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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Request for Statements of Curiosity: FY22 DRL Iraq Packages
Requested Goals for Statements of Curiosity
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) broadcasts a Request for Statements of Curiosity (RSOI) outlining undertaking ideas and capability to handle packages in Iraq that may: strengthen efficient governance; improve political participation and civic activism; promote basic freedoms, together with non secular freedom; help atrocity prevention, accountability, and reconciliation; and promote a neighborhood of observe in Iraq.
PLEASE NOTE: DRL strongly encourages candidates to right away entry Grants.gov so as to get hold of a username and password. All Assertion of Curiosity (SOI) submissions have to be made electronically through www.grants.gov. 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. For directions on the way to register with Grants.gov for the primary time, please seek advice from the Proposal Submission Directions for Statements of Curiosity at: https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/programs-and-grants/. Once more, functions MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA GRANTS.GOV. The RSOI will likely be viewable on SAMS Home, however there is not going to be an possibility to use on SAMS Home. Functions should be submitted through www.grants.gov.
The SOI utility is step one in a two-part course of. Candidates should first submit a SOI, which is a concise, 3-page idea word designed to obviously talk a program thought and its targets earlier than the event of a full proposal utility. The aim of the SOI course of is to permit candidates the chance to submit program concepts for DRL to judge previous to requiring the event of full proposal functions. Upon assessment of eligible SOIs, DRL will invite chosen candidates to broaden their concepts into full proposal functions.
REQUESTED STATEMENT OF INTEREST PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
U.S. human rights and democracy help in Iraq is designed to advertise consultant governance primarily based on democratic rules, respect for human rights and basic freedoms together with non secular freedom, and peaceable coexistence. It can additionally present for the safety of and advocacy for the rights of youth, ladies, and spiritual and ethnic minorities, and others in susceptible circumstances, in addition to mitigate the impression of battle on Iraqi communities.
Proposed programming have to be attentive to fast wants in-country; versatile in its skill to answer the shifting context; and according to the U.S. Authorities’s democracy, governance, and human rights targets for Iraq. Programming should contribute to and help Iraqi-led efforts the place attainable. Useful sources for candidates embrace the annual Iraq Human Rights Report, Worldwide Non secular Freedom Report, and Trafficking in Individuals Report (https://www.state.gov/reports-bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/).
Major organizations could submit as much as three (3) SOIs in response to this RSOI. There are 5 classes below which organizations could apply, detailed in full under. These classes are: 1) Efficient Governance, Political Participation, and Civic Activism; 2) Basic Freedoms; 3) Atrocity Prevention, Accountability, and Reconciliation; 4) Non secular Freedom; and 5) Neighborhood of Observe Improvement and Coordination. In case your proposal addresses a number of classes, please designate a main class that greatest displays the undertaking’s said targets. Additionally included is a standalone class for programming to help DRL’s neighborhood of observe. Please intently assessment the neighborhood of observe part for particular necessities of functions to this chance.
Aggressive SOIs will embrace clear, detailed program methods that illustrate the logic behind every program’s design, program-specific targets, and the hyperlink between the program-specific targets and certainly one of DRL’s 4 classes outlined under. Candidates are inspired to design packages to deal with a clearly articulated class. SOIs could contribute to multiple class, however it’s strongly really useful that candidates hold SOIs as focused as attainable and clearly state the first DRL class that this system addresses throughout the physique of the SOI. Addressing multiple class will NOT make a SOI extra aggressive. Every SOI should additionally embrace the group title, proposal title, funds quantity, program size, geographic focus, and level of contact. Organizations could submit a number of SOIs throughout the similar class.
Price range requests could vary from a flooring of $750,000 to a ceiling of $3,000,000. The interval of efficiency could vary between 18 and 48 months.
