistance, repatriation, reintegration, and/or education services that lead to victims’ achievement of sustainable livelihoods and/or community and family resilience.
- Develop new and/or strengthen existing policies, laws, agreements, or mechanisms related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial, and/or local level.
- Indonesia – Tier 2
- Develop new and/or strengthen existing policies, laws, agreements, or mechanisms related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial, and/or local level
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations, prosecutions, and convictions
Europe And Eurasia (Eur)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina – Tier 2
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- Improve comprehensive services for identified victims of trafficking through the provision of shelter, healthcare, counseling, legal assistance, repatriation, reintegration, and/or education services that lead to victims’ achievement of sustainable livelihoods and/or community and family resilience
- Enhance criminal justice strategies to improve prosecution and sentencing outcomes, resulting in an increased number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors
- Implement concrete steps to operationalize the multi-disciplinary national referral mechanism
- Raise awareness and provide educational information on human trafficking issues and risk factors to a target population, e.g. first responders, medical professionals, teachers, etc.
- Create results-driven community, subnational, national, and regional networks empowered to combat human trafficking. Examples include – but are not limited to – the creation of community watch groups, human trafficking survivor networks, and multi-stakeholder initiatives to combat trafficking
- Romania – Tier 2
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- Improve comprehensive services for identified victims of trafficking through the provision of shelter, healthcare, counseling, legal assistance, repatriation, reintegration, and/or education services that lead to victims’ achievement of sustainable livelihoods and/or community and family resilience.
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors.
- Raise awareness, and provide educational information on human trafficking issues and risk factors to a target population (e.g. first responders, medical professionals, teachers, etc.)
Near Eastern Affairs (NEA)
- Jordan – Tier 2
- Develop new and/or strengthen existing policies, laws, agreements, or mechanisms related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial and/or local level
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors
- Iraq – Tier 2
- Improve comprehensive services for identified victims of trafficking (e.g., the provision of shelter, healthcare, counseling, legal assistance, repatriation, reintegration, and/or education services that lead to victims’ achievement of sustainable livelihoods and/or community and family resilience)
- Train and, where possible, mentor first responders, law enforcement officers, and judicial officials (especially judges) on trafficking indicators and utilizing a victim-centered approach to handling trafficking cases, including cases involving both foreign and Iraqi victims
- Develop new and/or strengthen existing policies, laws, agreements, or mechanisms related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial, and/or local level
- Conduct awareness raising activities and provide educational information on human trafficking issues and risk factors to a target population, e.g., first responders, medical professionals, teachers, etc.
- Lebanon – Tier 2
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors
- Develop new and/or strengthen existing policies, laws, agreements, or mechanism related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial, and/or local level
South and Central Asia (SCA)
- Pakistan: Tier 2
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors
- Improve comprehensive services for identified victims of trafficking through the provision of shelter, healthcare, counseling, legal assistance, repatriation, reintegration, and/or education services that lead to victims’ achievement of sustainable livelihoods and/or community and family resilience.
- Build effective human trafficking data collection systems, analytics, and reporting mechanisms to track and share information relevant to human trafficking and train stakeholders on existing collection methods. Mechanisms include – but are not limited to– databases containing information on identified victims of trafficking, potential victims of trafficking, cases, and/or potential human trafficking perpetrators.
- Nepal – Tier 2
- Improve comprehensive services for identified victims of human trafficking
Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA)
- Ecuador – Tier 2
- Draft comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation consistent with international law and encourage its enactment
- Develop new and/or strengthen existing policies, agreements, or mechanisms related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial, and/or local level. This could include the creation or reinforcement of a human trafficking task force and/or the implementation of the soon-to-be-developed National Action Plan
- Increase the number of victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions, including those involving public officials complicit in trafficking crimes
- Peru – Tier 2
- Increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by members of law enforcement and prosecutors
- Improve comprehensive services for identified victims of trafficking through the provision of shelter, healthcare, counseling, legal assistance, repatriation, reintegration, and/or education services that lead to victims’ achievement of sustainable livelihoods and/or community and family resilience
- Develop new and/or strengthen existing policies, laws, agreements, or mechanisms related to human trafficking that are enforceable by a governing body at the international, national, provincial, and/or local level
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations eligible to apply include U.S.-based and foreign non-profits, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), for-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, and public international organizations (PIOs).
- For-profit organizations are not permitted to generate profits from grant-funded activities. U.S. government agencies may respond to this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) with proposals for projects that would be funded through an Interagency Acquisition Agreement. While foreign governments are not eligible to apply, governments may be beneficiaries of programs provided that funding does not pay salaries of government agency personnel and that such assistance is not restricted by U.S. law or policy. Organizations currently receiving funds from the TIP Office may apply for additional funding under the present funding opportunity.
- The eligibility requirements for applying to this funding opportunity do not restrict applicants from receiving other sources of funding from the United States government, including funding from other bureaus within the Department of State. However, related U.S. government programming must be identified by the applicant.
- Applicants should demonstrate experience administering successful projects—preferably in human trafficking or related areas and in the identified country or sub-region. Applicants for this funding opportunity may partner with other organizations in submitting proposal(s).
- Applicants partnering with other organizations must identify the prime applicant, and the applicant may designate one or more partner organizations as sub-recipients. Please note, all mandatory terms and conditions for a successful applicant also apply to any sub-awards awarded.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=314652