Deadline: 7 November 2016
The Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) leads the United States’ global engagement on the fight against human trafficking and seeks partnerships with foreign governments, civil society, and multilateral organizations to combat modern slavery through the “3P” paradigm: prosecuting traffickers, preventing trafficking in persons, and protecting trafficking victims.
Funding Information: Any grant requested must fall between $200,000 to $1,500,000.
Objectives
For Africa
- Rwanda – Tier 2 WL: Systematize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases by governments
- Cote d’Ivoire – Tier 2 WL: Develop and strengthen effective anti-TIP legal and policy frameworks
- Systematize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases by governments
- Zimbabwe– Tier 3: Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Increase awareness of TIP issues and risk factors among target populations
- Institutionalize National TIP Referral Mechanisms between state actors and civil society
- SADC Regional (Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe): Develop and strengthen effective anti-TIP legal and policy frameworks
- Niger – Tier 2 WL: Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Build effective TIP data collection and reporting mechanisms
- Djibouti – Tier 3: Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Systematize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases by governments
- Increase awareness of TIP issues and risk factors among target populations.
- Zambia– Tier 2: Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Increase awareness of TIP issues and risk factors among target populations
- Lesotho– Tier 2: Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
East Asia and Pacific
- Regional Project: Malaysia (Tier 2 Watch List) & Indonesia (Tier 2): Build effective TIP data collection and reporting mechanisms
- Papua New Guinea (Tier 3): Systematize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases by governments
- Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
Europe and Eurasia
- Balkans – Regional (Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia): Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Increase awareness among vulnerable populations of TIP risk factors
- Serbia (Tier 2 WL): Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Bulgaria (Tier 2 WL): Systematize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases by governments
- Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
Near East
- Tunisia (Tier 2 Watch List): Develop and strengthen anti-TIP legal and policy frameworks.
- Systematize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases.
- Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking.
- Lebanon (Tier 2): Increase awareness of TIP issues and risk factors among target
- Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Egypt (Tier 2): Increase awareness of TIP issues among target populations
- Morocco (Tier 2): Systematize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases by the government.
South and Central Asia
- Sri Lanka (Tier 2 Watch List): Systematize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases by the government
- Create local, national, and regional networks empowered to combat TIP
- Build effective TIP data collection and reporting mechanisms
- Uzbekistan (Tier 3): Increase awareness of TIP issues and risk factors among target
- Create local, national, and regional networks empowered to combat TIP
- Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Maldives (Tier 2 Watch List): Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Develop and strengthen anti-TIP legal and policy frameworks
- Institutionalize National TIP Referral Mechanisms between state actors and civil society
Western Hemisphere
- Southern Mexico and Northern Triangle (Tier 2): Develop and strengthen effective anti-TIP legal and policy frameworks
- Institutionalize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases by governments
- Create local, national, and regional networks empowered to combat TIP
- Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Brazil (Tier 2): Develop and strengthen effective anti-TIP legal and policy frameworks
- Institutionalize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases
- Suriname (Tier 3): Institutionalize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases
- Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
- Dominican Republic (Tier 2): Institutionalize victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases
- Improve comprehensive services for victims of trafficking
Eligibility Criteria
- Unrestricted
- Organizations eligible to apply include U.S.-based and foreign non-profits, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), for-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, and public international organizations (PIOs).
- For-profit organizations are not permitted to generate profits from grant-funded activities.
- U.S. government agencies are also eligible to apply. While foreign governments are not eligible to apply, governments may be beneficiaries of programs provided that funding does not pay salaries of government agency personnel and that such assistance is not restricted by U.S. law or policy.
- Organizations currently receiving funds from the TIP Office may apply for additional funding under this solicitation.
- The eligibility requirements for applying to this solicitation do not restrict applicants from receiving other sources of funding from the United States government, including funding from other bureaus within the Department of State. However, related U.S. Government programming must be identified by the applicant.
- Applicants should demonstrate experience administering successful projects— preferably in human trafficking or related areas and in the identified country or sub-region.
How to Apply
Applicants can find application forms, kits, or other materials needed to apply at the address given on the website.
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