With the above in thoughts, DRL invitations organizations to submit statements of curiosity for packages within the following areas:
EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, AND CIVIC ACTIVISM
Programming ought to promote inclusive, clear, and responsive governance in Iraq. DRL acknowledges the intersectional nature of democracy, good governance, and respect for basic freedoms and human rights. Candidates could contemplate program subjects under or could suggest different themes or subjects that greatest reply to the Iraqi context. These embrace:
- Promote citizen participation in political and civil establishments and processes
- Promote rules of gender fairness and equality per the Iraq’s Nationwide Motion Plan and according to the U.S. Ladies, Peace and Safety Act;
- Assist responsive and accountable civil and political establishments and management;
- Advance clear, truthful, and principled governance and democratic processes;
- Assist anticorruption measures and accountability for corrupt practices;
- Promote consultant authorities on the nationwide, governorate, and native ranges;
- Foster participation by folks in susceptible circumstances, corresponding to ladies, youngsters and youth, individuals with disabilities, and spiritual and ethnic minorities in political and civic processes;
- Increase, and enhance the efficacy of, citizen and civil society participation in authorities and political reforms, together with participation that instantly helps legislative reforms that have an effect on basic freedoms and human rights.
FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS
Programming ought to shield and advance basic freedoms, together with freedom of the press, expression, affiliation, and peaceable meeting. Candidates could contemplate program subjects under or could suggest different themes and subjects that greatest reply to the Iraqi context. These embrace:
- Advance safety of basic rights for susceptible teams, together with youngsters, prisoners, non secular and ethnic minorities, ladies, and individuals with disabilities;
- Allow sturdy, sustainable, and moral free and unbiased media;
- Promote an open and protected web for all Iraqis;
- Promote inclusive responses to local weather change and safety of Iraq’s pure sources and atmosphere;
- Codify and enshrine protections of basic freedoms, together with freedoms of the press, expression, affiliation, and peaceable meeting;
- Assist safety of employee rights and development of first rate work rules;
- Maintain Iraqi civil society’s skill to have interaction safely and successfully on democracy and human rights.
ATROCITY PREVENTION, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND RECONCILIATION Programming ought to help inclusive efforts to guard human rights, cut back and forestall violence, promote accountability for human rights violations, and rebuild belief inside and between communities and between residents and the state.
Candidates could contemplate program subjects under or could suggest different themes and subjects that greatest reply to the Iraqi context. These embrace:
- Assist and empower survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) on-line and offline;
- Promote safety sector reform that allows inclusive human rights and neighborhood participation;
- Assist accountability for atrocities and human rights abuses dedicated in Iraq;
- Promote rehabilitation and reintegration of people and communities affected by battle, together with however not restricted to these affected by the ISIS genocide; these affected by pure sources depletion or entry to pure sources; and different components related to local weather change and climate-related displacement.
- Set up or help mechanisms that stop battle and violence and promote social cohesion and reconciliation.
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION
DRL seeks a company to facilitate a neighborhood of observe of native and worldwide organizations implementing democracy and human rights packages in Iraq, to incorporate growing sources and convening periodic coordination conferences.
The profitable applicant will coordinate with and construct on current DRL efforts to foster higher coordination and complementarity amongst packages. The profitable applicant may even coordinate numerous convenings of the neighborhood of observe, together with an annual gathering of 20-40 DRL stakeholder organizations and companions. Actions ought to give attention to the administration of logistics for stakeholder particular conferences, in addition to broader improvement of the neighborhood of observe. The profitable applicant will likely be accountable for the logistics and coordination of the next conferences on a yearly foundation, which should embrace sturdy native accomplice participation:
- One in-person stakeholder assembly for each worldwide and native companions in a 3rd nation with USG participation (roughly forty individuals).
- Two to 4 in-person accomplice conferences in Baghdad and Erbil (roughly 20 individuals every).
- A number of small-group, thematic-focused convention calls or in-person conferences.
DRL welcomes further concepts for actions throughout the neighborhood of observe mechanism to repeatedly enhance and adapt coordination between the stakeholder organizations.
Except the third-country stakeholder assembly, prices related to different coordination actions must be minimal, using current workplace area and areas. Iraq-based accomplice conferences ought to contain solely Iraq-based employees.
This programming stream should stand alone (i.e., it will not be one element of a bigger program proposal). The goal interval of efficiency have to be a minimum of 24 months and the award ceiling is $1,000,000. Please word this can be a totally different period flooring and award ceiling than the one listed elsewhere on this solicitation). If awarded, this undertaking will likely be issued as a cooperative settlement.
