United States Division of State
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL)
Discover of Funding Alternative (NOFO):
DRL: Bolstering the Power and Credibility of Libyan Civil Society
That is the announcement of funding alternative quantity SFOP0009367
Catalog of Federal Home Help Quantity: 19.345
Kind of Solicitation: Open Competitors
Utility Deadline: 11:59 PM EST on 1 Could, 2023
Complete Funding Ground: $750,000
Complete Funding Ceiling: $2,500,000
Anticipated Variety of Awards: 2-3
Kind of Award: Grant, Cooperative Settlement
Interval of Efficiency: 24-36 months
Anticipated Time to Award, Pending Availability of Funds: 6-9 months
A. Undertaking Description
The U.S. Division of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) publicizes an open competitors for proposals that improve protections for civil society, human rights defenders, and journalists in order that they will function securely and freely.
DRL’s objective is to empower and defend human rights defenders, journalists, and civil society organizations in Libya. DRL goals to make sure that Libyan civil society and human rights defenders are in a position to safely function and be seen as important avenues of knowledge representing problems with public significance in Libya.
Proposals should tackle one or each of the next program focus areas:
Bolstering Help and Resiliency for Libyan Civil Society (to not exceed $1,000,000): Packages ought to allow Libyan civil society to interact on human rights points safely and successfully. Potential program approaches might embrace:
- Offering CSOs efficient entry to multi-sectoral providers that improve their operational safety and resilience, together with digital, bodily, and psychosocial safety sources, help mechanisms, and authorized help.
- Constructing the capability of CSOs to extra impactfully advocate with key authorities and worldwide stakeholders.
- Fostering partnerships between CSOs, nascent or casual organizations, human rights actors, and the communities they symbolize to assist establish key points, wants, and issues and kind consensus on priorities and sources.
- Selling coalition and community constructing efforts amongst CSOs throughout all areas of Libya on rights-related points.
- Supporting CSOs to bolster insurance policies and laws that safeguard civic area and basic freedoms, together with efforts to watch and report on violations.
Strengthening Credibility for Libyan Civil Society (to not exceed $1,500,000): Packages ought to search to curb on-line harassment concentrating on Libyan civil society and strengthen the credibility of CSOs as a necessary avenue of knowledge on and illustration of problems with public significance in Libya. Program approaches might embrace:
- Strengthening public belief in top quality data produced by impartial Libyan civil society and media.
- Supporting CSOs to lift consciousness about disinformation, together with its origins, identification, and potential damaging results significantly highlighting the hurt it brings to underserved teams.
- Selling CSOs to guide fact-based and human rights-centered reporting and digital media literacy packages that deter on-line harassment of CSOs and human rights actors.
- Offering CSOs and human rights actors with instruments and sources to counter disinformation, hate speech and on-line harassment campaigns that impedes their skill to function and interact with the communities they search to symbolize and entry.
Proposals may additionally mix these approaches or components (to not exceed $2,500,000).
Please word that every one proposed program goals should have their main scope and affect inside Libya. Working with native Libyan companions, together with substantive engagement of Libyan civil society organizations in this system’s design and implementation, must be a central side of any proposed program.
All packages ought to purpose to have affect that results in reforms and have the potential for sustainability past DRL sources. DRL’s desire is to keep away from duplicating previous efforts by supporting new and artistic approaches. This doesn’t exclude from consideration tasks that enhance upon or broaden present profitable tasks in a brand new and complementary means.
DRL is dedicated to advancing fairness and help for underserved and underrepresented communities. In accordance with the Govt Order on Advancing Racial Fairness and Underserved Communities, packages ought to implement methods for integration and inclusion of people/organizations/beneficiaries that may deliver views based mostly on their faith, intercourse, incapacity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identification, gender expression, intercourse traits, nationwide origin, age, genetic data, marital standing, parental standing, being pregnant, political affiliation, or veteran’s standing. Packages must be demand-driven and domestically led to the extent potential.
DRL requires all packages to be non-discriminatory and expects implementers to incorporate methods for nondiscrimination of people/organizations/beneficiaries based mostly on race, coloration, faith, intercourse, gender identification, gender expression, intercourse traits, sexual orientation, being pregnant, nationwide origin, incapacity, age, genetic data, marital standing, parental standing, political affiliation, or veteran’s standing. Proposal approaches ought to particularly heart on supporting underserved and marginalized communities in Libya. This will likely embrace, ladies, residents of South Libya, indigenous communities together with Amazigh, Tuareg, and Tebu peoples, migrants, asylum seekers, internally displaced individuals, and/or LGBTQI+ figuring out individuals.
The place applicable, aggressive proposals might embrace:
- Alternatives for beneficiaries to use their new data and abilities in sensible efforts;
- Solicitation of suggestions and ideas from beneficiaries when creating actions in an effort to strengthen the sustainability of packages and participant possession of mission outcomes;
- Enter from individuals on sustainability plans and systematic assessment of the plans all through the lifetime of the mission, with changes made as essential;
- Inclusion of weak populations;
- Joint identification and definition of key ideas with related stakeholders and stakeholder enter into mission actions;
- Systematic comply with up with beneficiaries at particular intervals after the completion of actions to trace how beneficiaries are retaining new data in addition to making use of their new abilities.
Actions which are not sometimes allowed embrace, however should not restricted to:
- The supply of humanitarian help;
- English language instruction;
- Growth of high-tech pc or communications software program and/or {hardware};
- Purely tutorial exchanges or fellowships;
- Exterior exchanges or fellowships lasting longer than six months;
- Off-shore actions that aren’t clearly linked to in-country initiatives and affect or should not essential per safety issues;
- Theoretical explorations of human rights or democracy points, together with tasks aimed primarily at analysis and analysis that don’t incorporate coaching or capacity-building for native civil society;
- Micro-loans or comparable small enterprise improvement initiatives;
- Initiatives directed in the direction of a diaspora group moderately than present residents of focused international locations.
This discover is topic to availability of funding.
B. Federal Award Info
Main organizations can submit two purposes in response to the NOFO. If an applicant chooses to submit a number of purposes to this NOFO, it’s the accountability of the applicant to reveal the competitiveness and uniqueness of every utility.
The U.S. authorities might: (a) reject all or any purposes, (b) settle for aside from the bottom price utility, (c) settle for a couple of utility, and (d) waive irregularities in purposes obtained.
The U.S. authorities might make award(s) on the premise of preliminary purposes obtained, with out discussions or negotiations. Subsequently, every preliminary utility ought to include the applicant’s finest phrases from a value and technical standpoint. The U.S. authorities reserves the proper (although it’s underneath no obligation to take action), nevertheless, to enter into discussions with a number of candidates in an effort to receive clarifications, further element, or to counsel refinements within the mission description, finances, or different elements of an utility.
