Deadline: 14-Feb-22
The U.S. Embassy in Conakry, Guinea announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to implement programs to protect refugees in Guinea via the Julia Taft Refugee Fund, in collaboration with the Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM).
The fund is designed to meet critical refugee protection and assistance needs, filling gaps not addressed by other organizations. The initiative seeks to provide U.S. Ambassadors the means to respond to critical programming gaps that have not been addressed in larger multilateral refugee programs.
The U.S. government is prohibited from providing assistance to the Government of Guinea (including local institutions, such as schools and local government representatives) until a democratically elected government is installed. Projects cannot involve the participation of government officials or employees serving in their official capacity or occur in government-owned facilities.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $25,000
- Award Ceiling:$25,000
- Award Floor:$5,000
Program Activities
Below are examples of activities that can be funded under this program. Please make sure that there is a strong tie to the local context building on the competencies/capacity of the proposing organization:
- Improve the mental health of the refugee community.
- Support a sports program for refugee youth.
- Build a playground for refugee children.
- Start an income-generating cooperative for returnees.
- Support an education program for refugees.
- Develop a youth program for refugees.
- Support livelihoods training and sports programs.
- Support a transit center for unaccompanied minor refugees and asylum seekers.
- Support early childhood education, health, and nutrition activities.
- Support water, sanitation, health, and livelihoods.
- Provide protection for vulnerable refugees.
- Provide a shelter for women and girls refugees who are survivors of gender-based violence (GBV).
- Provide security upgrades to a camp.
- Support a vocational training program for refugees.
- Support returnees with manufacturing of liquid soap.
- Train refugees in gardening and running small businesses.
- Support income generating activities
- Support an urban refugee training and girls’ empowerment project.
- Support an orphanage center and an income-generating project at refugee settlement.
- Train mothers of youth, who participate in non-formal out-of-school program, on furniture re-upholstery and provide the women with basic hygiene awareness.
- Provide agricultural support to returnee families.
Eligibility Criteria and Funding Guidelines
- The funds are meant to support projects that assist refugees or refugee returnees.
- The Taft Refugee Fund is intended for projects that include a target beneficiary base of at least 50 percent refugees or returnees.
- Requests to provide funding to populations other than refugees/returnees are discouraged, but exceptions can be made in some regions with “populations of concern” to PRM, such as internally displaced persons (IDPs), vulnerable migrants, and stateless persons.
- PRM seeks to support local organizations to support equal access to protection, assistance, and other solutions for LGBTQI+ refugees and stateless persons.
- Consideration for support is also given to projects that benefit both populations of concern and their host communities.
- The fund is not meant as an emergency fund and these should be one-time interventions, not sustained programs.
- Applicants must be a registered organization, such as an NGO, community-based organization, or faith-based organization.
- National/local NGOs will be given priority. We may consider proposals for support of international NGOs (INGOs), but the preference is to support reliable national/local NGOs to strengthen their capacity.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337441
