The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA) invites proposals for Organizational Interest and Capacity Questionnaire to be used to recognize pre-selected partners for future funding opportunities. The successful applicants will be asked to submit full applications for select future funding opportunities over a period of four years. Invitations will be based on priorities and objectives of NEA.
NEA invites organizations that wish to be considered as pre-identified partners to complete a web-based questionnaire and submit Statements of Interest through this Questionnaire. The Questionnaire will provide information about each applicant’s organizational mission and activities, functional and technical expertise, country experience, organizational approach/methodology, experience working with nongovernmental, governmental, and/or private sector partners in the MENA region, and relevant accomplishments.
Eligibility Information
All applications will be screened by the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to determine whether each applicant meets all of the program eligibility requirements detailed below.
Applications that do not demonstrate that they meet all of the eligibility requirements will not advance to the Technical Review stage. Nothing can be added to an application once it has been submitted.
Eligible Applicants
The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs is committed to anti-discrimination policy in all its programs and activities. NEA welcomes proposals irrespective of applicants’ race, ethnicity, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. Statements of interest are invited from organizations working with minority, disenfranchised, and lesser-served communities, including women, people with disabilities, and youth.
Eligible applicants include any registered U.S. or foreign non-profit organization; nongovernmental organization; private institution; institutions of higher education (non-profit or forprofit); commercial entity; or small business. The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs strongly encourages applications from experienced civil society organizations in the Middle East and North Africa region. International partners (non-governmental organizations with principal bases of operations outside the Middle East and North Africa) are also encouraged to apply.
Last date for submitting the applications is September 30, 2011.
For more information and details, you can visit this link and search by Funding Opportunity Number NEAPI-11-AW-036-MENA-080111.
