Deadline: 25-Jul-22
The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to assess and quantify the environmental impacts of criminal organizations’ activities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Goal: To enhance regional access to knowledge regarding crimes that impact the environment and to enhance INL/WHP’s capacity to address these crimes with region-wide, on-demand data, and broadly increase INL/WHP’s understanding of applicable interventions, including hot-spots susceptible to crimes that affect the environment, relevant agencies, potential legal loopholes, and training and technical assistance.
Objectives
- Assess and Dashboard: The project focus will be on crimes that affect the environment perpetrated by criminal organizations and the environmental harm resulting from these organizations’ activities. Crime that effects the environment can also include illegal waste trafficking, chemical contamination, agricultural destruction, and the flouting of regulations meant to protect environmental/natural resources, which is closely linked to corruption, money laundering, other organized crime, and forced displacement.
- Analysis of Interventions and Recommendations: Analyze past interventions to deter the negative impact criminal activities have on the environment. Analysis should measure if the environmental degradation caused by the criminal activity stopped during the implementation of the intervention, if the intervention was sustainable (i.e., lasted longer than the implementation), how the intervention was accepted by the local community, the timeline to roll-out the intervention, and the estimated cost of the intervention.
- Launch and Amplify Findings: Identify and bring together stakeholders to launch the findings of this project, create mutual understanding of the threat of crimes that affect the environment in LAC, and generate dialogue and action in line with the project’s recommendations.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $1,125,000
- Award Floor: $1,125,000
- Initial Project Implementation Length: 18-24 months
- Estimated Project Start: September 2022
Priority Region/Countries: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
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;
- Foreign-based non-profits/non-governmental organizations (NGOs);
- Foreign-based educational institutions
- Applicants must also meet the following requirements to be eligible to apply to this NOFO:
- Must demonstrate the ability to either conduct the hard-science measurements of the environmental destruction caused in these crimes, including deforestation and related carbon emissions; waterway, soil, air contamination; and satellite imagery of environmental degradation when available; or must demonstrate the ability to contract or sub-grant this expertise.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340683