Eligible individuals, community-based organisations and non-government organisations have been given a July 29 deadline to submit concepts notes for projects, covering a range of areas, which could earn them grants of up to US$24,000 from the United States Embassy in Kingston.

The Embassy said that, for its 2022 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), it is seeking proposals for projects in the following areas:

• Programmes that demonstrate active partnership between the United States and Jamaica to address new and evolving security challenges, including cybersecurity;
• Programmes that support a long-term investment in US-Jamaican ties through educational, cultural, professional, and other exchanges between our two countries;
• Programmes that have a national reach and impact by linking likeminded organisations across community divides; and
• Programmes that highlight or foster US-Jamaican cooperation to address the climate crisis.

The Embassy said the proposals should demonstrate creativity, substance, and relevance to national goals relating to one of the topic areas above. Preference will also be given to projects that align with US State Department goals of:

1. Safeguarding the Homeland and US Citizens
2. Increased Trade and Shared Economic Growth
3. Addressing Caribbean Health Challenges
4. Strengthening the US-Jamaica Partnership on Global Issues on the Island, throughout the region and around the world.

Submissions should follow the template below:

2022 US Embassy Kingston Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)

Project Concept Note

The project concept note should be no more than three pages. It should include the proposed project category (e.g. education) and the proposed project goals. How will this project meet the goal of empowering Jamaica women or girls?

Sample:

This project aims to promote and enable linkages and collaborations among Cockpit Country researchers in Jamaica. Specifically, it will bring together a group of motivated and published scholars, in order to build a network between academics and practitioners, to plan the way forward in promoting sustainable conservation practices in the Cockpit Country and investigate strategies for collaborative research through networking and information management.  The importance of the project stems from: the need to support productive dialogue in the public sphere, particularly among relevant stakeholders.

Only submissions with the required application template and concept note are eligible.

Submissions should be emailed to: [email protected].

The deadline for submission of the initial proposal template is July 29, 2022.  Shortlisted applicants will be invited to submit full proposals by August 19, 2022.