PEMS 9 Notice of Intent.pdf

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Notice of Intent: Program to End Modern Slavery FY 2025

Subject to the availability of funds, the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) intends to award, through a competitive process, one or more cooperative agreements to organizations to implement projects aimed at validating promising intervention approaches. The projects will support the objectives and activities of the Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS). Information about existing PEMS programs is available on our website: https://www.state.gov/program-to-end-modern-slavery.

Background:

The goal of PEMS is to measurably and substantially reduce the prevalence of human trafficking and the harms associated with the crime in targeted populations through innovative interventions driven by research, monitoring, evaluation, and learning, and the expansion of partnerships with government, academia, civil society organizations, international organizations, and the private sector. PEMS-funded efforts conduct scientifically rigorous research to establish evidence on the effects of anti-trafficking (including forced labor and sex trafficking) programs on the reduction of the prevalence of human trafficking through strong monitoring and evaluation practices, evidence-based programming, and the application of victim-centered and trauma-informed approaches and interventions. The U.S. Congress has appropriated $25 million annually since 2016 for PEMS, with $200 million in funding obligated to date.

The TIP Office intends to further build the evidence base around what interventions work effectively to address trafficking in persons through funding the implementation and rigorous evaluation of high-potential and high-impact promising interventions. The TIP Office intends to consider interventions that have some evidence pointing to their effectiveness which could benefit from an evaluation to validate the intervention approach and answer important research questions about what is effective in anti-human trafficking programming. The TIP

Office will consider interventions that have shown promise but have not had the funding to be rigorously evaluated; interventions that have shown success in other fields but have not been adapted and tested as a human trafficking https://www.state.gov/program-to-end-modern-slavery intervention; and interventions for which there is a design for programming supported by significant research, which have not yet had the funding to implement and evaluate. Local expertise will be considered critical for implementing projects under this future opportunity. PEMS also encourages the use of partnerships with governments, academia, civil society, the private sector, other funders and international organizations to advance the goals of the program and improve collaboration on the sustainable reduction of the prevalence of human trafficking and the harms associated with the crime.

This potential funding opportunity will build on and complement prior PEMS programming approaches and initiatives, such as Intervention Development

Research (funded in 2023) and the Human Trafficking Research Initiative competitive fund managed by Innovations in Poverty Action.

NOTE: This is a Notice of Intent. An announcement is not related to this notice.

The TIP Office is not accepting applications at this time. The TIP Office anticipates that a Notice of Funding Opportunity will be released within the next couple of months on https://www.grants.gov. Any commercial, international, educational, or non-profit organization(s), including any faith-based, community-based, or public international organization(s) are eligible to apply when the Notice of

Funding Opportunity is published. Lack of past experience with U.S. Department of State cooperative agreements, grants, or contracts does not bar eligibility. It is mandatory for all applicants to obtain a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) and to register in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov), unless they meet the criteria for an exception. It is also mandatory for all subrecipients to obtain a UEI.

A recipient may not make a subaward to a subrecipient unless that subrecipient has obtained and provided to the recipient a UEI. A subrecipient is not required to be registered in SAM.gov. Organizations should verify their UEI number or take the steps needed to obtain one as soon as possible. Instructions for obtaining a

UEI number can be found at https://sam.gov/content/entity-registration.

Selected grantees will also be required to have a full active registration in the

System for Award Management (SAM) found at https://sam.gov/content/home.

https://www.grants.gov/ https://sam.gov/content/home.