Project Grant SISNDF24GR0007

This $688,989 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation under the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (CFDA 19.224) is intended to enhance Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) membership and implementation in the African region. The awardee, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), will provide technical cooperation, capacity building, and advisory services to governments in Africa to strengthen...

This Project Grant award of $242,437.00 from the U.S. Department of State's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (CFDA 19.224) aims to improve implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) in the Indo-Pacific region. The award seeks to mobilize parliamentarians from targeted countries to develop and further disseminate action plans for UNSCR 1540 implementation. The grant was awarded to Parliamentarians For Global Action and has a performance period from November 1, 2024 to...

This Project Grant award, valued at $2,755,000.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of State's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (CFDA 19.224) to facilitate sustainable, long-term peaceful collaboration between migrant scientists and their local research community in Kazakhstan. The award, effective January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2027, will support technical assistance, capacity building, training, research, and strategic interventions aimed at enhancing international security and...

This is a $215,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, under the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program (CFDA 19.901). The project aims to equip partner nations with capabilities to identify and counteract chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) disinformation, and foster a unified approach to craft and integrate strategies into public messaging and crisis communications plans....

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded a $1,970,774 Project Grant under the Office of the Biological Policy Staff (CFDA 19.334) program to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). The grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, supports UNODA's efforts to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention and operationalize the UN Secretary-General's mechanism for investigating alleged use of chemical and...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation will provide $200,000 through a Cooperative Agreement to CRDF Global of Arlington, Virginia to deliver a workshop in South Africa from August 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The workshop aims to highlight the importance of a robust security culture and structured employee engagement as foundations for an effective insider threat mitigation program. This award is being made through the Department of State's...

The Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded a $175,423 cooperative agreement to CRDF Global to enhance physical security measures at a high containment laboratory in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo from June 2022 through December 2023. The funding supports the Global Threat Reduction program, which aims to reduce biological threats through securing vulnerable high-containment pathogen stocks. Specifically, the award will enhance physical...

The Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded a $144,967 cooperative agreement to Soter Bioconsulting under the Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033) to support developing high containment laboratory operations and maintenance plans and procedures in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. As part of the Global Threat Reduction program's efforts to reduce biological threats, this cooperative...

CRDF Global will organize and implement relevant engagements for the BEP, E-TECH, CN-MCF, Iraq programs under a $8.8 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. The award, made on October 1, 2022 and set to be completed by December 31, 2023, will support the Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033). This program aims to reduce threats posed by terrorist organizations or states of concern through...

The Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded a $200,000 cooperative agreement to the Georgian Center for Strategy and Development from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The funding supports projects under the Global Threat Reduction program, which aims to counter the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction through capacity building and technical assistance initiatives. Specifically, the cooperative agreement will enhance the capabilities...