Deadline: 14-May-21
The Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration (PRM) has announced the 2021 Request for Concept Notes for NGO Programs Preventing, Preparing for, and Responding to COVID-19.
Areas
Proposed activities must support one or more of the following program areas:
- Prevent, prepare for, and respond to the health impacts of COVID-19 on PRM’s POCs as well as the health and humanitarian aid workers who serve them; and/or
- Prepare for, mitigate, and address the economic, education, and protection impacts of COVID-19 on PRM’s POCs, including, but not limited to:
- Safe and managed access to asylum and protection services amid COVID19-related restrictions;
- Gender-based violence risk mitigation, prevention, and response;
- Child protection;
- Efforts to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from setbacks in accessing education due to COVID-19;
- Assistance to meet basic needs and recover from economic and livelihood losses resulting from COVID-19;
- Provision of mental health and psychosocial services (MHPSS) for POCs as well as the health and humanitarian aid workers who serve them
Global, Regional, and Country Provisions
Global, regional, and country guidelines appear below. Concept notes for regions and/or countries not specifically listed may be submitted but PRM will prioritize for funding concept notes received for regions and countries specifically covered in the guidelines below:
- Global – Improve and Strengthen Global Humanitarian Response: PRM will consider global concept notes that document and disseminate lessons learned and evidence from partners’ response to COVID-19 with the objective of improving the humanitarian system’s capacity to continue effective program delivery during a large-scale disease outbreak. This could include sector or response-wide tools, guidance, and evidence generation, with a focus on PRM’s populations of concern (refugees and asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons, stateless populations, conflict victims, and vulnerable migrants). Concept notes should address how investments will strengthen internal and system-wide approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic response and support institutional preparedness for future outbreaks.
- Regional Specific Guidelines: Proposed programs should be for 1 or 2 years, and for a funding amount not less than $500,000 and not more than $5 million per year.
- Country Specific Guidelines: Proposed programs should be for 1 or 2 years, and for a funding amount not less than $500,000 and not more than $5 million per year.
Funding Information
- Funding floor per award (lowest $$ value): $500,000 per year
- Funding ceiling per award (highest $$ value): $5,000,000 per year
- Duration of Activity: Program plans for 1 or 2 years will be considered.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants:
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with IRS, other than institutions of higher education (U.S.-based NGOs must be able to demonstrate proof of non-profit tax status); and
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with IRS, other than institutions of higher education (overseas-based NGOs must be able to demonstrate proof of registration in country of domicile).
- International multilateral organizations, such as United Nations agencies, are not eligible to submit new applications toward this funding opportunity.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333047