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Request for Concept Notes: Global Protection Programs 2025

Deadline: 28-Feb-25

The Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration is seeking applications for the Global Protection Programs to advance humanitarian protection for refugees, asylum seekers, and/or stateless persons.

Focus Areas
  • Proposed program concept notes must align with one or more of the following program areas:
    • Humanitarian Protection and Assistance
    • Interim and Durable Solutions
    • Humanitarian Diplomacy
Themes
  • Concept notes can address general humanitarian protection or focus on the following specific protection themes:
    • Persons with disabilities
    • Stateless persons
    • LGBTQI+ persons
    • Older persons
    • Child protection
    • Mental health and psychosocial support
Types of Sectors
  • Concept notes must focus on one or more of the following programmatic sectors:
    • Capacity Strengthening
      • Capacity Strengthening: NGO/CBO
      • Capacity Strengthening: Local Governments
    • Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities
    • Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
    • Protection
      • Protection: Legal
      • Protection: Child Protection
      • Protection: Socio-cultural Inclusion and Social Cohesion
Funding Information
  • Funding ceiling per year (highest $ value): $750,000 per year
  • Funding floor per year (lowest $ value): $200,000 per year
  • Program plans for one or two years will be considered.
  • Programs period of performance of 12 or 24 months will be considered.
Eligible Activities
  • Concept notes can include activities that advance protection through:
    • Strengthening capacity
    • Advocacy
    • Creating and sharing best practice and tools
    • Coordination
    • Other activities that promote humanitarian protection are also welcome. Proposed activities must have relatively broad impact on humanitarian responses and show clear, positive outcomes at the field level. PRM will not consider concept notes focused on a single country or those without global impact.
Ineligible Activities
  • Recipients should anticipate that PRM will undertake the following list of non-exhaustive activities:
    • Provide overall policy guidance and program direction.
    • Review and comment on proposed budgets, proposed changes or revisions to the project.
    • Periodically monitor and evaluate the performance of the proposed project, including review of required program and financial reporting documents.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (U.S.-based NGOs must be able to demonstrate proof of non-profit tax status).
  • Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (overseas-based NGOs must be able to demonstrate proof of registration in country of domicile); and
  • International Organizations. International multilateral organizations, such as United Nations agencies, should not submit concept notes through Grants.gov in response to this Notice of Funding Opportunity. Multilateral organizations that are seeking funding for programs relevant to this announcement should contact the PRM Program Officer (as listed below) on or before the closing date of this announcement.
  • Private, Public, and State controlled institutions of higher education.
Application Requirements
  • Content and Form of Application:
    • Organizations can submit a maximum of one concept note per protection theme. Concept notes may address multiple themes, but the organization may not include those themes in any other concept notes submitted. Any additional submissions will be disqualified. Applicants must clearly specify the protection theme(s) in their concept note. PRM recommends inserting the protection theme(s) in the recommended concept note template’s “Proposed Activity Sector/Modalities(s)” section. Submissions by organizations as part of a consortium do not count toward an individual organization’s submission limit.
    • Concept note narratives must not exceed 4 pages (or 5 pages for consortia submissions). Submit concept notes in Adobe PDF, using Times New Roman or Calibri, 12-point font, letter sized paper with one-inch margins. Submit budget documents as Excel files. PRM will strictly enforce page limits and will not review pages beyond the stated limit, which may negatively impact the concept note’s score.
    • All documents must be in English and should avoid the use of jargon and spell out acronyms upon first use.
  • Include the following categories in your concept note narratives, in any arrangement:
    • Brief problem statement, description of target population with anticipated participant numbers, and vulnerability criteria used to identify participants or the target population.
    • Program description, location, and duration.
    • Proposed measurable outcomes and impact of the program.
    • Summary of the organization(s) and experience doing similar work.
    • Organizational point(s) of contact.
  • A one-page Budget Summary in Excel format. Attach the Budget Summary under the “budget narrative”:
    • The Budget Summary does not count against the 4-page limit (or 5 pages for consortia submissions). The budget summary is separate from SF-424, SF-F24A, and SF-424B documents, which are also required and do not fall within the page limit.
    • The Budget summary must include the following categories, disaggregated by year:
      • Personnel allowances
      • Benefits
      • Travel
      • Program equipment
      • Supplies
      • Contractual
      • Construction
      • Other direct costs
      • Indirect costs
      • There should be no attachments, other than the budget summary (Excel) and SF-424 documents, to the concept note submission.

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