Deadline: 28 June 2019

The U.S. Embassy in Skopje, Public Affairs Section (PAS) is currently inviting U.S. and North-Macedonia-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations to develop and implement CVE related projects in the Republic of North Macedonia and/or the region.

Countering violent extremism (CVE) is a key pillar of a comprehensive and sustainable counterterrorism strategy. CVE refers to actions intended to reduce the ability of violent extremists to radicalize, recruit, and mobilize followers to violence and to change the conditions that are conducive to the spread of violent extremist recruitment and radicalization of individuals or communities. CVE programming must be intentionally focused on violent extremism – and should focus particularly on preventing and/or intervening in radicalization and recruitment to violence.

This CVE grant program will support projects and activities that prevent recruitment or radicalization to violence by interrupting those efforts, building community-level resilience to them, and identifying the early signs of radicalization to violence and providing appropriate interventions through civic organizations, law enforcement, educational programs, or other entities. Community resilience in the CVE context means those communities where violent extremists routinely meet disinterest and opposition, recruitment attempts routinely fail, and communities know what tools and support are available to assist individuals that may be on a path towards violence.

The U.S. Embassy seeks CVE program proposals that will develop new efforts and expand existing efforts at the community level to counter violent extremist recruitment and radicalization to violence by funding activities that enhance the resilience of communities being targeted by violent extremists for recruitment, provide alternatives to individuals who have started down a road to violent extremism, and that create or amplify alternative messages to terrorist/violent extremist recruitment and radicalization efforts.

Program Priorities

• Developing resilience.
• Training and engaging with community members.
• Managing intervention activities.
• Challenging the narrative.
• Building capacity of community-level non-profit organizations active in CVE.

Award Information

• Estimated Total Program Funding: $100,000
• Award Ceiling: $50,000
• Award Floor: $25,000

Criteria

The application should:

• Address how the project will contribute to the priorities listed above.
• Enumerate specific outputs and outcomes to be achieved by the end of the grant period.
• Describe American content and/or involvement in the project.
• Clearly specify the audiences to be reached and the geographic locations of program activities, and proposed programs in multiple locations, should explain how that will be accomplished.
• Explain how programs and activities will be monitored and evaluated.
• Describe how elements of the project will have a multiplier effect or be sustainable beyond the life of the grant.
• 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.

Eligible Applicants

• Eligibility is limited to U.S. and North-Macedonia-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations.
• For-profit organizations are not eligible to apply.

How to Apply

Applicants must download the application form available on the given website.

For more information, please visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=315936