Opportunity Information: Apply for SFOP0010286
The DRL Burma Human Rights Documentation Project is a U.S. Department of State funding opportunity run by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) to support efforts focused on documenting serious human rights violations connected to Burma (Myanmar), especially violations affecting ethnic and religious minority communities, including Rohingya communities. The program is designed to help civil society actors strengthen their ability to investigate, verify, and record abuses in a credible way, so that this information can be used to support justice efforts, accountability processes, and longer-term prevention of future atrocities. In practice, the opportunity is aimed at organizations that can improve how evidence is gathered and preserved, protect the people doing the documenting, and ensure that documentation contributes to real pathways toward accountability rather than being collected in isolation.
The grant emphasizes three core outcomes. First, it prioritizes strengthening civil society-led investigations and documentation of violations and abuses, which can include building technical skills, improving documentation standards, enhancing secure data practices, and supporting networks that collect and corroborate information across affected communities. Second, it supports pro-democracy activists and others pursuing justice for victims and accountability for perpetrators, suggesting an interest in connecting documentation to case-building, advocacy, and other accountability mechanisms that can respond to atrocities and systemic abuse. Third, it seeks to promote non-recurrence of atrocities, meaning projects should not only focus on recording what happened, but also contribute to preventing repetition through credible documentation, support for accountability, and efforts that reinforce deterrence and institutional or societal safeguards.
This is a discretionary grant competition (Funding Opportunity Number SFOP0010286) with an award ceiling of $1,500,000 per award and an expectation of up to three awards. The opportunity is listed under CFDA 19.345 and falls under a broad activity category labeled "Other," which often signals flexibility in the types of programming approaches DRL may consider as long as they clearly advance the stated objectives. The original application closing date was May 6, 2024, and the opportunity was posted on March 4, 2024.
Eligibility is broad. DRL invites applications from U.S.-based and non-U.S.-based non-profit organizations and NGOs, public international organizations, private or public institutions of higher education (including state universities), and for-profit entities or businesses. While for-profits are allowed to apply, the bureau states a preference to work with non-profit entities, noting that a for-profit may be selected when it is uniquely well suited to deliver the work. Overall, the opportunity is geared toward organizations with demonstrated capacity to operate in sensitive human rights environments, collaborate with affected communities and civil society actors, and manage the security, ethical, and evidentiary demands that come with human rights documentation and accountability-oriented programming.Apply for SFOP0010286
- The Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "DRL Burma Human Rights Documentation Project" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.345.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-03-04.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-05-06. (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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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