Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-520-14-000006
Opportunity Category: Mandatory
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)
Eligible Applicants: Unrestricted (i.  e.  , open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Agency Name: USAID-GUA
Closing Date: 2014-07-08
Award Ceiling: $40,000,000
Expected Number of Awards: 1

Description: The overall goal of the Community Strengthening Project is to support efforts by Government of
Guatemala (GOG), civil society and community actors to address the causes and consequences
of violence through holistic prevention approaches.  The intent is to contribute to GOG and USG objectives of decreasing violent crime rates in targeted areas.
This Community Strengthening Project will be USAID/Guatemala?s violence prevention project
and has four complementary and mutually reinforcing objectives.  These are to:
1.  Support community commissions to institutionalize proven, integrated violence
prevention projects in targeted areas;
2.  Strengthen and mobilize municipal and national stakeholders and resources to develop
and implement municipal-level prevention plans;
3.  Support secondary prevention projects in close coordination with municipal authorities;
and
4.  Promote and integrate evidence-based policy making among prevention actors.
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