DRL anticipates awarding both a grant or cooperative settlement relying on the wants and threat elements of this system. The ultimate willpower on award mechanism might be made by the Grants Officer. The excellence between grants and cooperative agreements revolves across the existence of “substantial involvement.” Cooperative agreements require larger Federal authorities participation within the mission. If a cooperative settlement is awarded, DRL will undertake affordable and programmatically essential substantial involvement. Examples of considerable involvement can embrace, however should not restricted to:
- Energetic participation or collaboration with the recipient within the implementation of the award;
- Overview and approval of 1 stage of labor earlier than one other can start;
- Overview and approval of substantive provisions of proposed sub-awards or contracts past present Federal coverage;
- Approval of the recipient’s finances or plan of labor previous to the award.
The authority for this funding alternative is discovered within the International Help Act of 1961, as amended (FAA).
To maximise the affect and sustainability of the award(s) that outcome from this NOFO, DRL retains the proper to execute non-competitive continuation modification(s). The whole period of any award, together with potential non-competitive continuation amendments, shall not exceed 54 months, or 4 and a half years. Any non-competitive continuation is contingent on efficiency and pending availability of funds. A non-competitive continuation shouldn’t be assured, and the Division of State reserves the proper to train or to not train this selection.
C. Eligibility Info
For utility data, please see the proposal submission directions (PSI), up to date December 2022 on our web site.
C.1 Eligible Candidates
DRL welcomes purposes from U.S.-based and foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and public worldwide organizations; personal, public, or state establishments of upper schooling; and for-profit organizations or companies. DRL’s desire is to work with non-profit entities; nevertheless, there could also be some events when a for-profit entity is finest suited.
Purposes submitted by for-profit entities could also be topic to further assessment following the panel choice course of. Moreover, the Division of State prohibits revenue to for-profit or industrial organizations underneath its help awards. Revenue is outlined as any quantity in extra of allowable direct and oblique prices. The allowability of prices incurred by industrial organizations is decided in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) at 48 CFR 30, Value Accounting Requirements Administration, and 48 CFR 31 Contract Value Rules and Procedures.
Please see 2 CFR 200.307 for laws relating to program earnings.
C.2 Value Sharing or Matching
Offering price sharing, matching, or price participation shouldn’t be an eligibility issue or requirement for this NOFO and offering price share is not going to lead to a extra favorable aggressive rating.
C.3 Different
Candidates ought to have present, or the capability to develop, lively partnerships with thematic or in-country companions, entities, and related stakeholders, together with personal sector companions and NGOs, and have demonstrable expertise in administering profitable and ideally comparable tasks. DRL encourages purposes from foreign-based NGOs headquartered within the geographic areas/international locations related to this NOFO. Candidates might kind consortia in an effort to deliver collectively organizations with assorted experience to suggest a complete program in a single proposal. Nevertheless, one group must be designated within the proposal because the lead applicant, with the opposite members designated as sub-award companions. DRL reserves the proper to request further background data on candidates that should not have earlier expertise administering federal grant awards, and these candidates could also be topic to restricted funding on a pilot foundation.
DRL is dedicated to an anti-discrimination coverage in all of its packages and actions. DRL welcomes purposes no matter race, ethnicity, coloration, creed, nationwide origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, incapacity, or different standing. DRL seeks purposes that reveal that the recipient doesn’t discriminate in opposition to any beneficiaries in implementation of a possible award, equivalent to, however not restricted to, by withholding, adversely impacting, or denying equitable entry to the advantages offered by way of this award on the premise of any issue not expressly acknowledged within the award. This contains, for instance, race, coloration, faith, intercourse (together with gender identification, gender expression, intercourse traits, sexual orientation, and being pregnant), nationwide origin, incapacity, age, genetic data, marital standing, parental standing, political affiliation, or veteran’s standing. The recipient ought to insert this provision, together with this paragraph, in all sub-grants and contracts underneath a possible award.
Any applicant listed on the Excluded Events Listing System within the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) (www.sam.gov) and/or has a present debt to the U.S. authorities shouldn’t be eligible to use for an help award in accordance with the OMB pointers at 2 CFR 180 that implement Govt Orders 12549 (3 CFR,1986 Comp., p. 189) and 12689 (3 CFR,1989 Comp., p. 235), “Debarment and Suspension.” Moreover, no entity or individual listed on the Excluded Events Listing System in SAM.gov can take part in any actions underneath an award. All candidates are strongly inspired to assessment the Excluded Events Listing System in SAM.gov to make sure that no ineligible entity or individual is included of their utility.
D. Utility and Submission Info
D.1 Tackle to Request Utility Package deal
Candidates can discover utility kinds, kits, or different supplies wanted to use on www.grants.gov and SAMS Home (https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com ) underneath the announcement title “DRL: Bolstering the Power and Credibility of Libyan Civil Society,” funding alternative quantity “SFOP0009367.” Please contact the DRL level of contact listed in Part G if requesting affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities or for safety causes. Please word that affordable lodging don’t embrace deadline extensions.
D.2 Content material and Type of Utility Submission
For all utility paperwork, please guarantee:
- All paperwork are in English and all prices are in U.S. {Dollars}. If an unique doc throughout the utility is in one other language, an English translation should be offered (please word the Division of State, as indicated in 2 CFR 200.111, requires that English is the official language of all award paperwork). If any doc is offered in each English and a international language, the English language model is the controlling model;
- All pages are numbered, together with budgets and attachments;
- All paperwork are formatted to eight ½ x 11 paper; and,
- All paperwork are single-spaced, 12-point Occasions New Roman font, with 1-inch margins. Captions and footnotes could also be 10-point Occasions New Roman font. Font sizes in charts and tables, together with the finances, may be reformatted to suit inside one web page width.
D.2.1 Utility Necessities
Full purposes should embrace the next:
- Accomplished and signed SF-424, SF-424A, and SF-424B Please see SF-424 directions in Part 2B of the PSI.
- Organizations that interact in lobbying the U.S. authorities, together with Congress, or pay for an additional entity to foyer on their behalf, are additionally required to finish the SF-LLL “Disclosure of Lobbying Actions” kind (provided that relevant). Please see SF-LLL steering in Part 2B of the PSI.
- Cowl Web page (to not exceed one (1) web page, ideally as a Phrase Doc) that features a desk with the group title, mission title, goal nation/international locations, mission synopsis, and title and phone data for the appliance’s important level of contact. Please see Cowl Web page Part 2C of the PSI for a template and extra particulars.
- Govt Abstract (to not exceed one (1) web page, ideally as a Phrase Doc) that outlines mission objectives, goals, actions, and many others.
- The Govt Abstract ought to embrace a quick part that explicitly states: (1) the issue assertion addressed by the mission, (2) research-based proof justifying the distinctive mission method, and (3) quantifiable mission outcomes and impacts.
