Announcement issuance date: Monday, July 18, 2011Proposal submission deadline: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) EDT. Proposals submitted after this deadline will not be considered.ADVISORY: PRM strongly recommends submitting your proposal early to allow time to address difficulties that may arise due to system delays. Proposed Program Start Dates: Immediately. Duration of Activity: No more than 12 months. In funding a project one year, PRM makes no representations that it will continue to fund the project in successive years and encourages applicants to seek a wide array of donors to ensure long-term and diverse funding sources.Current Funding Priorities for refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya: (a) For Kenya, only proposals for assistance programs in response to new Somali arrivals in refugee camps will be considered. (b) For Ethiopia, only proposals for assistance programs in response to new Somali arrivals in refugee camps in the Dolo Ado region will be considered. (c) Proposals must focus on the following sectors: Health, Emergency Nutrition, Protection (including prevention of and response to gender-based violence and assistance to unaccompanied minors), Shelter and Infrastructure, and/or Water and Sanitation. (d) PRM will accept proposals only from NGOs working in the aforementioned sectors that are existing PRM partners with FY 2010 or FY 2011 funding in the refugee camps in Kenya and the Dolo Ado region in Ethiopia. (e) PRM will give priority to proposals from organizations that include activities that build on existing programs in response to the influx of new arrivals from Somalia to the above referenced camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. International Organizations (IOs) that are engaged in programs relevant to the assistance addressed by this PRM funding announcement should ensure that these programs are made known to PRM on or before the closing date of this funding announcement so that PRM can evaluate all IO and NGO programs for funding consideration.As stated in the General NGO Guidelines, PRM looks favorably on cost-sharing efforts and seeks to support projects with a diverse donor base and/or resources from the submitting organization. For more details on this specific opportunity, please click the "Full Announcement" Grants.gov link. For PRM's general NGO guidelines, please go to the Funding Opportunities page of PRM�s website: http://www.state.gov/g/prm/c27111.htm. Funding opportunity announcements and PRM's general NGO guidelines are also on PRM's website.PRM Points of Contact:Should NGOs have technical questions related to this announcement, they should contact the PRM staff listed below prior to proposal submission. (Note: Responses to technical questions from PRM do not indicate a commitment to fund the program discussed.):PRM Program Officer Cathy Baroang (
[email protected]; 202-453-9381), Washington, DCPRM Program Officer Chris Upchurch (
[email protected]; 202-453-9384), Washington, DC. Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Horn of Africa Lubna Khan (
[email protected]), U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia