Deadline: 29-Jul-20
Winrock International, through the USAID-funded Safe Migration in Central Asia project, calls on prospective organizations interested in supporting one or more of the following objectives in Kyrgyzstan:
- Objective 1: Conduct awareness raising for at-risk population on safe migration and TIP with a focus on youth to promote activism and behavior change that will reduce the number of youths exposed to illegal labor migration and TIP.
- Objective 2: Promote better and more effective communication between migrants (including migrants abroad, returned migrants due to the COVID-19, potential migrants) and government migration agencies, private employment agencies, and civil society organizations.
- Objective 3: Provide direct assistance to victims of TIP and/or migrants (including migrants abroad and those returned due to COVID-19) by providing services such as legal, social, medical, employment referral, or psychological assistance.
Funding Information
- The total amount awarded will depend on the activities proposed, number of districts covered, time frame proposed and estimated actual cost of implementation of the grant. Applicants are encouraged to propose realistic budgets based on actual costs of salaries, fringe and/or benefit structure, travel, procurement, and other operating expenses. A budget template is included as Annex B to be used for this purpose. The final amount awarded per objective will depend on agreed partner activities but will not exceed $50,000 USD.
- Contingent on USAID approval, the anticipated period of performance for subgrants is up to 24 months. The performance phase of subgrants may be less than 24 months but should not exceed it.
Eligibility Criteria
This solicitation is open to all organizations including non-profit and for-profit non-US organizations. To be minimally eligible for funding, applicants must comply with the following conditions:
- Be legally registered or otherwise authorized to operate in the applicant’s country or countries of operation.
- Agree to be subject to a pre-award capacity assessment carried out by Winrock staff to determine that the applicant has sound management in the form of financial, administrative, and technical policies and procedures.
- Be able to demonstrate successful past performance in TIP program development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation-preferably at subnational level. Past performance should be in at least one of the following areas: raising awareness; promoting gender equity; building the capacity of government or local stakeholders, including training on program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
- Demonstrate capacity and be willing to enter a contractual arrangement with Winrock International to work together towards fulfilling the objectives of the SMICA project.
For more information, visit https://www.winrock.org/safe-migration-in-central-asia-6920-rfa-04/