Deadline: 3-May-23
The Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration is offering grants to support NGO programs benefiting refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable migrants in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama.
Program Areas
- Proposals must align with one or more of the following program areas:
- Humanitarian Protection and Assistance; or
- Interim and Durable Solutions
Country-Specific Guidelines
- Costa Rica
- Core Relief: Items Programs that provide standard, life-sustaining items such as mattresses, blankets, plastic sheets, containers for water, cooking utensils, and hygiene kits through in-kind, cash, or voucher assistance.
- Livelihoods: Programs that seek to improve the economic well-being and self-reliance of new refugee and migrant arrivals. Proposed activities may include, but are not limited to, entrepreneurship and vocational training to develop marketable professional skills and provision of professional tool sets.
- Protection-Gender-Based Violence (GBV): Programs that respond to the immediate and lifesaving needs of at-risk women, girls, and other people who are most susceptible to, and survivors of, GBV through direct provision of and/or assistance to access healthcare, psychosocial support, case management, and/or legal services.
- Protection-Legal: Programs that mobilize legal resources to provide direct client services and advocate for populations of concern.
- Shelter: Programs that address in-transit and short-term shelter needs and/or sustainable housing for populations of concern with longer term needs and strive to enable them to live in dignity in secure, habitable, and appropriate shelters that allow them to resume critical social and livelihoods activities and improve their quality of life.
- Guatemala
- Education: Programs that aim to restore and maintain access to safe and quality education during humanitarian crises and to support out-of-school children to quickly enter or return to quality learning opportunities, ideally through existing national education systems. Activities should be accessible to and inclusive of children with different types of disabilities and be gender-inclusive and sensitive.
- Protection-GBV: Programs that respond to the immediate and lifesaving needs of at-risk women, girls, and other people who are most susceptible to, and survivors of, GBV through direct provision of and/or assistance to access healthcare, psychosocial support, case management, and/or legal services.
- Protection-Legal: Programs that mobilize legal resources to provide direct client services and advocate for populations in need of international protection.
- Mexico
- Child Protection: Programs designed to assist unaccompanied and separated children and adolescents, as well as vulnerable families, through psychosocial support, family reunification, legal assistance, social integration activities, and alternative care based on international guidelines.
- Health/MHPSS: Programs that seek to extend healthcare provision beyond emergency “first aid” to the provision of primary and secondary care, paying close attention to removing barriers to care for refugees and migrants in transit and those without regular status or documentation.
- Protection-GBV: Programs that respond to the immediate and lifesaving needs of at-risk women, girls, and other people who are most susceptible to, and survivors of, GBV through direct provision of and/or assistance to access healthcare, psychosocial support, case management, and/or legal services.
- Panama
- Core Relief: Items Assistance that enables participants to meet their basic needs through cash, in-kind, or voucher assistance to procure standard, life-sustaining items such as mattresses, blankets, containers for water, cooking utensils, and hygiene kits.
- Health/MHPSS: Programs that seek to extend healthcare provision beyond emergency “first aid” to the provision of primary and secondary care, paying close attention to removing barriers to care for refugees and migrants in transit and those without regular status or documentation.
- Nutrition/Food Security: Programs that provide special nutritional products to safeguard and improve the nutritional status of affected refugees and migrants in transit, especially support for adequate nutrition for infants, young children, and their mothers, through in-kind or voucher assistance.
- Protection-GBV: Programs that respond to the immediate and lifesaving needs of at-risk women, girls, and other people who are most susceptible to, and/or survivors of, GBV through direct provision of and/or assistance to access health, psychosocial support, case management, and/or legal services.
- Protection-Legal: Programs that mobilize legal resources to provide direct client services and advocate for populations in need of international protection.
- WASH: Programs that aim to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by diseases related to water, sanitation, and hygiene. WASH programs should consider the Sphere minimum standards, with an overall goal of preventing mortality and morbidity among populations of concern.
Funding Information
- Duration of Activity: Only program plans for three years will be considered.
- Period of Performance: Only program periods of performance of one year (12 month) cycles for three years (36 months) will be considered
- These funding ceilings and floors apply to all four countries of this NOFO.
- Funding floor per year (lowest $ value): $750,000 per year
- Funding ceiling per year (highest $ value): $1,500,000 per year Note: Funding ceilings and floors pertain to the PRM cost per year
- Anticipated Number of Awards: PRM anticipates, but makes no guarantee, to fund as many as 6 awards through this announcement.
- Anticipated Amount to be Awarded Total: PRM anticipates, but makes no guarantee, to award between 4 and 6 projects through this NOFO, to include, tentatively, 1 to 2 projects per country.
Geographic Regions / Populations
- Proposed activities must primarily support refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable migrants in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, or Mexico.
- Only single country proposals will be considered. Proposals that place women and girls at the center of program design and implementation, while addressing the needs of all genders under the specified sectors, shall be prioritized for funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
- International Organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.