- The Govt Abstract ought to embrace a quick part that explicitly states: (1) the issue assertion addressed by the mission, (2) research-based proof justifying the distinctive mission method, and (3) quantifiable mission outcomes and impacts.
- Desk of Contents (to not exceed one (1) web page, ideally as a Phrase Doc) itemizing all paperwork and attachments with web page numbers.
- Proposal Narrative (to not exceed ten (10) pages, ideally as a Phrase Doc). Please word the ten-page restrict doesn’t embrace the Cowl Web page, Govt Abstract, Desk of Contents, Attachments, Detailed Funds, Funds Narrative, Audit, or NICRA. Candidates are inspired to mix a number of paperwork right into a single Phrase Doc or PDF (i.e. Cowl Web page, Desk of Contents, Govt Abstract, and Proposal Narrative in a single file). Please see Proposal Narrative Tips in Part 2F of the PSI for extra particulars.
- The Proposal Narrative ought to reveal the applicant’s dedication to making sure the participation of all individuals as a method for implementation. Please combine inclusion methods in all sections of the Proposal Narrative to reinforce programmatic affect.
- Funds (ideally as an Excel workbook) that features three (3) columns containing the request to DRL, any price sharing contribution, and the entire finances. A abstract finances also needs to be included utilizing the OMB-approved finances classes (see SF-424A as a pattern) in a separate tab. Prices should be in U.S. {Dollars}. Detailed line-item budgets for sub-grantees must be included as further tabs throughout the Excel workbook (if obtainable on the time of submission). Please see Funds Tips Part 2G of the PSI for extra data.
- The programming method must be devoted to strengthening inclusive societies as a essential pillar of sturdy democracies. Please embrace prices related to this dedication within the Funds and Funds Narrative.
- Funds Narrative (ideally as a Phrase Doc) that features substantive explanations and justifications for every line merchandise within the detailed finances spreadsheet, in addition to the supply and an outline of all cost-share provided. Please see Funds Tips Part 2G of the PSI for extra data.
- The group’s most up-to-date audit, if relevant. This must be a single audit, program-specific audit, or different audit in accordance with Usually Accepted Authorities Auditing Requirements (GAGAS). Please see Audit Part 2H of the PSI for extra data.
- Logic Mannequin (ideally as a Phrase Doc). Please see Logic Mannequin Part 2I of the PSI for extra data.
- Monitoring and Analysis Narrative (to not exceed 4 (4) pages, ideally as a Phrase Doc). Please see Monitoring and Analysis Narrative Part 2J of the PSI for extra data.
- As acknowledged throughout the DRL Information to Program Monitoring and Analysis (p. 6): DRL strongly encourages candidates to contemplate whether or not their monitoring and analysis programs are using human rights-based approaches, making use of a gender and fairness lens, and/or embrace the participation of sub-grantees and mission individuals. Throughout the Monitoring and Analysis Narrative, candidates ought to reveal their dedication to inclusive methods and think about whether or not analysis design, information assortment, evaluation, reporting and studying are performed in an moral and accountable means with all mission individuals (e.g. direct beneficiaries, sub-grantees). Candidates ought to nonetheless make satisfactory provisions to guard the privateness of human topics when gathering information from people. As an illustration, when gathering information from mission individuals, think about whether or not your group can have the required knowledgeable consent kinds, confidentiality agreements, and information safety protocols. Candidates must be conscious that, ought to an utility transfer ahead for funding consideration, DRL will request an in depth Monitoring and Analysis Plan for additional assessment and approval.
- Threat Evaluation (ideally as a Phrase Doc). Please see Threat Evaluation Part 2K of the PSI for extra data on this requirement, together with Do No Hurt ideas and Stopping Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) insurance policies/plans.
- Key Personnel (to not exceed two (2) pages, ideally as a Phrase Doc). Please embrace brief bios that spotlight related skilled expertise. Given the restricted area, CVs should not beneficial for submission.
- Timeline (to not exceed one (1) web page, ideally as a Phrase Doc or Excel Sheet). The timeline of the general proposal ought to embrace actions, analysis efforts, and program closeout.
- Gender and Inclusion Evaluation (to not exceed three (3) pages, ideally as a Phrase Doc) that gives a concise evaluation of related gender norms, fairness and equality for underserved communities and marginalized populations, energy relations, and battle dynamics in goal international locations. Potential domains of research embrace institutional practices and limitations, cultural norms, gender roles, entry to and management over belongings and sources, and patterns of energy and decision-making. Candidates ought to briefly clarify how they’ve built-in findings from their evaluation into mission design and/or different proposal paperwork, together with a plan for repeatedly reviewing and updating the gender and inclusion evaluation with native companions/beneficiaries, and making any essential changes to mission implementation. A set of guiding questions may be present in Part 2L of the PSI.
- Safety Plan addressing any points involving in-person occasions and recruitment for mentioned occasions, and security for any on-line packages or communications, together with impartial IT safety audits (to incorporate a vulnerability evaluation) of any proposed net utility or platform. Group’s Safety Plan ought to reveal consideration of the dangers recognized within the submitted threat evaluation. Prices may additionally be recognized throughout the finances and finances narrative. Candidates are additionally inspired to incorporate contingency plans for in-person or on-line actions.
- Contingency Plan for proposed actions ought to the initially deliberate actions not have the ability to be carried out. The Contingency Plan must be submitted as a further annex. Candidates ought to reveal consideration of the dangers recognized within the submitted threat evaluation and embrace particular different actions or areas as a part of the Contingency Plan. Any proposed “plan” should adjust to 2CFR200.433 – Contingency provisions. Plans should not embrace unallocable or unallowable bills and should not lead to a bigger Complete Award Worth than the recognized because the “competitors ceiling.” DRL requires prior approval by the Grants Officer of the “plan” earlier than any actions can happen, or prices may be incurred in opposition to the “plan.”
- Classes Discovered (to not exceed one (1) web page, ideally as a Phrase Doc) from previous packages (insert nation or theme) that reveal how the implementer has safely operated and responded to programmatic challenges, studying from each successes and failures, within the working setting. To be integrated into the ten (10) pages allowed for “Proposal Narrative.”
- Psychosocial Help (to be integrated into the ten (10) pages allowed for “Proposal Narrative,” and into “Funds” and “Funds Narrative”). A piece within the proposal, finances, and finances narrative to replicate applicable sources and help for the psychosocial well being of workers (i.e., actions can vary from entry to academic supplies and coaching alternatives to counseling providers to different contextually related help).
- References: For reference to worldwide steering, please see the next: Core Humanitarian Normal Dedication 8.9 (https://corehumanitarianstandard.org/files/files/CHS-Guidance-Notes-and-Indicators.pdf ); and IASC Tips on Psychological Well being and Psychosocial Help in Emergency Settings Motion Sheet 4.4 (http://www.who.int/mental_health/emergencies/guidelines_iasc_mental_health_psychosocial_june_2007.pdf ).
Purposes that don’t embrace the weather listed above might be deemed technically ineligible.
D.2.2 Further Utility Paperwork
Robust purposes will even include the next:
- Particular person Letters of Help and/or Memorandum of Understanding. Letters of help and MOUs should be particular to the mission implementation (e.g. from proposed companions or sub-award recipients) and won’t depend in the direction of the web page restrict.
Please check with the Proposal Submission Directions (PSI), up to date December 2022, on DRL’s web site for detailed steering on the paperwork above: https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/programs-and-grants/. For an utility guidelines and pattern templates please see the Assets web page on DRL’s web site: https://www.state.gov/resources-for-programs-and-grants/. The pattern templates offered on the DRL web site are advised, however not obligatory.
DRL reserves the proper to request further paperwork not included on this NOFO. Moreover, to make sure that all purposes obtain a balanced analysis, the DRL assessment panel will assessment from the primary web page of every part as much as the web page restrict and no additional.
Be aware: If in the end supplied with a notification of non-binding intent to make a federal award, candidates sometimes have two to a few weeks to supply further data and paperwork requested within the notification of intent. The deadlines might fluctuate in every notification of intent and candidates should adhere to the acknowledged deadline within the notification of intent.
D.2.3 Further Info Requested For These Receiving Notification of Intent
Profitable candidates should submit, after notification of intent to make a federal award, however previous to issuance of a federal award:
- Written responses and revised utility paperwork addressing situations and proposals from the DRL assessment panel;
- A duplicate of the applicant’s newest NICRA as a PDF file, if the applicant has a NICRA and contains NICRA prices within the finances;
- A accomplished copy of the Division’s Monetary Administration Survey, if receiving DRL funding for the primary time;
- Submission of required paperwork to register within the Cost Administration System managed by the Division of Well being and Human Companies, if receiving DRL funding for the primary time (except an exemption is offered);
- Different requested data or paperwork included within the notification of intent to make a federal award or subsequent communications previous to issuance of a federal award;
- Candidates who submit their purposes by way of Grants.gov might be required to create a SAMS Home account in an effort to settle for the ultimate award. Accounts should be logged into to each 60 days in an effort to keep an lively account.
D.3 Distinctive Entity Identifier and System for Award Administration (SAM)
All prime organizations, whether or not based mostly in the USA or in a foreign country, should have a Distinctive Entity Identifier (UEI) and an lively registration with the SAM.gov earlier than submitting an utility. DRL might not assessment purposes from or make awards to candidates that haven’t accomplished all relevant UEI and SAM.gov necessities. A UEI is among the information components mandated by Public Legislation 109-282, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA), for all Federal awards.
Be aware: As of April 2022, a DUNS quantity is now not required for federal help purposes.
The two CFR 200 requires that sub-grantees receive a UEI quantity. Please word the UEI for sub-grantees shouldn’t be required on the time of utility however might be required earlier than the award is processed and/or directed to a sub-grantee.
Be aware: The method of acquiring or renewing a SAM.gov registration might take anyplace from 4-8 weeks. Please start your registration as early as potential.
- Organizations based mostly in the USA or that pay staff inside the USA will want an Employer Identification Quantity (EIN) from the Inner Income Service (IRS) and a UEI quantity previous to registering in SAM.gov. Please word that as of February 2023, organizations based mostly in the USA that don’t intend to use for U.S. Division of Protection (DoD) awards are now not required to have a Industrial and Authorities Entity (CAGE) code to use for non-DoD international help funding alternatives.
- If an applicant group is mid-registration and needs to take away an NCAGE code from their SAM.gov registration, the applicant ought to submit a help desk ticket (“incident”) with the Federal Service Desk (FSD) on-line at fsd.gov utilizing the next language: “I don’t intend to hunt monetary help from the Division of Protection. I don’t want to receive a CAGE code. I perceive that I might want to submit my registration after this incident is resolved in an effort to have my registration activated.”
- Organizations based mostly outdoors of the USA and that don’t pay staff inside the USA don’t want an EIN from the IRS, however do want a UEI quantity previous to registering in SAM.gov. Please word that as of December 2022, organizations based mostly outdoors of the USA that don’t intend to use for U.S. Division of Protection (DoD) awards are now not required to have a NATO CAGE (NCAGE) code to use for non-DoD international help funding alternatives.
- If an applicant group is mid-registration and needs to take away an NCAGE code from their SAM.gov registration, the applicant ought to submit a help desk ticket (“incident”) with the Federal Service Desk (FSD) on-line at fsd.gov utilizing the next language: “I don’t intend to hunt monetary help from the Division of Protection. I don’t want to receive an NCAGE code. I perceive that I might want to submit my registration after this incident is resolved in an effort to have my registration activated.”
Organizations based mostly outdoors of the USA and that DO NOT plan to do enterprise with the DoD ought to comply with the beneath directions:
Step 1: Proceed to SAM.gov to acquire a UEI and full the SAM.gov registration course of. SAM.gov registration should be renewed yearly.
Organizations based mostly outdoors of the USA and that DO plan to do enterprise with the DoD ought to comply with the beneath directions:
Step 1: Apply for an NCAGE code by following the directions on the NSPA NATO web site linked beneath:
Step 2: After receiving an NCAGE code, proceed to SAM.gov to acquire a UEI and full the SAM.gov registration course of. SAM.gov registration should be renewed yearly.
All prime organizations should additionally proceed to keep up lively SAM.gov registration with present data always throughout which they’ve an lively Federal award or utility into account by a federal award company. SAM.gov requires all entities to resume their registration yearly in an effort to keep an lively registration standing in SAM.gov. It’s the accountability of the applicant to make sure it has an lively registration in SAM.gov and to keep up that lively registration. If an applicant has not absolutely complied with the necessities on the time of utility, the applicant could also be deemed technically ineligible to obtain an award and use that willpower as a foundation for making an award to a different applicant.
Please check with 2 CFR 25.200 for extra data.
Be aware: SAM.gov shouldn’t be the identical as SAMS Home. It is freed from cost to register in each programs, however the registration processes are completely different.
Info is included on the SAM.gov web site to assist worldwide registrations, together with “Fast Begin Information for Worldwide Registrations” and “Useful Hints.” Navigate to www.SAM.gov, click on “HELP” within the prime navigation bar, then click on “Discover” and “New to SAM.gov?” for common data. Please word, steering on SAM.gov and the steering on GSA’s web site about requirement for registering in SAM.gov is topic to vary and is at present being up to date. Candidates ought to assessment the web site for probably the most up-to-date steering.
The connected “AQM Steering for NCAGE-SAM.gov for Grant Candidates as of Dec. 2022” is a compilation of sources gathered by the Division’s Workplace of Acquisitions Administration (AQM). Any content material proven from SAM.gov shouldn’t be owned by the Division of State. This steering and instruction are to one of the best of our data based mostly on the time of posting this solicitation. The place steering in these attachments differs from the SAM.gov web site, SAM.gov prevails and the applicant is inspired to hunt and doc responses offered by the SAM.gov assist desk.
