Deadline: 14-Aug-20
The U.S. Embassy Dushanbe Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State has announced that funding is available through the Embassy’s Environmental Awareness and Action Campaign.
This program seeks to raise awareness about significant threats to the environment in Tajikistan and promote civic action to help address these problems.
This program supports environmental protection and community activism to preserve Tajikistan’s natural beauty, promote economic development through the tourism sector, and protect the health and security of the population.
Priority Themes
- Air and Water Pollution:
- Air and water pollution have become increasingly serious and dangerous problems for the health of Tajikistan’s population and wildlife, which in turn threatens agriculture, food security, the tourism industry, and the overall economy. Even though Dushanbe has the most consistently polluted air in Central Asia, few residents are aware of this issue, and even fewer take precautionary measures to protect themselves and their children’s health. Water pollution also leads to health problems – directly through drinking contaminated water and indirectly by eating fish or other animals that contain harmful substances present in the water.
- Goal: Raise public awareness about air and water pollution in Tajikistan, their harmful effects, and what measures can be implemented to address the problems.
- Waste Management:
- Waste management includes recycling, proper isolation of harmful waste (such as batteries, chemicals, and other toxic substances), reduction of waste through government and private sector measures, efficient collection and storage of waste, and enforcement of policies on littering and unauthorized waste disposal. Tajikistan lacks recycling facilities and also suffers from a relatively high level of waste in natural areas, damaging local habitats for wildlife, contaminating water supplies, and reducing the appeal of Tajikistan as a destination for tourists.
- Goal: Raise public awareness about waste management problems in Tajikistan, their harmful effects, and what measures can be implemented to address the problems.
Every Grant Proposal must:
- Clearly indicate the grant priority area to which it is being submitted for consideration;
- Clearly identify the problem that the proposed award will address components of the problem that needs to be addressed.
- Identify the key audiences specified in the areas (i.e., women, youth, etc.), and note key geographic areas and other indicators of focus populations that the award will reach;
- Clearly identify what programmatic success looks like.
- Clearly delineate long-term outcomes, or how elements of the program will have a multiplier effect and/or have a larger impact beyond the life of the grant;
- Identify specific, realistic short-term outcomes to be achieved by the end of the grant period;
- Provide a plan for how and when the award will track program outcomes, including social media outreach and monitoring, where applicable;
- Provide an approximate funding amount. All applicants must demonstrate competency to manage all financial and oversight aspects of the project, including participant costs and transparent arrangements of sub-grant relationships with partner organizations, if applicable.
Funding Information
- Floor of Individual Award Amounts: $5,000
- Ceiling of Individual Award Amounts: $25,000
- Anticipated period of performance: 9-12 months
Projects NOT authorized for funding include:
- projects that support partisan political activity
- conferences abroad or individual trips abroad
- fundraising campaigns ·
- art or cultural projects
- projects that duplicate existing projects
- construction projects or projects that consist of infrastructure that is not sustainable
- projects that will last longer than 12 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State bodies are encouraged to work with NGOs to submit applications.
- American or other donor country organizations or individuals are not eligible for grants under this program.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=328119