Opportunity Information: Apply for SFOP0001570
The FY 2017 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Safe from the Start initiative is a U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) grant competition focused on strengthening how the global humanitarian system prevents, mitigates, and responds to gender-based violence (GBV) in emergencies. Safe from the Start, launched in 2013, is meant to push the humanitarian community to treat GBV risk reduction and survivor services as immediate, core priorities from the earliest stages of a crisis, rather than optional or delayed add-ons. In practical terms, the initiative is designed to change the system itself by improving accountability and ensuring that humanitarian actors consistently deliver quality GBV programming and GBV risk mitigation across sectors during conflict and disaster responses. It also represents the U.S. government commitment to the Call to Action on Protection from Gender-based Violence in Emergencies, specifically aiming to close gaps identified in the Call to Action Roadmap so the overall system is more responsible and measurable in what it delivers.
This particular NOFO is narrowly targeted at work that improves institutional policies, standards, and accountability mechanisms related to gender equality and GBV in conflict-affected humanitarian settings. PRM is looking for proposals aligned with Outcomes 1 and 2 of the Call to Action Roadmap, with an emphasis on strengthening internal agency commitments and system-wide approaches that make organizations answerable for preventing and addressing GBV. The opportunity also highlights a strong preference for efforts that build inter-agency and inter-sectoral leadership and improve coordination, not only at headquarters or global levels but also in ways that translate into more coherent coordination and performance in the field. The underlying idea is that better rules, standards, leadership structures, and accountability systems upstream will improve the consistency and quality of GBV-related action across humanitarian operations downstream.
A key point is what this funding is not meant to support. PRM makes clear that it is not seeking typical country-level service delivery projects or general field implementation for affected populations under this NOFO. Single-country or country-program specific interventions that look like standard GBV prevention and response programming will not be considered. Instead, proposals must be globally relevant, designed to apply across multiple locations, and ideally structured to work through multiple partners when appropriate. Applicants interested in field-level integration and implementation innovations are directed to other PRM funding opportunities, including regional NOFOs and a separate Call to Action-related NOFO that focuses on different Roadmap outcomes.
Projects proposed under this announcement must fit within one or more of three thematic areas. The first theme, Accountability and Institutionalization, centers on creating or implementing institutional policies, standards, and practices that make agencies more accountable for GBV outcomes, including improving human resources approaches so staffing structures, job expectations, performance management, and organizational culture reflect recognized global standards. The second theme, Quality Control and Management, emphasizes strengthening the knowledge and capacity of leadership, staff, and local partners, and embedding GBV considerations into organizational standards, tools, guidance, and operational processes. This theme explicitly includes maintaining a strong focus on women and girls as a pathway to gender equality across humanitarian operations and programming. The third theme, Leadership and Coordination, focuses on improving GBV coordination and leadership, including strengthening the global GBV Area of Responsibility (AoR) and enhancing inter-agency and inter-sector coordination and performance at field level. This can include rapid response mechanisms or deployments intended to quickly establish or reinforce emergency coordination systems in a structured and repeatable way.
Applicants are encouraged to ground their work in established humanitarian best practice, particularly the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action, as relevant to the proposed activities. Another defining requirement is that PRM will only consider projects where at least 50 percent of the targeted beneficiaries are refugees, returnees, and/or other PRM populations of concern, reflecting PRM's mandate related to protection, assistance, and durable solutions for people affected by conflict and displacement.
From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity was issued by PRM as a discretionary award using a Cooperative Agreement instrument (meaning PRM anticipates substantial involvement in the funded work). The funding opportunity number is SFOP0001570, listed under CFDA 19.522. The award ceiling is $1,000,000. The posting date is March 17, 2017, and the original closing date is May 18, 2017. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations (both with and without 501(c)(3) status, excluding institutions of higher education in those categories) and certain other eligible entities as indicated in the listing. International multilateral organizations, such as UN agencies, are specifically instructed not to apply through Grants.gov for this announcement; instead, those organizations are directed to contact the designated PRM Program Officer prior to the closing date if they want to pursue funding relevant to the NOFO.
Overall, the NOFO is best understood as a system-strengthening grant opportunity rather than a direct service-delivery call. PRM is using Safe from the Start funding to push the humanitarian sector toward stronger institutional commitments, clearer standards, better management and quality assurance, and more effective leadership and coordination, with the goal of making GBV prevention, risk mitigation, and survivor support more reliable and more accountable across humanitarian responses worldwide.Apply for SFOP0001570
- The Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2017 Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Safe from the Start initiative to improve global institutionalization and accountability for gender–based violence" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.522.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2017-03-17.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-05-18. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.
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