D.3.1 Exemptions
An exemption from these necessities could also be permitted on a case-by-case foundation if:
- An applicant’s identification should be protected as a result of potential endangerment of their mission, their group’s standing, their staff, or people being served by the applicant.
- For an applicant, if the federal awarding company makes a willpower that there are exigent circumstances that prohibit the applicant from receiving a UEI and finishing SAM.gov registration previous to receiving a federal award. In these cases, federal awarding businesses should require the recipient to acquire a UEI and full SAM.gov registration inside 30 days of the federal award date.
Organizations requesting exemption from UEI or SAM.gov necessities should electronic mail the purpose of contact listed within the NOFO at the least two weeks previous to the deadline within the NOFO offering a justification of their request. Approval for a SAM.gov exemption should come from the warranted Grants Officer earlier than the appliance may be deemed eligible for assessment.
Be aware: As of December 2022, organizations based mostly outdoors of the USA that don’t intend to use for U.S. Division of Protection (DoD) awards are now not required to have a NATO CAGE (NCAGE) code to use for non-DoD international help funding alternatives. As of February 2023, organizations based mostly in the USA that don’t intend to use for U.S. DoD awards are now not required to have a Industrial and Authorities Entity (CAGE) code to use for non-DoD international help funding alternatives.
D.4 Submission Dates and Occasions
Purposes are due no later than 11:59 PM Japanese Normal Time (EST), on 1 Could, 2023 on https://www.grants.gov/ or SAMS Home (https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com) underneath the announcement title “DRL: Bolstering the Power and Credibility of Libyan Civil Society,” funding alternative quantity “SFOP0009367.”
Grants.gov and SAMS Home routinely log the date and time an utility submission is made, and the Division of State will use this data to find out whether or not an utility has been submitted on time. Late purposes are neither reviewed nor thought of. Identified system errors brought on by Grants.gov or SAMS Home (https://mygrants.service-now.com ) which are outdoors of the applicant’s management might be reviewed on a case by case foundation. Candidates mustn’t count on a notification upon DRL receiving their utility.
D.5 Funding Restrictions
Previous to issuing a federal award with a complete quantity of federal share larger than $250,000, the Division of State is required to assessment and think about any details about the applicant that’s discovered within the designated integrity and efficiency system accessible by way of SAM.gov (41 USC §2313). An applicant, at its choice, might assessment data within the designated integrity and efficiency programs accessible by way of SAM.gov and touch upon any details about itself {that a} federal awarding company beforehand entered and is at present within the designated integrity and efficiency system accessible by way of SAM.gov. The Division of State will think about any feedback by the applicant, along with the opposite data within the designated integrity and efficiency system, in making a judgment in regards to the applicant’s integrity, enterprise ethics, and file of efficiency underneath federal awards when finishing the assessment of threat posed by candidates as described in 2 CFR 200.206.
DRL is not going to think about purposes that replicate any kind of help for any member, affiliate, or consultant of a chosen terrorist group. Please refer the hyperlink for International Terrorist Organizations: https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/
Undertaking actions whose direct beneficiaries are international militaries or paramilitary teams or people is not going to be thought of for DRL funding given function limitations on funding.
In accordance with Division of State coverage for terrorism, candidates are suggested that profitable passing of vetting to judge the danger that funds might profit terrorists or their supporters is a situation of award. If chosen for an award, candidates might be requested to submit data required by DS Kind 4184, Threat Evaluation Info (connected to this solicitation) about their firm and its principal personnel. Vetting data can be required for all sub-award efficiency on help awards recognized by the Division of State as presenting a threat of terrorist financing. Vetting data may additionally be requested for mission beneficiaries and individuals. Failure to submit data when requested, or failure to move vetting, could also be grounds for rejecting your proposal previous to award.
The Leahy Legislation prohibits Division international help funds from supporting international safety drive items if the Secretary of State has credible data that the unit has dedicated a gross violation of human rights. Per 22 USC §2378d(a) (2017) , “No help shall be furnished underneath this chapter [FOREIGN ASSISTANCE] or the Arms Export Management Act [22 USC 2751 et seq.] to any unit of the safety forces of a international nation if the Secretary of State has credible data that such unit has dedicated a gross violation of human rights.” Restrictions might apply to any proposed help to police or different legislation enforcement. Amongst these, pursuant to part 620M of the International Help Act of 1961, as amended (FAA), no help offered by way of this funding alternative could also be furnished to any unit of the safety forces of a international nation when there may be credible data that such unit has dedicated a gross violation of human rights. In accordance with the necessities of part 620M of the FAA, also called the Leahy legislation, mission beneficiaries or individuals from a international authorities’s safety forces might should be vetted by the Division earlier than the supply of any help. If a proposed grant or cooperative settlement will present help to international safety forces or personnel, compliance with the Leahy Legislation is required.
U.S. international help for Burma or Burmese beneficiaries is topic to restrictions. This contains restrictions, pursuant to part 7043(a)(3) of the Division of State, International Operations, and Associated Packages Appropriations Act, 2020 (Div. G, P.L. 116-94)(SFOAA), on funds appropriated underneath title III of the act for help for Burma. Part 7043(a)(3) supplies that such funds “will not be made obtainable to any group or entity managed by the armed forces of Burma, or to any particular person or group that advocates violence in opposition to ethnic or non secular teams or people in Burma, as decided by the Secretary of State.” As well as, funds can’t be made obtainable to any particular person or group that has dedicated critical human rights abuse.
Organizations must be cognizant of those restrictions when creating mission proposals as these restrictions would require applicable due diligence of program beneficiaries and collaboration with DRL to make sure compliance with these restrictions. Program beneficiaries topic to due diligence vetting will embrace any people or entities which are beneficiaries of international help funding or help. Due diligence vetting will embrace a assessment of open-source supplies.
Federal awards typically is not going to enable reimbursement of pre-award prices; nevertheless, the Grants Officer might approve pre-award prices on a case-by-case foundation. Usually, building prices should not allowed underneath DRL awards. For added data, please see the DRL Proposal Submission Directions (PSI) for Purposes: https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/programs-and-grants/.
D.6 Utility Submission
All utility submissions should be made electronically through www.grants.gov or SAMS Home (https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com ). Each programs require registration by the making use of group. Please word that the Grants.gov registration course of can take ten (10) enterprise days or longer, even when all registration steps are accomplished in a well timed method.
