09 April 2004
U.S. Seeks New Ideas on Reducing Land Mine Threats
State Department requesting suggestions from NGO's
The Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is issuing its first-ever open Request for Applications for grants to advance humanitarian mine action.
A Department of State spokesman advised April 9 that the Bureau -- through its Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement -- is prepared to provide up to $4.2 million dollars in funding support in the form of grants to domestic and foreign nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and international organizations in six specified categories.
The categories identified for this mine removal and abatement initiative include:
-- community-based mine risk education;
-- training courses and curriculum development for national mine action plans;
-- development of methodologies for site surveys of abandoned and hazardous ordnance sites;
-- development of host-nation program management capabilities to achieve a "mine-safe" condition;
-- review of Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement-sponsored indigenous humanitarian mine action capacity-building efforts; and
-- private sector engagement to raise public awareness of and support for humanitarian mine action and destruction of abandoned ordnance.
Grant applications for unsolicited projects also will be accepted. Applications must be submitted by May 7.
Following is the text of a State Department note:
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Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
April 9, 2004
Department of State Issues "Request for Applications" for Humanitarian Mine Action Grants
The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is issuing its first ever, open Request for Applications for grants to advance humanitarian mine action.
Grant applications will be accepted from domestic and foreign non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, and international organizations in six specified areas. The Department of State is prepared to provide up to $4.2 million dollars in funding support for this process.
The six categories being considered for grant applications in 2004 are: 1) community-based mine risk education in Sudan; 2) strategic planning training course and curriculum development for national mine action plans; 3) development of abandoned ordnance and hazardous ordnance site survey methodology; 4) development of training methodology and curriculum to fully enable host-nation program management capabilities to achieve a "mine-safe" endstate; 5) review of Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement-sponsored indigenous humanitarian mine action capacity-building efforts; and 6) private sector engagement to raise public awareness of and support for humanitarian mine action and destruction of abandoned ordnance. Grant applications for unsolicited projects may also be submitted.
Depending on the quality of the proposals and changes in programming assumptions, the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement reserves the right to make no awards.
Information on the application review, grant award process, how to develop and submit a grant application, suggested grant formats, and related mandatory application forms can be found at www.state.gov/t/pm/wra/c11811.htm on the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement's website. The deadline for submissions is May 7, 2004.
To learn about the U.S. Department of State's humanitarian mine action programs and small arms and light weapons abatement efforts around the world, visit www.state.gov/t/pm/wra.
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(Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
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