Deadline: 17 January 2020
The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS) has announced new funding available to combat modern slavery through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP).
Program Categories
These opportunities fall into the following categories:
- Overseas Labour Recruitment – The Philippines
- Improve accountability by testing innovative approaches to identify bad actors and end their impunity
- Improve recruitment industry practices by supporting and incentivizing the effective, sustainable adoption of ethical recruitment
- Improve awareness and preparation in the most vulnerable source communities
- Commercial Sexual Exploitation – India
- Strengthen the system to prosecute traffickers and protect victims of CSEC in Maharashtra.
Framework for Action/Global Fund Outputs
GFEMS is designed to respond to these challenges and mobilize a coherent global strategy to eradicate modern slavery. The Fund is executing six major work streams:
- Increasing resources commensurate with the scale and complexity of the challenge, and elevating global commitment to address the issue
- Engaging government to facilitate ownership of anti-slavery strategies and create mechanisms for regional and global collaboration
- Engaging the private sector to help create market-based solutions, including targeted public-private partnerships that increase the impact and sustainability of anti-trafficking programs
- Engaging civil society to ensure effective design and implementation of interventions to end modern slavery
- Funding transformative programs and technologies within our three funding pillars (rule of law, business engagement, and sustaining freedom) to test, demonstrate, and scale high-impact approaches
- Ensuring robust assessment of impact by deploying cost effective approaches to measure prevalence reduction, return on investment, and drivers of vulnerability
Funding Pillars/Targeted Outcome Areas
The Fund’s grantmaking will catalyze reductions in slavery prevalence in communities and sectors in three interconnected thematic areas:
- Rule of Law – ending impunity and delivering justice for all forms of trafficking through effective laws and policies, criminal proceedings, and civil remedies
- Business Engagement – private sector creates value by eliminating forced labor from supply chains and investing in market-based solutions
- Sustaining Freedom – ensuring recovery, reintegration, and economic opportunity for victims and the most vulnerable populations
The Fund’s subrecipients will execute programs within and across these thematic areas in a way that supports the work streams in the Fund’s framework for action.
Award Information
- GFEMS expects to award approximately $3.4 million through this set of opportunities.
- The award ceiling per opportunity is $2 million; the award floor is $400,000.
Eligibility Criteria
An applicant must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible for GFEMS Funding:
- Registered non-profit organizations, multilateral organizations, academic institutions, and for-profit organizations with the caveat that for-profit organizations are not permitted to generate profit from grant-funded activities.
- Organizations that are able to demonstrate compliance with USG rules and regulations including the Uniform Guidance and FAR as applicable, and any audit requirements found in relevant regulation. (e.g., prior experience managing official development assistance funding from a government or multilateral organization, a minimum of 2 years of audited financials, etc.)
- Organizations with existing legal authority to operate in relevant overseas locations.
- Organizations that can legally receive funding that originates with the US Government without excessive tax or the use of an intermediary organization.
- Proposals must align with the Fund’s Theory of Change, including focus on prevalence measurement and reduction.
For more information, visit https://www.gfems.org/pems-solicitation-12-2019