It’s the accountability of the applicant to make sure that it has an lively registration in SAMS Home or Grants.gov. Candidates are required to doc that the appliance has been obtained by SAMS Home or Grants.gov in its entirety. DRL bears no accountability for disqualification that outcome from candidates not being registered earlier than the due date, for system errors in both SAMS Home or Grants.gov, or different errors within the utility course of. Moreover, candidates should save a display shot of the guidelines exhibiting all paperwork submitted in case any doc fails to add efficiently.
Faxed, couriered, or emailed paperwork will not be accepted. Affordable lodging might, in applicable circumstances, be offered to candidates with disabilities or for safety causes. Candidates should comply with all formatting directions within the relevant NOFO and these directions.
DRL encourages organizations to submit purposes throughout regular enterprise hours (Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Japanese Normal Time (EST)). If an applicant experiences technical difficulties and has contacted the suitable assist desk however shouldn’t be receiving well timed help (e.g. you probably have not obtained a response inside 48 hours of contacting the assistance desk), you might contact the DRL level of contact listed within the NOFO in Part G. The purpose of contact might help in contacting the suitable assist desk.
The Grants Officer will decide technical eligibility of all purposes.
SAMS Home Purposes:
Candidates utilizing SAMS Home for the primary time ought to full their “New Group Registration.” To register with SAMS Home, click on “Login to https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com ” and comply with the “create an account” hyperlink.
Organizations should keep in mind to save lots of a display shot of the guidelines exhibiting all paperwork submitted in case any doc fails to add efficiently.
SAMS Home Assist Desk:
For help with SAMS Home accounts and technical points associated to the system, please contact the ILMS assist desk by telephone at +1 (888) 313-4567 (toll prices apply for worldwide callers) or by way of the Self Service on-line portal that may be accessed from https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com . Buyer help is obtainable 24/7.
Grants.gov Purposes:
Candidates who don’t submit purposes through SAMS Home might submit through www.grants.gov.
Please be suggested that finishing all the required registration steps for acquiring a username and password from Grants.gov can take ten (10) enterprise days or longer.
Please check with the Grants.gov web site for definitions of assorted “utility statuses” and the distinction between a submission receipt and a submission validation. Candidates will obtain a validation e-mail from Grants.gov upon the profitable submission of an utility. Validation of an digital submission through Grants.gov can take as much as two enterprise days. Moreover, organizations should keep in mind to save lots of a screenshot of the guidelines exhibiting all paperwork submitted in case any doc fails to add efficiently.
Grants.gov Helpdesk:
For help with Grants.gov, please name the Contact Middle at +1 (800) 518-4726 or electronic mail help@grants.gov. The Contact Middle is obtainable 24 hours a day, seven days per week, besides federal holidays.
See https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-holidays/ for a listing of federal holidays.
E. Utility Overview Info
E.1 Proposal Overview Standards
The DRL assessment panel will consider every utility individually in opposition to the next standards, listed beneath so as of significance, and never in opposition to competing purposes. Please use the beneath standards as a reference, however don’t construction your utility in response to the sub-sections.
High quality of Undertaking Thought
Purposes must be attentive to this system framework and coverage goals recognized within the NOFO, applicable within the nation/regional context, and will exhibit originality, substance, precision, and relevance to DRL’s mission of selling human rights and democracy. Initiatives ought to have the potential to have a direct affect resulting in long-term, sustainable reforms. DRL prefers new approaches that don’t duplicate efforts by different entities. This doesn’t exclude from consideration tasks that enhance upon or broaden present profitable tasks in a brand new and complementary means. In international locations the place comparable actions are already going down, a proof must be offered as to how new actions is not going to duplicate or merely add to present actions and the way these efforts might be coordinated. Proposals that promote artistic approaches to acknowledged ongoing challenges are extremely inspired. DRL prioritizes mission proposals with inclusive approaches for advancing these rights.
Undertaking Planning/Capacity to Obtain Goals
A powerful utility will embrace a transparent articulation of how the proposed mission actions contribute to the general mission goals, and every exercise might be clearly developed and detailed. A complete month-to-month work plan ought to reveal substantive undertakings and the logistical capability of the group. Goals must be formidable but measurable, results-focused and achievable in an affordable timeframe. A whole utility should embrace a Logic Mannequin to reveal how the mission actions will have an effect on its proposed goals. The Logic Mannequin ought to match the goals, outcomes, key actions, and outputs described within the narrative. Purposes ought to tackle how the mission will interact related stakeholders and will establish native companions as applicable.
If native companions have been recognized, DRL strongly encourages candidates to submit letters of help from proposed in-country companions. Moreover, candidates ought to describe the division of labor among the many direct applicant and any native companions. If relevant, purposes ought to establish goal geographic areas for actions, goal participant teams or choice standards for individuals, and the particular roles of sub-awardees, amongst different pertinent particulars.
DRL acknowledges that every one packages have some degree of threat as a result of inner/exterior variables which have the potential to adversely have an effect on a program. Threat administration ought to tackle how the mission design incorporates the identification, evaluation, and administration of key threat elements. DRL will assessment the Threat Evaluation based mostly on the group’s skill to establish dangers that might have an effect on the general program in addition to how the group will handle these dangers.
Establishment’s Report and Capability
DRL will think about the previous efficiency of prior recipients and the demonstrated potential of recent candidates. Purposes ought to reveal an institutional file of profitable democracy and human rights packages, together with accountable fiscal administration and full compliance with all reporting necessities for previous grants. Proposed personnel and institutional sources must be satisfactory and applicable to realize the mission’s goals. Initiatives ought to have potential for continued funding past DRL sources.
Addressing Obstacles to Equal Participation
DRL strives to make sure its tasks advance the rights and uphold the dignity of all individuals. Because the U.S. authorities’s lead bureau devoted to selling democratic governance, DRL requests a programming method devoted to strengthening inclusive societies as a essential pillar of sturdy democracies. Discrimination, violence, inequity, and inequality concentrating on any members of society undermines collective safety and threatens democracy. DRL prioritizes inclusive and built-in program fashions that assess and tackle the limitations to entry for people and teams based mostly on their race, ethnicity, faith, earnings, geography, gender identification, sexual orientation, or incapacity. The proposal also needs to reveal how the mission will additional engagement in underserved communities and with people from underserved communities. Candidates ought to describe how programming will affect all of its beneficiaries, together with help for underserved and underrepresented communities. This method must be an integral a part of each the idea and express design, and implementation of all proposed mission actions, goals, and monitoring. Robust proposals will present particular evaluation, measures, and corresponding targets as applicable. Stakeholders shall establish the distinction between alternatives and limitations to entry, and design tasks accordingly to not perpetuate these inequalities, however moderately improve programmatic affect by together with all individuals in society. The objective of this method is to deliver communities and people in energy collectively in help of extra secure and safe societies.