OTHER PROGRAM INFORMATION:
All packages ought to goal to have impression that results in reforms and may have the potential for sustainability past DRL sources. DRL’s choice is to keep away from duplicating previous efforts by supporting new and artistic approaches. This doesn’t exclude from consideration initiatives that enhance upon or broaden current profitable initiatives in a brand new and complementary approach. Packages ought to search to incorporate teams that may convey views primarily based on their faith, gender, incapacity, race, ethnicity, and/or sexual orientation and gender id. Packages must be demand-driven and domestically led to the extent attainable. DRL requires all packages to be non-discriminatory and expects implementers to incorporate methods for integration of people/organizations no matter faith, gender, incapacity, race, ethnicity, and/or sexual orientation and gender id.
Candidates ought to conduct program actions all through Iraq, together with throughout the Iraqi Kurdistan Area (IKR). The place safety situations enable, actions ought to happen throughout the beneficiaries’ communities. Journey exterior of Iraq for civil society representatives in furtherance of a program’s targets will likely be thought-about on a case-by-case foundation. Moreover, packages proposing actions inside IDP/refugee camps or focusing on Syrian refugees in Iraq is not going to be deemed aggressive. Coaching or workshops could also be used as a device to a bigger purpose however shouldn’t be the principle focus of a program. Initiatives for which assessments have already been accomplished that help focused actions or interventions will likely be considered favorably. Initiatives which have a robust educational, analysis, or convention focus is not going to be deemed aggressive.
To maximise the impression and sustainability of the award(s) that end result(s) from this RSOI/NOFO, DRL reserves the precise to execute a non-competitive continuation modification(s). Any non-competitive continuation is contingent on efficiency and availability of funds. A non-competitive continuation isn’t assured; the Division of State reserves the precise to train or not train the choice to difficulty non-competitive continuation modification(s).
Actions which are not usually thought-about aggressive embrace, however should not restricted, to:
- The availability of humanitarian help;
- English language instruction;
- Improvement of high-tech pc or communications software program and/or {hardware};
- Purely educational 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 impression or should not essential on account of safety considerations;
- Theoretical explorations of human rights or democracy points, together with initiatives 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 direction of a diaspora neighborhood slightly than present residents of focused international locations.
Price range requests could vary from a flooring of $750,000 to a ceiling of $3,000,000. The interval of efficiency could vary between 18 and 48 months. Please word the exception listed to those quantities within the Neighborhood of Observe part above. Upon assessment of the SOI, DRL could request that the interval of efficiency be prolonged to make sure protected and efficient implementation of proposed program actions. Candidates should develop distinctive targets that talk to the classes outlined on this request.
A confirmed skill to implement packages in Iraq have to be demonstrated. All proposed program targets should impression Iraqis contained in the nation. Working with native companions must be a central facet of any proposed program. Proposed packages also needs to thoughtfully and particularly tackle the participation and integration of girls, individuals with disabilities, ethnic and spiritual minority communities, and different marginalized populations in all program components, the place related and attainable. SOIs that make the most of expertise in protected and artistic methods the place attainable to form progressive program methods will likely be considered favorably.
DRL is acutely aware of the ever-changing safety scenario in Iraq. SOIs should realistically tackle the challenges and limitations the applicant would possible face implementing this program, each throughout the present context in Iraq and in anticipation of an additional evolving panorama.
ISIS-Associated Restrictions: ISIS is a chosen International Terrorist Group (FTO) and as a Specifically Designated World Terrorist (SDGT). Moreover, different FTOs and/or SDGTs could have a presence in Iraq. U.S. legislation usually prohibits U.S. individuals from participating in transactions with or for the advantage of SDGTs, and the figuring out provision of “materials help or sources” to FTOs. DRL, in session with its implementing accomplice, will assessment proposed actions for functions of making certain compliance with U.S. legislation. DRL could require modifications to implementer proposed actions and/or implementation of further controls and danger mitigation measures.
Candidates invited to submit full proposals upon completion of the SOI course of may even be requested to submit:
- A safety plan so as to exhibit situational consciousness and preparedness.
- Contingency plans for proposed actions.
- Classes realized from previous packages in Iraq that exhibit how the implementer has safely operated and responded to challenges, studying from each successes and failures, within the working atmosphere.
- A piece within the proposal and funds to replicate acceptable sources and help for the psychosocial well being of employees (i.e., actions can vary from entry to academic supplies and coaching alternatives to counseling companies to different contextually-relevant help).[1]
- A gender evaluation that clearly articulates how this system’s design will tackle the totally different concerns for males, ladies, boys, ladies, and the marginalized teams inside these populations all through implementation.
