Deadline: 15 January 2016
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced a new funding opportunity under the Global Human Rights Support Mechanism and it is seeking applications from NGOs for the protection of human rights around the world.
In 2013, USAID developed its Strategy for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (“DRG Strategy”), which established one of its four development objectives as “protect and promote universally recognized human rights.”
In line with these policy commitments, as well as DRG’s strategic objectives to “Serve” and “Learn,” this new global mechanism – the Human Rights Support Mechanism (HRSM) – will enable USAID to provide a wide range of services and support for the purpose of protecting human rights around the world, in USAID presence as well as non-presence countries.
The program objectives include:
- Improved enabling environments for preventing and addressing human rights violations and abuses;
- Effective response actions to mitigate the impact of human rights violations and abuses;
- Effective remedies to human rights violations and abuses;
- Identification of effective approaches for protecting human rights; and
- Rapid response to urgent or unforeseen crises
U.S. non-governmental and non-U.S. non-governmental organizations may participate under this opportunity.
It is important to note that USAID strongly encourages applicants to develop consortia with other responsible and eligible organizations (U.S. and/or non-U.S. organizations) with complementary capabilities and experiences if conducive to the achievement of results under the program objectives.
USAID welcomes applications from organizations that have not previously received financial assistance from USAID.
For more information, visit grants.gov.