Value Effectiveness
DRL strongly encourages candidates to obviously reveal mission cost-effectiveness of their utility, together with examples of leveraging institutional and different sources. Nevertheless, cost-sharing or different examples of leveraging different sources should not required. Inclusion of cost-sharing within the finances doesn’t lead to further factors awarded through the assessment course of. Budgets ought to have low and/or affordable overhead and administration prices, and candidates ought to present clear explanations and justifications for these prices in relation to the work concerned. All finances gadgets must be clearly defined and justified to reveal necessity, appropriateness, and connection to the mission goals.
Please word: If price share is included within the finances, the recipient should keep written data to help all allowable prices which are claimed as its contribution to price share, in addition to prices to be paid by the Federal authorities. Such data are topic to audit. Within the occasion the recipient doesn’t meet the minimal quantity of cost-sharing as stipulated within the recipient’s finances, DRL’s contribution could also be decreased in proportion to the recipient’s contribution.
Multiplier Impact/Sustainability
Purposes ought to clearly delineate how components of the mission can have a multiplier impact and be sustainable past the lifetime of the grant. A very good multiplier impact will have an effect past the direct beneficiaries of the grant (e.g. individuals educated underneath a grant go on to coach different individuals; workshop individuals use abilities from a workshop to reinforce a nationwide degree election that impacts your complete populace). A powerful sustainability plan might embrace demonstrating persevering with affect past the lifetime of a mission or garnering different donor help after DRL funding ceases.
Undertaking Monitoring and Analysis
Full purposes will embrace an in depth M&E Narrative, which element how the mission’s progress might be monitored and evaluated. Incorporating well-designed monitoring and analysis processes right into a mission is an environment friendly methodology for documenting the change (meant and unintended) {that a} mission seeks. Purposes ought to reveal the capability to supply goals with measurable outputs and outcomes.
The standard of the M&E sections might be judged on the narrative explaining how each monitoring and analysis might be carried out and who might be accountable for these associated actions. The M&E Narrative ought to clarify how analysis(s), inner or exterior, might be integrated into the mission implementation plan or how the mission might be systematically assessed within the absence of 1. Please see the part on Monitoring and Analysis Narrative within the Proposal Submission Directions (PSI) for extra data on what’s required within the narrative.
Be aware: Candidates are now not required to submit an in depth Monitoring and Analysis Plan of their proposals. Nevertheless, candidates must be conscious that, ought to an utility transfer ahead for funding consideration, DRL will request an in depth Monitoring and Analysis Plan for additional assessment and approval.
The output and outcome-based efficiency indicators mustn’t solely be separated by mission goals but in addition ought to match the goals, outcomes, and outputs detailed within the Logic Mannequin and Proposal Narrative. Efficiency indicators must be clearly outlined (i.e., defined how the symptoms might be measured and reported) both throughout the desk or with a separate Efficiency Indicator Reference Sheet (PIRS). For every efficiency indicator, the desk also needs to embrace baselines and quarterly and cumulative targets, information assortment instruments, information sources, forms of information disaggregation, and frequency of monitoring and analysis. There also needs to be metrics to seize how mission actions goal those that face discrimination as a result of their faith, gender, disabilities, ethnicity or sexual orientation and gender identification, the place relevant. Please see the part on Monitoring and Analysis Plan within the Proposal Submission Directions (PSI) for extra data on what’s required within the plan.
E.2 Overview and Choice Course of
DRL strives to make sure that every utility receives a balanced analysis by a DRL assessment panel. AQM will decide technical eligibility for all purposes. All technically eligible purposes for a given NOFO are reviewed in opposition to the identical seven standards, which embrace high quality of mission thought, mission planning/skill to realize goals, institutional file and capability, inclusive programming, price effectiveness, multiplier impact/sustainability, and mission monitoring and analysis.
Moreover, the DRL assessment panel will consider how the appliance addresses the NOFO request, U.S. international coverage objectives, and the precedence wants of DRL total. DRL may additionally take into accounts the steadiness of the present portfolio of lively tasks, together with geographic or thematic range, if wanted.
Generally, the DRL assessment panel contains representatives from DRL, the suitable Division of State regional bureau (to incorporate suggestions from U.S. embassies), and U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) (to incorporate suggestions from USAID missions). In some circumstances, further panelists might take part, together with from different Division of State bureaus or workplaces; U.S. authorities departments, businesses, or boards; representatives from companion governments; or representatives from entities which are in a public-private partnership with DRL. On the finish of the panel’s dialogue about an utility, the assessment panel votes on whether or not to advocate the appliance for approval by the DRL Assistant Secretary. If extra purposes are beneficial for approval than DRL can in the end fund, the assessment panel will rank the beneficial purposes in precedence order for consideration by the DRL Assistant Secretary. The Grants Officer Consultant (GOR) for the eventual award doesn’t vote on the panel. All panelists should signal non-disclosure agreements and conflicts of curiosity agreements.
DRL assessment panels might present situations and proposals on purposes to reinforce the proposed mission, which should be addressed by the applicant earlier than additional consideration of the award. To make sure efficient use of DRL funds, situations or suggestions might embrace requests to extend, lower, make clear, and/or justify prices and mission actions.
F. Federal Award Administration Info
F.1 Federal Award Notices
DRL will present a separate notification to candidates on the results of their purposes. Profitable candidates will obtain a letter electronically through electronic mail requesting that the applicant reply to assessment panel situations and proposals. This notification shouldn’t be an authorization to start actions and doesn’t represent formal approval or a funding dedication.
Remaining approval is contingent on the applicant efficiently responding to the assessment panel’s situations and proposals; being registered in required programs, together with the U.S. authorities’s Cost Administration System (PMS), except an exemption is offered; and finishing and offering any further documentation requested by DRL or AQM. Remaining approval can be contingent on Congressional Notification necessities being met and ultimate assessment and approval by the Division’s warranted Grants Officer.
The discover of Federal award signed by the Division’s warranted Grants Officers is the only authorizing doc. If awarded, the discover of Federal award might be offered to the applicant’s designated Authorizing Official through SAMS Home to be electronically counter-signed within the system.
F.2 Administrative and Nationwide Coverage and Authorized Necessities
DRL requires all recipients of international help funding to adjust to all relevant Division and Federal legal guidelines and laws, together with however not restricted to the next:
The Uniform Administrative Necessities, Value Rules and Audit Necessities for Federal Awards set forth in 2 CFR Chapter 200 (Sub-Chapters A by way of F) shall apply to all non-Federal entities, aside from help awards to People and International Public Entities. Sub-Chapters A by way of E shall apply to all international organizations, and Sub-Chapters A by way of D shall apply to all U.S. and international for-profit entities. The applicant/recipient of the award and any sub-recipient underneath the award should adjust to all relevant phrases and situations, along with the reassurance and certifications made a part of the Discover of Award. The Division’s Normal Phrases and Situations may be seen at https://www.state.gov/about-us-office-of-the-procurement-executive/.