Eligibility Info
Organizations submitting SOIs should meet the next standards:
- Be a S.- or foreign-based non-profit/non-governmental group (NGO), or a public worldwide group; or
- Be a non-public, public, or state establishment of upper schooling; or
- Be a for-profit group or enterprise (noting there are restrictions on cost of charges and/or earnings below grants and cooperative agreements, together with these outlined in 48 CFR 30, “Price Accounting Requirements Administration”, and 48 CFR 31, “Contract Price Ideas and Procedures”);
- Have current, or the capability to develop, energetic partnerships with thematic or in-country companions, entities, and related stakeholders together with non-public sector accomplice and NGOs; and,
- Have demonstrable expertise administering profitable and ideally comparable packages. DRL reserves the precise to request further background info on organizations that would not have earlier expertise administering federal awards. These candidates could also be topic to restricted funding on a pilot foundation.
Candidates could type consortia and submit a mixed SOI. Nevertheless, one group must be designated because the lead applicant with the opposite members as sub-award companions.
DRL’s choice is to work with non-profit entities; nevertheless, there could also be some events when a for-profit entity is greatest suited. Functions 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 below 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, Price Accounting Requirements Administration, and 48 CFR 31 Contract Price Ideas and Procedures. Please see 2 CFR 200.307 for laws relating to program earnings.
DRL is dedicated to an anti-discrimination coverage in all of its packages and actions. DRL welcomes SOI submissions regardless of race, ethnicity, coloration, creed, nationwide origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender id, incapacity, or different standing.
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 isn’t eligible to use for an help award in accordance with the OMB tips 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 particular person listed on the Excluded Events Listing System in SAM.gov can take part in any actions below 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 particular person is included of their utility.
Organizations should not required to have a legitimate Distinctive Entity Identifier (UEI) quantity—previously known as a DUNS (Knowledge Common Numbering System) quantity—and an energetic SAM.gov registration to use for this solicitation by way of grants.gov. Nevertheless, if a SOI is permitted, these will have to be obtained earlier than a company is ready to submit a full utility. Due to this fact, we suggest beginning the method of acquiring a UEI and SAM.gov registration as quickly as attainable. Please word that there isn’t a value related to UEI or SAM.gov registration.
Utility Necessities, Deadlines, and Technical Eligibility
All SOIs should conform to DRL’s posted Proposal Submission Directions (PSI) for Statements of Curiosity, as up to date in November 2021, out there at https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/programs-and-grants/.
Full SOI submissions should embrace the next:
- Accomplished and signed SF-424 and SF424B, as directed on Grants.gov (please seek advice from DRL’s PSI for SOIs for steerage on finishing the SF-424); and,
- Program Assertion (to not exceed three (3) pages in Microsoft Phrase) that features:
- A desk itemizing:
- Identify of the group;
- The goal nation/international locations;
- The entire quantity of funding requested from DRL, whole quantity of cost-share (if any), and whole program quantity (DRL funds + cost-share); and,
- Program size;
- A synopsis of this system, together with a short assertion on how this system may have a demonstrated impression and have interaction related stakeholders. The SOI ought to establish native companions as acceptable;
- A concise breakdown explicitly figuring out this system’s targets and the actions and anticipated outcomes that contribute to every goal; and,
- A quick description of the applicant(s) that demonstrates the applicant(s) experience and capability to implement this system and handle a U.S. authorities award.
Major organizations could submit as much as three (3) SOIs in response to this RSOI. There are three classes below which organizations could apply, detailed in full in Part I of this doc. As a reminder, these classes are: 1) Efficient Governance, Political Participation, and Civic Activism; 2) Basic Freedoms; and three) Atrocity Prevention, Accountability, and Reconciliation. Candidates should clearly point out which class every utility(s) is submitted for. Every SOI should additionally embrace the group title, proposal title, funds quantity, program size, geographic focus, and level of contact. Organizations could submit a number of SOIs throughout the similar class. In case your proposal addresses a number of classes, please designate a main class that greatest displays the undertaking’s said targets.
Price range requests could vary from a flooring of $750,000 to a ceiling of $3,000,000. The interval of efficiency could vary between 18 and 48 months. SOIs that request budgets and intervals of efficiency exterior of those ranges could also be deemed technically ineligible.
