Budget Category Descriptions Guide.docx
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- SCAISB-24-AW-003-01282024
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Department of State US Embassy Islamabad
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This document provides budget category descriptions for a federal grant opportunity through the Public Diplomacy Grants Program. The grant opportunity aims to enhance awareness of the U.S.-Pakistan partnership by funding a project to conduct reporting tours for 120 local broadcast and digital journalists and emerging social media influencers from rural areas of Sindh and Balochistan in Pakistan. The project will provide training and facilitate immersive reporting experiences to produce fact-based coverage that deepens understanding of the strategic U.S.-Pakistan alliance among Pakistani public and leaders. The project implementation period is 12 to 18 months with a funding range of $200,000 to $250,000. Eligible grantees are U.S. or Pakistan-based organizations with offices or partners in Pakistan. The project will include training workshops and reporting tours within Pakistan featuring experts, policymakers, and community leaders. A written or broadcast deliverable is due at the conclusion of each tour. The grant is assigned under the Public Diplomacy Programs for Afghanistan and Pakistan federal grant program administered by the U.S. Department of State.
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Budget Category Descriptions – Help Aid
1. Personnel: An organization’s Full-Time or Part Time attributed to the award activities.
2. Fringe Benefits: Employer pension plans, health benefits, or other benefits that conform to an organization’s established policy or Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA).
3. Travel: Domestic and international airfares, lodging and meals allowances, and local travel directly attributable to an award activity. Refer to Federal Travel Regulations per diem rates for cost reasonableness.
4. Equipment: Tangible non-expendable personal property having a useful life of more than one (1) year and an acquisition cost of $5,000 or more per unit or consistent with recipient policy, lower limits may be established.
5. Supplies: Expendable (consumable), small general office items, adding machines, calculators or computer software, etc with a value of less than $5,000.
6. Contractual: A procurement contract under an award or sub-tier awards for goods or services.
7. Construction: Major costs for new, rearrangement, alteration, reconversion, or renovation of facilities.
8. Other Direct Costs: Other direct costs could include participant support costs and any program related costs or materials.
9. Indirect Costs: Costs that are incurred for a common or joint purpose and cannot be identified readily and specifically with a particular award or other activity (accounting, utilities, legal).
10. Total Direct Costs: All costs chargeable to an award excluding indirect costs.
11. Total Award Costs: All costs chargeable to an award, including indirect costs.
12. Cost Sharing: The portion of the project or program costs not borne by DOS or another federal agency, which includes cash and third-party in-kind contributions.
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