Building Community Resilience

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ProgramDescription and Requirements : TheU.S. Embassy seeks CVE program proposals that will develop new efforts andexpand existing efforts at the community level to counter violent extremistrecruitment and radicalization to violence by funding activities that enhancethe resilience of communities being targeted by violent extremists forrecruitment, provide alternatives to individuals who have started down a roadto violent extremism, and that create or amplify alternative messages toterrorist/violent extremist recruitment and radicalization efforts. ProgramPriorities: • Developing resilience; • Training andengaging with community members; • Managingintervention activities; • Challenging thenarrative; and • Building capacityof community-level non-profit organizations active in CVE. The application should: Address how the project willcontribute to the priorities listed above; Enumerate specific outputs andoutcomes to be achieved by the end of the grant period; Describe American content and/orinvolvement in the project; Clearly specify the audiences to be reachedand the geographic locations of program activities, and proposed programs inmultiple locations, should explain how that will be accomplished; Explain how programs and activitieswill be monitored and evaluated; Describe how elements of the projectwill have a multiplier effect or be sustainable beyond the life of the grant; Demonstrate competency to manage allfinancial and oversight aspects of the project, including participant costs andtransparent arrangements of sub-grant relationships with partner organizations,if applicable.

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