Technically eligible SOIs are these which:
- Arrive electronically through Grants.gov by 11:59 PM EST on Wednesday, January 18, 2022 below the announcement titled “DRL Request for Statements of Curiosity: FY22 DRL Iraq Packages,” funding alternative quantity SFOP0009266;
- Are in English;
- Heed all directions and don’t violate any of the rules said on this solicitation and the PSI for Statements of Curiosity.
For all SOI paperwork please guarantee:
- All pages are numbered;
- 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 might be reformatted to suit inside one web page width.
Grants.gov will routinely log the date and time an utility submission is made, and the Division of State will use this info to find out whether or not an utility has been submitted on time. Late functions are neither reviewed nor thought-about. Recognized system errors attributable to Grants.gov which are exterior of the applicant’s management will likely be reviewed on a case by case foundation. Candidates shouldn’t count on a notification upon DRL receiving their utility. DRL will not settle for SOIs submitted through e-mail, fax, the postal system, supply corporations, or couriers. DRL strongly encourages all candidates to submit SOIs as early as attainable to make sure that the SOI has been obtained and is full, and that no technical points impede well timed utility submissions.
Evaluate and Choice Course of
DRL strives to make sure that every utility receives a balanced analysis by a DRL assessment panel. The Division’s Workplace of Acquisitions Administration (AQM) will decide technical eligibility for all SOI submissions. All technically eligible SOIs will then be reviewed towards the identical 4 standards by a DRL Evaluate Panel: high quality of program thought, addressing limitations to equal participation, program planning, and skill to realize targets/institutional capability.
Moreover, the Panel will consider how the SOI meets the solicitation request, U.S. international coverage targets, and DRL’s general precedence wants. Panelists assessment every SOI individually towards the analysis standards, not towards competing SOIs. To make sure all SOIs obtain a balanced analysis, the DRL Evaluate Panel will assessment the primary web page of the SOI as much as the web page restrict and no additional. All Panelists should signal non-disclosure agreements and battle of curiosity agreements.
Normally, the DRL Evaluate Panel contains representatives from DRL coverage and program workplaces. As soon as a SOI is permitted, chosen candidates will likely be invited to submit full proposal functions primarily based on their SOIs. Until directed in any other case by the group, DRL may refer SOIs for attainable consideration in different U.S. authorities associated funding alternatives.
The Panel could present situations and/or suggestions on SOIs to boost the proposed program, which have to be addressed by the group within the full proposal utility. To make sure efficient use of restricted DRL funds, situations and proposals could embrace requests to extend, lower, make clear, and/or justify prices and program actions.
DRL’s Entrance Workplace reserves the precise to make a ultimate dedication relating to all funding issues, pending funding availability.
Evaluate Standards
High quality of Program Concept
SOIs must be attentive to this system framework and coverage targets recognized within the RSOI, acceptable within the nation/regional context, and may 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 right away impression resulting in long-term, sustainable reforms. DRL prefers new approaches that don’t duplicate efforts by different entities. This doesn’t exclude from consideration initiatives that enhance upon or broaden current profitable initiatives in a brand new and complementary approach. In international locations the place comparable actions are already going down, a proof must be supplied as to how new actions is not going to duplicate or merely add to current actions and the way these efforts will likely be coordinated. SOIs that promote artistic approaches to acknowledged ongoing challenges are extremely inspired. DRL prioritizes undertaking proposals with inclusive approaches for advancing these rights.
Addressing Limitations to Equal Participation
DRL strives to make sure its initiatives 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 strategy devoted to strengthening inclusive societies as a essential pillar of sturdy democracies. Violence focusing 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 primarily based on their faith, gender, disabilities, ethnicity, or sexual orientation and gender id. Candidates ought to describe how programming will impression all of its beneficiaries, together with help that particularly targets communities going through discrimination, and which can be below menace of violence.
Program Planning
A powerful SOI will embrace a transparent articulation of how the proposed program actions and anticipated outcomes (each outputs and outcomes) contribute to particular program targets and the general program purpose. Goals must be formidable, but measurable, results-focused, and achievable in an inexpensive time-frame.
Capacity to Obtain Goals/Institutional Capability
SOIs ought to tackle how this system will interact related stakeholders and may establish native companions as acceptable. If native companions are recognized, candidates ought to describe the division of labor among the many applicant and any native companions. SOIs ought to exhibit the group’s experience and former expertise in administering packages, ideally comparable packages focusing on the requested program space or equally difficult environments.
