FP Logic Model Template and How to Guide (Countering FTO Illicit Mining).docx
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This file is a Logic Model Template and How-to Guide designed for applicants to the Countering Foreign Terrorist Organization Use of Illicit Mining federal grant opportunity administered by the Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism. The template provides a structured framework for proposal development, enabling applicants to articulate the logical progression of their proposed initiatives from inputs through activities, outputs, and outcomes to long-term impacts. The guide instructs applicants on how to complete the logic model by identifying resources needed, describing specific interventions targeting FTO and TCO involvement in illicit mining, defining measurable outputs and outcomes, and demonstrating the anticipated impact on countering terrorist financing and disrupting illicit supply chains. The template emphasizes the importance of clearly linking program activities to counterterrorism objectives while considering the involvement of civilian law enforcement, mining sector regulators, judges, prosecutors, and civil society stakeholders as required by the opportunity.
The logic model serves as a critical planning and evaluation tool for the Cooperative Agreement funding mechanism under CFDA 19.701 (Global Counterterrorism Programs), with awards typically ranging from approximately $246,000 to $11.8 million for performance periods of 12 to 36 months. Applicants must use this template to demonstrate how their proposed capacity-building initiatives will produce sustainable results in priority regions, with particular attention to measurable indicators that track progress toward reducing FTO exploitation of illicit mining resources. The guide includes instructional content on completing each section, ensuring alignment with Department of State counterterrorism priorities and enabling evaluators to assess proposal quality and feasibility during the competitive review process.
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Logic Model How-To Guide This How-To Guide is designed to help CT grant applicants and grantees develop and refine logic models and theories of change. 18 FAM 301.4-2 requires every program to create a logic model to articulate how and why the program is expected to contribute to achieving the stated CT program outcomes.
The logic model documents expected linkages between program inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes, and sets the foundation against which progress can be monitored and evaluated. It is a visual representation that maps and shows the sequence of related events connecting planned goals and objectives with desired outcomes.
This visual “map” depicts the logical relationships between the need for the program, the resources (inputs), and activities that will address those needs, what will be produced or delivered or who will be trained from these activities (outputs), and the changes/achievements deriving from these outputs (outcomes).
The logic model has several components, which are described below:
I. Logic Model: Components/Examples
| Component |
| Explanation |
| Examples |
Inputs What are the resources you need to carry out the program?
| The resources you will need to carry out the program activities and deliverables. |
| · Staff |
· Equipment
· Facilities
Activities What activities will be conducted to meet the needs or address the problem?
An action or process undertaken over a specific period by an organization. Activities convert inputs (resources) to products or services to achieve outputs and outcomes.
· Trainings
· Meetings
· Provision of equipment
Outputs What will be produced or delivered or who will participate in activities?
| Direct products, services, equipment or other tangible results produced as a result of the activities. |
| · Participants |
· Trainings completed
· Curricula completed
· Equipment delivered
CT Outcomes What changes do we expect the program to achieve?
| The outcomes for this program should already be written into the program’s NOFO, and applicants should incorporate these into their proposal and, if the applicant wins the award, into a SOW. Please also copy and paste those into your logic model. |
| See “III. Logic Model: Example” below for illustrative CT outcomes. |
Objectives
The objectives are written into the program’s NOFO, and applicants should incorporate these into their proposal and, if applicant wins the award, into a SOW. Please also copy and paste these into your logic model.
This will already be included in the NOFO, likely pulling from the National Security Strategy, Agency Strategic Plan 2026-2030, National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM)-2, Executive Orders, and/or other relevant, high-level strategies.
Goals
The goals should be written into the program’s NOFO, and applicants should incorporate these into their proposal and, if applicant wins the award, into a SOW. Please also copy and paste these into your logic model.
This will already be included in the NOFO, likely pulling from the National Security Strategy, Agency Strategic Plan 2026-2030, National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM)-2, Executive Orders, and/or other relevant, high-level strategies.
Assumptions What factors need to occur, or which recipients or grantees need to be involved, for the program to be successful?
| Beliefs that the program and the people involved have about the ways in which the program will work. Assumptions frequently involve: the country’s political, social, economic, and security conditions; skills and knowledge level of intended recipients; organizational expertise; anticipated level of engagement by recipients, etc. If these hypotheses do not hold true, they can affect the progress or success of a program. |
| · Recipients will be motivated to engage in the program activities. |
· Staff will have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver the program effectively.
· Recipient country organizations will collaborate and support the program.
· Relevant policies and regulations will remain stable throughout the program duration.
| Theory of Change |
| A brief statement that ties a logic model together by summarizing why, based on available evidence and consideration of other possible paths, the changes described in the model are expected to occur. It explains why we believe our program activities will result in particular outcomes. These can be written as “If X (activities), then Y (outcomes).” |
| See “III. Logic Model: Example” below for illustrative CT outcomes. |
U.S Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism February 2026
II. Logic Model: Template Use the template below to fill in each column to develop the logic model for your program.
Inputs
Activities
Outputs
CT Outcomes
| Objectives |
| Goals |
Which resources will you need to carry out the program?
Which activities will be conducted to meet the needs or address the problem?
What will be produced or delivered or who will participate in activities?
[Add from the NOFO into proposal and, if applicant wins the award, into a SOW]
What are the changes we expect the program to achieve?
[Add from the NOFO into proposal and, if applicant wins the award, into a SOW]
[Add from the NOFO into proposal and, if applicant wins the award, into a SOW]
Assumptions: Which factors need to occur, or which recipients or grantees need to be involved, for the program to be successful?
Theory of Change: Why do we think the particular changes described in our logic model are expected to occur?
III. Logic Model: Example The following is an illustrative example of a logic model intended to provide additional guidance to applicants in preparing their proposals’ logic model. Applicants should therefore view this as a reference tool rather than as a substitute to use in place of developing their own logic model.
Inputs
Activities
Outputs
CT Outcomes
| Objectives |
| Goals |
Staff Equipment Facilities Implementers Training and technical assistance activities are provided.
Needs assessment conducted.
Resident Legal Advisors, Intermittent Legal Advisors provide mentoring to recipient country officials.
Events on prosecutions across recipient country organizations are coordinated.
Priority recipient country officials complete training courses.
A curriculum is developed based on a needs assessment.
Priority recipient country officials complete mentorship.
Prosecutions (CT Standard Outcome) - Outcome 1: Adopt U.S.-approved legal standards and practices enabling the prosecution of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and other terrorist actors that threaten the U.S. homeland, persons, and facilities.
Prosecutions (CT Standard Outcome) – Outcome 2: Protect U.S. citizens and interests by strengthening the prosecution of FTOs and other terrorist actors, consistent with U.S.-approved legal standards and practices.
This will already be included in the NOFO, likely pulling from the National Security Strategy, Agency Strategic Plan 2026-2030, National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM)-2, Executive Orders, and/or other relevant, high-level strategies.
This will already be included in the NOFO, likely pulling from the National Security Strategy, Agency Strategic Plan 2026-2030, National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM)-2, Executive Orders, and/or other relevant, high-level strategies.
Assumptions:
The threat of terrorism affecting the recipient country and the surrounding region will remain at or near levels experienced at the start of the program.
CT, DoS, and the U.S. government will continue to prioritize CT prosecutions programming.
Recipient country’s political will in support of the program will remain strong.
Theory of Change:
If recipient country officials’ abilities to investigate and prosecute terrorist crimes are improved under a strengthened prosecutions-based legislative framework, then successful conviction of terrorist suspects will increase.
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