Deadline: 15 May 2020
The U.S. Embassy in Lome-Togo through this Notice of Funding Opportunity is pleased to announce an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to build collaboration, trust, and reporting mechanisms between citizens and civilian government officials and institutions, including, but not limited to, law enforcement.
This program aims at promoting the use of soft approaches (non-security and non-kinetic means) to preventing violent extremism in Togo through local P/CVE committees that will use discourse and actions to address the drivers of violent extremism in a multidisciplinary manner, taking into account input from a wide range of government actors (e.g. law enforcement, security forces, and related ministries), non-governmental actors (e.g. local communities; youth; women; religious, cultural and educational leaders; civil society organizations; and the media), and the private sector.
Priority Areas
Programs/Activities should support the following ICS goal:
- Promote Peace and Security
Participants and Audiences
This program focuses on Government of Togo, Law practitioners, non-governmental organizations, Security forces, Youth and religious leaders and Local Community stakeholders.
Funding Information
- Award amounts: $300,000.00
- Total available funding: $300,000.00
- Length of performance period: 3 years
Eligibility Criteria
- The Public Affairs Section encourages applications from U.S. and Togo as follows:
- Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/nongovernmental organizations with programming experience
- Individuals
- Non-profit or governmental educational institutions
- Governmental institutions
- For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.
Please ensure:
- The proposal clearly addresses the goals and objectives of this funding opportunity
- All documents are in English
- All budgets are in U.S. dollars
- All pages are numbered
- All documents are formatted to 8 ½ x 11 paper, and
- All Microsoft Word documents are single-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, with a minimum of 1-inch margins.
For more information, visit https://tg.usembassy.gov/embassy/funding-opportunities/notice-of-funding-opportunity-building-national-resilience-in-a-context-of-sub-regional-insecurity/