For extra steerage, please see DRL’s posted Proposal Submission Directions (PSI) for Statements of Curiosity, as up to date in November 2021, out there at https://www.state.gov/proposal-submission-instructions/.
Further Info
DRL is not going to contemplate functions that replicate any sort 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/. Venture actions whose direct beneficiaries are international militaries or paramilitary teams or people is not going to be thought-about for DRL funding given goal limitations on funding.
In accordance with Division of State coverage for terrorism, candidates are suggested that profitable passing of vetting to judge the chance that funds could profit terrorists or their supporters is a situation of award. If chosen for an award, candidates will likely be requested to submit info required by DS Kind 4184, Threat Evaluation Info (connected to this solicitation) about their firm and its principal personnel. Vetting info can also be required for all sub-award efficiency on help awards recognized by the Division of State as presenting a danger of terrorist financing. Vetting info may be requested for undertaking beneficiaries and individuals. Failure to submit info when requested, or failure to go vetting, could also be grounds for rejecting your proposal previous to award.
The Leahy Regulation prohibits Division international help funds from supporting international safety pressure models if the Secretary of State has credible info that the unit has dedicated a gross violation of human rights. Per 22 USC §2378d(a) (2017), “No help shall be furnished below 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 info that such unit has dedicated a gross violation of human rights.” Restrictions could 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 supplied 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 info 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, undertaking beneficiaries or individuals from a international authorities’s safety forces could have to be vetted by the Division earlier than the availability of any help. If a proposed grant or cooperative settlement will present help to international safety forces or personnel, compliance with the Leahy Regulation is required.
Organizations must be conscious that DRL understands that some info contained in SOIs could also be thought-about delicate or proprietary and can make acceptable efforts to guard such info. Nevertheless, organizations are suggested that DRL can not assure that such info is not going to be disclosed, together with pursuant to the Freedom of Info Act (FOIA) or different comparable statutes.
Organizations also needs to remember that if finally chosen for an award, 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, Price Ideas 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 below 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 Commonplace Phrases and Situations might be considered at https://www.state.gov/about-us-office-of-the-procurement-executive/.
The knowledge on this solicitation and DRL’s PSI for SOIs, as up to date in November 2021, is binding and will not be modified by any DRL consultant. Explanatory info supplied by DRL that contradicts this language is not going to be binding. Issuance of the solicitation and negotiation of SOIs or functions doesn’t represent an award dedication on the a part of the U.S. authorities. DRL reserves the precise to cut back, revise, or improve proposal budgets in accordance with the wants of this system analysis necessities.
This solicitation will seem on www.grants.gov, SAMS Domestic (https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com), and DRL’s web site https://www.state.gov/statements-of-interest-requests-for-proposals-and-notices-of-funding-opportunity/. Nevertheless, candidates could solely submit functions through www.grants.gov.
Background Info on DRL and DRL Funding
DRL has the mission of selling democracy and defending human rights globally. DRL helps packages that uphold democratic rules, help and strengthen democratic establishments, promote human rights, stop atrocities, fight and forestall violent extremism, and construct civil society world wide. DRL usually focuses its work in international locations with egregious human rights violations, the place democracy and human rights advocates are below stress, and the place governments are undemocratic or in transition.
Further background info on DRL and the human rights report might 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/.
Contact Info
Grants.gov Helpdesk:
For help with Grants.gov accounts and technical points associated to utilizing the system, please name the Contact Heart at +1 (800) 518-4726 or e-mail [email protected]. The Contact Heart 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.
For technical questions associated to this solicitation, please contact [email protected].
Apart from technical submission questions, in the course of the RSOI interval U.S. Division of State employees in Washington and abroad shall not focus on this competitors with candidates till all the proposal assessment course of has been accomplished and rejection and approval letters have been transmitted.
[1] For reference to worldwide steerage, please see the next: Core Humanitarian Commonplace Dedication 8.9 (http://redirect.state.sbu/?url=http://www.corehumanitarianstandard.org/files/files/CHS-Guidance-Notes-and-Indicators.pdf); and IASC Tips on Psychological Well being and Psychosocial Assist in Emergency Settings Motion Sheet 4.4 (http://redirect.state.sbu/?url=http://www.who.int/mental_health/emergencies/guidelines_iasc_mental_health_psychosocial_june_2007.pdf.
