Opportunity Information: Apply for PGO MRT FY2021 ARDF
The U.S. Department of State, through the U.S. Embassy in Nouakchott, is running an open grant competition to fund projects that strengthen human rights, fundamental freedoms, and good governance in Mauritania. The opportunity is positioned around near-term political milestones, with an emphasis on building practical capacity and improving the broader human rights environment ahead of the 2023 municipal and legislative elections and the 2024 presidential election. Applicants are expected to propose concrete program concepts that align with the embassy's priorities and show how their activities will produce measurable improvements for communities, institutions, and civil society actors.
The grant is organized around three main objectives, and proposed projects should be designed to achieve at least one of them. The first objective focuses on improving protection of human rights and human dignity, specifically including efforts to combat slavery and gender-based violence. The second objective centers on promoting good governance by fighting corruption, including corruption tied to the management of natural resources. The third objective targets political inclusion by increasing the active participation of women, youth, and marginalized groups in the upcoming election cycle, while also offering technical support to the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) so it can better deliver credible, transparent, free, and fair elections.
The embassy lays out several expected results that help clarify what success should look like. Strong applications will show how they will equip civil society organizations, human rights defenders, and community members with skills to advocate for reforms and to support victims of abuses. The program aims to raise political participation among women, youth, and marginalized communities, not only through encouragement but through practical voter education and engagement strategies. Another key result is institutional: improving CENI's ability to administer elections effectively, which is intended to increase public confidence in the electoral system. Finally, the work is also meant to discourage corrupt practices by authorities by strengthening citizen oversight, awareness, and accountability mechanisms.
In terms of activities, the opportunity anticipates hands-on programming such as workshops, public awareness campaigns, technical forums, and other capacity-building efforts that can support both government counterparts and civil society. A recurring theme is tangible, real-world outcomes rather than abstract advocacy alone. One example the embassy highlights is improving access to civil registration documentation for victims of slavery and their children, since lacking legal identity documents can block people from exercising basic rights and accessing essential services. Other activity areas include increasing political participation among women and marginalized communities, running public education efforts to curb corruption, and providing direct technical assistance to CENI, including training, operational support, and potentially supplies or equipment to strengthen election administration.
For Objective 1, suggested actions include anti-slavery initiatives that address both awareness and practical barriers, especially the problem of limited civil registration for people affected by slavery and their families. Proposals can involve working with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to facilitate access to documentation and then scaling successful approaches to reach broader local, regional, and national stakeholders. The grant also encourages programming to combat gender-based violence, particularly violence affecting girls and women, and to strengthen the capacity of human rights activists to respond effectively. Coordination with the Ministry of Social Affairs' Observatory for the Rights of Women and Girls (ONDFF) and relevant UN agencies is explicitly mentioned as an option, signaling a preference for programs that connect with existing institutional and international efforts.
For Objective 2, the focus is on improving democratic governance and countering corruption, including in natural resource management. The embassy points toward engaging civil society organizations and, where appropriate, the press to run focus groups, trainings, workshops, and related capacity-building designed to reach wide audiences. Priority themes include raising awareness about resource depletion, improving understanding and use of monitoring and verification tools, and building an informed citizenry that can recognize and challenge corrupt behavior. In practice, this could include community education on transparency, training CSOs to track resource-related data, or strengthening the ability of journalists and watchdog groups to report responsibly and effectively on corruption risks.
For Objective 3, the opportunity emphasizes political inclusion and election integrity. Projects can support women, youth, and marginalized communities to participate more actively in the 2023 and 2024 elections, while also offering technical assistance to CENI. The notice specifically calls out training, capacity building, and support resources that enable smooth implementation of municipal and legislative elections, with the broader goal of improving transparency and credibility. This suggests projects that combine citizen-facing voter education and inclusion efforts with institution-facing election administration support are especially aligned with the opportunity's intent.
The grant also sets out performance measurement expectations. Every project should be designed to produce measurable impact related to human rights, fundamental freedoms, and governance, and applicants must include at least one required performance indicator both in their proposal section on indicators and in the Statement of Work. The listed indicators include: the number of election officials trained with U.S. Government assistance; the number of individuals receiving voter education through U.S.-assisted programs; the number of U.S.-assisted civil society organizations that participate in legislative proceedings or engage in advocacy with the national legislature and its committees; and the number of U.S.-supported national human rights commissions or similar independent institutions that actively pursued allegations of human rights abuses during the year. These indicators signal that the embassy is looking for programs with clear outputs (trainings delivered, people reached) and governance-relevant outcomes (institutional action, credible participation, accountability).
Administratively, the opportunity is issued by the Department of State, U.S. Mission to Mauritania, under Funding Opportunity Number PGO MRT FY2021 ARDF. It is structured as a grant, with an award ceiling of $200,000 and an expectation of about three awards. The opportunity was created June 29, 2022, with an original closing date of August 15, 2022. The listing notes eligibility as "Others" with additional details referenced in the full notice, so applicants would need to consult the full eligibility language to confirm whether their organization type qualifies.Apply for PGO MRT FY2021 ARDF
- The Department of State, U.S. Mission to Mauritania in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Promote Human Rights, Fundamental Freedoms, and Good Governance in Mauritania" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.225.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 29, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 15, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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