NGO Programs Benefiting Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Deadline: 28-Apr-21

The Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration is pleased to announce applications for NGO Programs Benefiting Refugees and Asylum Seekers.

Program Sectors

Proposals must focus on one or more of the following programmatic sectors

• Protection
• Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response
• Child protection
• Health
• Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
• Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
• Nutrition and Food Security
• Education
• Livelihoods (must include a market analysis, or will be disqualified)
• Shelter
• Core Relief Items/Cash-Based Initiatives

Country-specific Provisions

Indonesia

• General Guidance
  • PRM welcomes submissions from both international and Indonesia-based NGOs serving unaccompanied and separated refugee and asylum seeker children (UASC) with quality alternatives to detention in Indonesia. PRM strongly encourages partnerships with women-led organizations when possible.
• Sector: Child Protection. Specifically, PRM welcomes submissions that:
  • Improve access of UASC to protective care in a safe and secure environment.
  • Provision of case management, implemented by well-trained staff with appropriate supervision that addresses protection needs and other vulnerabilities through direct support and/or referrals, including emergency assistance, access to quality education, and referrals to other NGOs/service providers when UASC “age out.”
  • Improve access to education services, both formal and informal, as well as recreational activities.
• Duration of Activity: Program plans for 24 or 36 months will be considered.
• Funding Limits: Program proposals must not be less than the funding floor and not more than the funding ceiling per year or they will be disqualified.
  • Funding floor per award (lowest $$ value): $300,000
  • Funding ceiling per award (highest $$ value): $500,000
  • Anticipated Number of Awards: PRM anticipates, but makes no guarantee, to fund as many as one (1) award through this announcement.
  • Anticipated Amount to be awarded: PRM anticipates, but makes no guarantee, to award up to approximately $500,000 total through this NOFO for Indonesia.

Malaysia

• General Guidance
  • PRM welcomes submissions from both international and Malaysia-based NGOs serving the urban refugee and asylum seeker population in and around Kuala Lumpur, the Klang Valley, Penang, Kedah, and Perak.
• Sectors: Protection (including Case Management and Emergency and Legal Assistance), Child Protection, GBV Prevention and Response, Healthcare (Health, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support). Specifically, PRM welcomes submissions that:
  • Protection:
    • Respond to immediate, life-saving needs through provision of emergency short-term shelter and auxiliary services, including transportation, medical care, psychosocial support, and counselling to GBV survivors and their children.
    • Provide specialized counselling services to refugees (adults and children) to prevent repeated abuse and/or improve overall well-being.
  • Healthcare:
    • Improve access to primary health care, including reproductive health, medical services, mental health, and/or psychosocial support, including the implementation of mobile health clinics.
    • Provide nursing facilities for refugee patients requiring recuperation and post-hospitalization nursing care.
    • Provide health-based training and education focusing on general health care, communicable disease prevention, treatment adherence, reproductive health, and/or nutrition.
    • Provide medical support and rehabilitative services for refugees and asylum seekers who have experienced torture, forced labor, human trafficking, long-term detention, or economic exploitation or who may be unable to work because of mental or physical illness.
  • Gender-based Violence (GBV) Prevention and Response:
    • Improve knowledge of GBV and promote positive changes in attitudes and behaviors within refugee and host communities through targeted and sustained engagement.
    • Increase the capacity of target communities to identify and effectively respond to GBV through skills-building, training, and coaching.
    • Improve the capacity of service providers to provide timely, high-quality health, including reproductive health, psychosocial, safety, justice, and/or other services, as well as multi-sectoral referral services.
    •  Increase knowledge and awareness of GBV among adult refugees and asylum seekers.
    • Build capacity of teachers in refugee learning centers to train their own students on GBV risks, prevention, and response.
• Duration of Activity: Program plans for 24 or 36 months will be considered.
• Funding Limits: Program proposals must not be less than the funding floor and not more than the funding ceiling per year or they will be disqualified.
  • Funding floor per award (lowest $$ value): $300,000
  • Funding ceiling per award (highest $$ value): $600,000
  • Anticipated Number of Awards: PRM anticipates, but makes no guarantee, to fund as many as four (4) awards through this announcement.
  • Anticipated Amount to be awarded: PRM anticipates, but makes no guarantee, to fund up to four awards up to $600,000 per year total through this NOFO for Malaysia.

Thailand

• General Guidance
  • PRM welcomes submissions from both international and Thailand-based NGOs to provide inclusive and sustainable assistance to refugees in camps along the Thailand-Burma border to facilitate their resilience and voluntary repatriation when conditions allow.
• Sectors: Protection (including Case Management and Emergency and Legal Assistance), and Livelihoods. Specifically, PRM welcomes submissions that:
  • Protection:
    • Improve inclusion and preparation for the voluntary return of people with disabilities in three refugee camps in Thailand when conditions allow.
    • Increase knowledge among people-at-risk about mine risk education to further adopt safe Explosive Ordnance (EO) related practices in nine refugee camps Thailand.
    • Increase the level of information of the refugee population in nine camps in Thailand about EO risk in Burma.
  • Livelihoods:
    • Increase preparation for local integration or voluntary return of youth in three refugee camps in Thailand, via vocational training recognized by the Governments of Thailand and Burma.
• Duration of Activity: Program plans for 24 or 36 months will be considered.
• Funding Limits: Program proposals must not be less than the funding floor and not more than the funding ceiling per year or they will be disqualified.
  • Funding floor per award (lowest $$ value): $300,000
  • Funding ceiling per award (highest $$ value): $600,000
  • Anticipated Number of Awards: PRM anticipates, but makes no guarantee, to fund as many as one (1) award through this announcement.
  • Anticipated Amount to be awarded: PRM anticipates, but makes no guarantee, to fund up to one award up to $600,000 per year total through this NOFO for Thailand.

Eligibility Criteria

• 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);
• 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); and
• International Organizations.

For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332401