Deadline: 17-Jan-2025

The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) seeks concept notes focusing on various sectors such as education, health, protection and WASH.

Program Area

• Proposed program concept notes must align with one or more of the following program areas:
  • Humanitarian Protection and Assistance
  • Interim and Durable Solutions

Program Sectors and Modalities

• Health programs include basic health services and may also include:
  • Maternal and child health;
  • Mental health and psychosocial support;
  • Sexual and reproductive health;
  • Vector control and disease prevention; and
  • Nutrition.
• Protection programs may include but are not necessarily limited to:
  • Legal protection
  • GBV prevention and response
  • Child protection
  • Socio-cultural inclusion and social cohesion
• Economic empowerment programs may include, but is not limited to:
  • Increasing access to finance for refugees or refugee-owned businesses;
  • Building capacity of refugees and host communities for market-based entrepreneurship and employment;
  • Developing and implementing awareness or advocacy campaigns in collaboration with the government to enact policies facilitating refugee inclusion;
  • Supporting refugees and private sector stakeholders to understand and navigate regulatory frameworks and bureaucratic procedures.

Funding Information

• Funding floor per year (lowest $ value): $500,000
• Funding ceiling per year (highest $ value): $2,000,000
• Funding ceiling for health-care proposals (highest $ value): $5,000,000

Duration

• Programs period of performance of 12 or 24 months will be considered.

Geographic Regions 

• Concept note activities should mainly support refugee populations in Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan.

Eligibility Criteria

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education (U.S.-based NGOs must be able to demonstrate proof of non-profit tax status).
• Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education (overseas-based NGOs must be able to demonstrate proof of registration in country of domicile); and
• International Organizations. International multilateral organizations, such as United Nations agencies are eligible to apply

For more information, visit Grants.gov.