Project Grant SISNDF24GR0001

This Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation Project Grant award under the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program (CFDA 19.901) of $400,010.00 provides funding to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to enhance partner countries' capabilities to identify, investigate, and disrupt financial and trade activities that support weapons of mass destruction proliferation. The award, with a performance period from October 2, 2023 to...

The Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded a $1.972 million Project Grant to the International Science And Technology Center to support emigre scientists via research grants and organize seminars to support small modular reactor capacity building efforts from October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. This award is being administered under the Department of State's Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033), which supports nonproliferation programs...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) will fund a $300,000 study on ethical practices for research conducted in armed conflict zones. The project aims to map existing knowledge on research ethics in conflict settings, document current practices around research data collection, storage, and security, and develop best practices and guidelines to protect researchers, subjects, and affected communities. Outputs...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded $199,774.98 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) cooperative agreement to Pacific Forum International. Through this award, Japanese print media journalists will travel to the United States from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023 to enhance their understanding of the Sino-Russian approach to maritime issues and the significance of U.S.-Japan cooperation in maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region. The...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (CFDA 19.900 - AEECA/ESF Public Diplomacy Programs) provides $100,000.00 to support local, investigative journalism initiatives in targeted rural, historically marginalized areas. The purpose is to promote transparency, accountability, and combat disinformation. The award is granted to Ustav Nezavisle Zurnalistiky, Z.u., a non-profit organization based in Czechia, with a performance...

The Research Foundation For The State University of New York will provide services to strengthen ministerial-level crisis response and attribution to weapons of mass destruction assassinations during state disinformation attacks in Estonia under a $209,000 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. The award, made under the Global Threat Reduction program of the Department of State's Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction,...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of State's Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program (CFDA 19.901), provides $215,000 to the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) to equip partner nations with capabilities to identify and counteract CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) disinformation, and to foster a unified approach to craft and integrate strategies into public messaging and crisis...

This $1,056,886 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism under the Global Counterterrorism Programs (CFDA 19.701) will support the placement of two U.S. citizens in 2-year Junior Professional Officer (JPO) appointments within the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism (UNOCT) and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) in New York. The purpose is to build law enforcement counterterrorism capacity. The award period runs from...

The Albanian Center for Quality Journalism received a $120,000 project grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs to promote independent ethical investigative journalism in Albania. The grant was awarded on October 1, 2021 with a completion date of December 31, 2022 under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia/European Stability Initiative Public Diplomacy Programs) CFDA #19.900. This federal program provides civil...

This $2,564,900 Cooperative Agreement award was provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (CFDA 19.345) federal grant program. The project aims to promote the safety of journalists and strengthen democratic processes in at least five regions of the world. The award recipient is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), an international...