USAID/Senegal’s Mauritania Country Office seeks call
for concept notes under the YouthPower 2 (YP2) APS umbrella to create a new
program to create socio-economic opportunities for youth while preventing
violent extremism in Mauritania.
The YouthPower 2 (YP2) Annual Program Statement (APS) is an
unfunded umbrella APS designed to creatively engage with, among others,
youth-led and youth-serving organizations, and systems, to generate
cross-sectoral, positive youth development outcomes.
USAID Nafoore aims to strengthen the
resilience capacities of vulnerable Mauritanian youth in urban and peri-urban
communities in order to prevent radicalization and counter recruitment efforts
by VEOs. Youth in target environments for this Activity include those at the
intersection of socio-economic vulnerability and high levels of exposure to VE
activity. Many youth fall victim to cycles of violence and recruitment and/or
utilization precisely due to their conditions of vulnerability and lack of a
safe, supportive social network. Others are lured into illicit violent
activities with the hope of escaping their hostile realities at home and/or in
their communities to access what they may see as the only option for protection
and/or economic prosperity and/or to feel included and empowered.
Goal: Increase resilience
capacities of Mauritanian youth needed to resist radicalization and recruitment
by violent extremism organizations.
Objectives
- Objective 1: Increase income of
vulnerable youth
- Objective 2: Strengthen youth
agency in their lives and communities
- Objective 3: Expand safe and
supportive youth social networks
Funding Information
USAID/Senegal /SRO may
allocate up to $17,000,000 over the course of three years with a two (2) year
extension period , subject to the combined successful implementation of the
first three years and the availability of funding.
Geographic
Priority: USAID Nafoore will
prioritize interventions for the following areas: Nouakchott, Trarza, Hodh el
Chargui, Hodh el Gharbi regions using specific criteria (applicants are welcome
to use the aforementioned criteria as a basis to develop their own suggested
criteria) to determine the most vulnerable areas of the region prone to violent
extremism. The selection of these regions is indicated by the 2019 Mauritania
media assessment and recent Cross Sectoral Youth Assessment considering key
push and pull factors facing Mauritanian youth.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. and non-U.S. public,
private, for-profit, and non-profit organizations, as well as institutions
of higher education (especially minority-serving institutions), public
international organizations, and non-governmental organizations are
eligible to submit a concept note. Further, the organization must be a
legally recognized organizational entity in the country where it operates.
- USAID values the participation
of the U.S. higher education community in this activity. U.S. Higher
Education Institutions (HEIs) are key partners for developing solutions to
development challenges, by serving as intellectual hubs for knowledge,
research support, and innovation.
- USAID welcomes applicants form
organizations that have not previously received financial assistance from
USAID.
Post Date - 11-Nov-2020