Deadline: 31 July 2017
The United States Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, is seeking applications from qualified NGOs to implement a program entitled “Advancing Justice Reform in Argentina” to develop and implement programs that materially advance one or more of the Justice 2020 pillars and reinforce the three principal tenets of access, modernization, and transparency.
Justice 2020 has three fundamental tenets:
- Serving the Citizenry facilitates access to justice, protects victims and those most vulnerable, and supports alternative resolutions
- Modernization promotes technology and simplified organizational structures to make justice more efficient
- Transparency and Independence implements Open Government Partnership principals in the Justice Ministry, reforms the composition and procedures of the Magistrates’ Council and other justice institutions, and installs “open justice” principles throughout the judicial system
Project Components
- Institutional: Support judicial independence, address corruption, and promote ethics and transparency in the formal judicial system.
- Criminal: Promote effective criminal policy and rapid, transparent, fair and effective criminal proceedings as well as rehabilitation of convicted offenders and alternatives to incarceration.
- Access to Justice: Create a broad and balanced territorial coverage of access to justice throughout the country for both men and women through the establishment of Centers for Access to Justice, and bolster legal aid support centers and the provision of local free legal advice locally in coordination with local governments.
- Human Rights: Uphold the rights of indigenous people and members of vulnerable groups within the criminal justice system; further policies that promote equal opportunity and eliminate discrimination; and promote dialogue and international and intercultural cooperation on criminal justice issues.
- Justice and Community: Integrate communities in the process of reforming the justice system. This may also include strengthening the government’s relationship with academic communities, professional associations and civil society organizations.
Funding Information
Estimated Total Program Funding:
- Award Ceiling: $200,000
- Award Floor: $50,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Argentine civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
- Applicants should note that the following criteria:
- serves as a standard against which all proposals will be evaluated,
- serves to identify the significant matters that should be addressed in all proposals.
- The USG will award this grant to the applicant whose proposal represents the best value to the USG on the basis of technical merit and cost.
- Each application will be evaluated by a selection committee of U.S. Embassy Buenos Aires employees and other selected disinterested parties.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit Grants.gov.