Grants for Supporting Partner Capabilities to Address Russian Malign Influence

Deadline: 31-Jan-23

The Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).

ISN/CTR sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) account, and focuses on mitigating weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and WMD-related delivery systems proliferation and security threats from non-state actors and proliferator states.

Program Objectives

ISN/CTR/SP’s Program to Build Partner Capabilities to Address Russian Malign Influence (RMI) seeks proposals that strengthen partner capacities to identify and respond to Russian active measures by:

Increasing partner countries’ ability to identify and respond to Russian active measures, including the use of hard-to-detect CBR agents and other incapacitating agents in targeted assassinations;
Enhancing international awareness of the multitude and coordinated use of Russian active measures to decrease Russia’s ability to conduct these actions with impunity;
Building a credible and effective baseline of detection and reporting to help raise the cost of future use of chemical, biological, or radiological weapons;
Enhancing partner capacity to strengthen nonproliferation and cyber norms in a hostile information environment;
Strengthening public health infrastructure, nonproliferation cooperation, and regimes to respond to Russian active measures and harmful CBR disinformation campaigns; and
Strengthening nonproliferation norms and developing of an international community of experts that leverage this network to provide a cooperative response against Russian malign influence; and
Enhancing the ability of the government of Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s continued invasion through providing Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) response training, personal protective equipment, medical countermeasures, and critical infrastructure support.

Funding Information

Length of performance period: 12 Months
Number of awards anticipated: 20-50 awards (dependent on amounts)
Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of $50,000 to a maximum of $200,000
Total available funding: $3,089,500

Engagement Countries

Awareness: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Philippines, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan
Institutionalization: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine