Deadline: 21-Jul-21
The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State has announced an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to develop and produce at least one but up to four educational videos on the identification and mitigation of explicit and implicit bias within the criminal justice system.
Goal: The goal of this project is to create videos and facilitated discussion guides for foreign criminal justice practitioners to recognize how implicit and explicit bias and discrimination occurs throughout the criminal justice system as well as understand what steps they can take to address, mitigate and counter their own and others’ activities that contribute to these unjust practices.
Objectives
The objectives for this project are to create videos and develop accompanying facilitator and student guides that will enable:
- Foreign criminal justice practitioners understand where bias and discrimination can occur within the entire criminal justice system.
- Foreign criminal justice practitioners identify actions to take to mitigate bias and counter discrimination in their criminal justice system.
- Foreign criminal justice practitioners recognize practices within their sector that can lead to bias and discrimination against individuals as they pass through the criminal justice system.
- Foreign criminal justice practitioners identify actions to take within their sector to mitigate bias and counter discrimination against individuals passing through the system.
Funding Information
- Total available funding: $500,000
- Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of $50,000 to a maximum of $500,000
- Number of awards anticipated: 1-3 awards (dependent on amounts)
- Length of performance period: 6 to 18 months
- Anticipated program start date: September 15, 2021
Participants and Audiences
- The videos (one for overall criminal justice system and one each for law enforcement, corrections, and justice sectors) will be shown to foreign criminal justice practitioners as a module in trainings provided by INL’s U.S.-based state and local partners and may expand to other programs. There will also be discussions and/or practical exercises that accompany the videos. The facilitator guide will be primarily for U.S.-based criminal justice sector experts and the student guides will be for foreign criminal justice sector practitioners.
- INL’s State and Local Partners (SLP) program leverages the expertise of U.S criminal justice agencies and personnel to provide training, technical assistance, and mentoring support to their foreign counterparts. Experts from INL’s state and local partners serve on short-term, INLfunded international assignments to mentor and train their counterparts in cooperating countries as well as to host foreign counterparts in the United States for study tours and trainings.
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
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333744