Deadline: 5-Dec-22
The Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) announces an open competition for a prevalence study in support of a forthcoming Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership between the United States and the Government of Côte d’Ivoire.
CPC Partnerships are jointly developed and implemented by the United States and a partner country through a multi-year plan (at least five years). Their purpose is to strengthen the efforts of the partner country government and civil society organizations to prevent child trafficking; effectively investigate, prosecute, and convict perpetrators of child trafficking; proactively identify, protect, and provide comprehensive, traumainformed care for child victims; and create an enabling environment to promote effective collaboration to prevent child trafficking.
The overall goal of CPC Partnerships is for partner governments at all levels and civil society organizations to work in concert to combat child trafficking by employing a multi-sectoral, victim-centered approach that addresses targeted risk factors, ensures comprehensive victim protection, and investigates, prosecutes, and convicts child traffickers.
Objectives
- Objective 1 (Prevention): There is widespread awareness and understanding of child trafficking crimes in targeted communities; stakeholders in government, civil society, and communities understand and address the key factors leading to child trafficking; and families and individuals are stable and resilient to vulnerabilities that can lead to child trafficking.
- Objective 2 (Protection): Child trafficking victims are identified and referred to care through a multi-sectoral, clear, and well understood mechanism. Care is available and readily accessible to child trafficking victims. The mechanism and subsequent care are child-friendly, victim-centered, and trauma-informed.
- Objective 3 (Prosecution): According to their respective roles, justice sector actors can apply anti-trafficking laws to identify and investigate cases of child trafficking in child-friendly, victim-centered, and trauma-informed manners as well as use evidence to build successful cases against perpetrators, leading to convictions.
- Objective 4 (Partnership): Partnerships, cooperation, and coordination are flourishing across multiple sectors and actors involving child trafficking, including, but not limited to: across government agencies; government and civil society; child trafficking victims and justice sector actors; government, communities, and civil society; and governments and their foreign counterparts when foreign child victims are involved.
Part of the U.S.-Cote d’Ivoire CPC Partnership will include a prevalence study not only to help inform programmatic interventions, but also to assist the Government of Cote d’Ivoire in crafting future action plans, campaign, resources allocations, etc.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Award Floor: $700,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations eligible to apply include U.S.-based and foreign non-profits, nongovernmental organizations (including faith-based organizations), public international organizations (PIOs), institutions of higher education, and for-profit entities. Applications submitted by for-profit entities may be subject to additional review following the panel selection process. Additionally, the Department of State prohibits profit to for-profit or commercial organizations under its assistance awards. Profit is defined as any amount in excess of allowable direct and indirect costs. The allowability of costs incurred by commercial organizations is determined in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) at 48 CFR 30, Cost Accounting Standards Administration, and 48 CFR 31 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures.
- 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.
- The eligibility requirements for applying to this funding opportunity 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, the applicant must provide information on any work conducted with U.S. government funding related to human-trafficking issues or cross-cutting (e.g., child protection, health, education, labor, gender, etc.) human-trafficking issues within the project narrative.
- Applicants should have existing active partnerships with thematic or in-country partners, entities, and relevant stakeholders, including government interlocutors, private sector actors, and local civil society organizations and/or non-governmental organizations. Applicants should have demonstrable experience in administering successful prevalence studies, preferably in child trafficking or related areas in West Africa or specifically in Cote d’Ivoire. The TIP Office reserves the right to request additional background information on applicants that do not have previous experience administering federal grant awards, and these applicants may be subject to limited funding on a pilot basis.
- Under this funding opportunity, applicants may form a consortia and partner with other organizations to implement the prevalence study. Applicants partnering with other organizations must clearly identify the lead applicant, and the applicant may designate one or more partner organizations as sub-recipients. For the purposes of this funding opportunity, a partner organization is any organization that would receive sub-award funding from a successful applicant to help the applicant organization implement anti-trafficking projects. All mandatory terms and conditions for a successful applicant also apply to any sub-awards awarded.
- The TIP Office is committed to an anti-discrimination policy in all its projects and activities. The TIP Office welcomes applications irrespective of race, ethnicity, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or other status.
- The TIP Office encourages proposals that advance racial equity and support and promote equitable representation of underserved communities.
- The TIP Office encourages applications from the following entities:
- U.S.-based and Foreign-based Non-Profit
- For-Profit Organization
- Institution of Higher Education
- Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
- Public International Organization (PIO)
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343969