Moreover, DRL helps implementation of the Nationwide Technique on Gender Fairness and Equality; the Girls Peace and Safety (WPS) Act of 2017, which highlights the U.S. dedication to the significant participation of girls in battle prevention, administration, and backbone; and the Division of State WPS Implementation Plan. For added data, please check with the next hyperlink: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1141 .
As a result of willpower made underneath the Trafficking Victims Safety Act (TVPA) for funds obligated throughout FY 2023, help that advantages the governments of the next international locations could also be topic to a restriction underneath the TVPA. The Division of State determines on a case-by-case foundation what constitutes help to a authorities; the overall ideas listed beneath apply.
Help to the federal government contains:
- All branches of presidency (government, legislative, judicial) in any respect ranges (nationwide, regional, native);
- Public colleges, universities, hospitals, and state-owned enterprises, in addition to authorities staff;
- Money, coaching, tools, providers, or different help offered on to the federal government, help offered to an NGO or different implementer for the good thing about the federal government, and help to authorities staff.
Further necessities could also be included relying on the content material of this system.
F.3 Reporting
Candidates ought to pay attention to the post-award reporting necessities for federal help awards as mirrored in 2 CFR 200 Appendix XII – Award Time period and Situation for Recipient Integrity and Efficiency Issues. DRL awards require that every one reviews (monetary and progress) are uploaded to the federal award file in SAMS Home on a quarterly foundation. The Federal Monetary Report (FFR or SF-425) is the required kind for monetary reviews and should be submitted in PMS, and a duplicate of the report submitted in PMS then uploaded to the award file in SAMS Home. Progress reviews uploaded to the award file in SAMS Home should embrace a story as described beneath in addition to Program Indicators (or different mutually agreed upon format authorized by the Grants Officer), together with customary (F) framework indicators and DRL framework indicators. F and DRL framework indicators might be reviewed and negotiated through the ultimate phases of issuing an award on a project-by-project foundation.
Narrative progress reviews ought to replicate the give attention to measuring the mission’s progress on the overarching goals and must be compiled in response to the goals, outcomes, and outputs as outlined within the award’s Scope of Work (SOW) and within the Monitoring & Analysis Narrative. An evaluation of the general mission’s achievements must be included in every progress report. The place related, progress reviews ought to embrace the next sections:
- Related contextual data (restricted);
- Clarification and analysis of great actions of the reporting interval and the way the actions replicate progress towards reaching goals, together with assembly benchmarks/targets as set within the authorized M&E Plan. As well as, connect the M&E Plan, evaluating the goal and precise numbers for the symptoms;
- Any qualitative affect or success tales from the mission, when potential;
- Copy of baseline, mid-term, and/or ultimate analysis report(s) performed by an exterior evaluator; if relevant;
- Related supporting documentation or merchandise associated to the mission actions (equivalent to articles, assembly lists and agendas, participant surveys, photographs, manuals, and many others.) as separate attachments;
- Description of how the recipient is pursuing sustainability, together with on the lookout for sources of follow-on funding;
- Any issues/challenges in implementing the mission and a corrective motion plan with an up to date timeline of actions;
- The explanation why established objectives weren’t met;
- Information for the required F and/or DRL framework indicator(s) for the quarter in addition to mixture information by fiscal 12 months;
- Program Indicators or different mutually agreed upon format authorized by the Grants Officer;
- Proposed actions for the following quarter; and,
- Further pertinent data, together with evaluation and rationalization of price overruns or excessive unit prices, if relevant.
International Help Information Overview: As required by Congress, the Division of State should make progress in its efforts to enhance monitoring and reporting of international help information by way of the International Help Information Overview (FADR). The FADR requires monitoring of international help exercise information from budgeting, planning, and allocation by way of obligation and disbursement. Profitable candidates might be required to report and draw down federal funding based mostly on the suitable FADR Information Parts, indicated inside their award documentation. In circumstances of a couple of FADR Information Aspect, sometimes program or sector and/or areas or nation, the profitable applicant might be required to keep up separate accounting data.
A ultimate narrative and monetary report should even be submitted inside 120 days after the expiration of the award.
Please word: Delays in reporting might lead to delays of cost approvals and failure to supply required reviews might jeopardize the recipient’s’ skill to obtain future U.S. authorities funds. DRL reserves the proper to request any further programmatic and/or monetary mission data through the award interval.
G. Contact Info
For technical submission questions associated to this NOFO, please contact DRL-NEAProgramInfo@state.gov.
For help with SAMS Home accounts and technical points associated to the system, please contact the ILMS assist desk by telephone at +1 (888) 313-4567 (toll prices apply for worldwide callers) or by way of the Self Service on-line portal that may be accessed from https://afsitsm.service-now.com/ilms/home . Buyer help is obtainable 24/7.
Please word that establishing an account in SAMS Home might require the usage of smartphone for multi-factor authentication (MFA). If an applicant doesn’t have accessibility to a smartphone through the time of making an account, please contact the helpdesk and request directions on MFA for Home windows PC.
For help with Grants.gov accounts and technical points associated to utilizing the system, please name the Contact Middle at +1 (800) 518-4726 or electronic mail help@grants.gov. The Contact Middle is obtainable 24 hours a day, seven days per week, besides federal holidays.
For a listing of federal holidays go to: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-holidays/
Apart from technical submission questions, through the NOFO interval U.S. Division of State workers in Washington and abroad shall not talk about this competitors with candidates till your complete proposal assessment course of has been accomplished and rejection and approval letters have been transmitted.
H. Different Info
Candidates must be conscious that DRL understands that some data contained in purposes could also be thought of delicate or proprietary and can make applicable efforts to guard such data. Nevertheless, candidates are suggested that DRL can’t assure that such data is not going to be disclosed, together with pursuant to the Freedom of Info Act (FOIA) or different comparable statutes.
The knowledge on this NOFO and “Proposal Submission Directions for Purposes” is binding and will not be modified by any DRL consultant. Explanatory data offered by DRL that contradicts this language is not going to be binding. Issuance of the NOFO and negotiation of purposes doesn’t represent an award dedication on the a part of the U.S. authorities. DRL reserves the proper to cut back, revise, or improve proposal budgets.
This NOFO will seem on www.grants.gov, SAMS Domestic , and DRL’s web site https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/programs-and-grants/.
Background Info on DRL and Normal DRL Funding
DRL has the mission of selling democracy and defending human rights and basic freedoms globally. DRL helps tasks designed by way of an evidence-based framework that empower native civil society companions to advertise and defend democracy globally, together with efforts to counter authoritarianism, promote human rights, and meaningfully tackle range, fairness, and inclusion as a core ingredient of fine governance. DRL sometimes focuses its work in international locations going through human rights violations and abuses, the place democracy and human rights defenders are underneath stress, and the place governance infrastructure is undemocratic, in transition, or liable to backsliding.
Further background data on DRL and its efforts may be discovered on https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-civilian-security-democracy-and-human-rights/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/.