Combatting Corruption and Strengthening Integrity in Jamaica Activity

Funding Opportunity Number: SOL-RFA-532-16-000001 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)CFDA Number: 98.001Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: USAID-JAMClosing Date: Feb 05, 2016Award Ceiling: $12,000,000Expected Number of Awards: Creation Date: Jan 07, 2016Funding Opportunity Description: The new anti-corruption activity will capitalize on existing USAID/Jamaica and Government of Jamaica (GOJ) endeavors and create new opportunities for promoting community-based partnerships in building pubic demand that will combat corruption and strengthen integrity; raise the advocacy skills and overall capacity of investigative, prosecutorial and enforcement professionals; and to ensure that key anti-corruption legislations are neither stalled, gutted nor shelved. The new anti-corruption activity will also be innovative as it aims to: engage youth in a more robust manner including use of media which is more class and youth sensitive; build the capacity of the GOJ Judiciary and other systems to assume technical training responsibility; strengthen media on their reporting of the issues; build a cadre of other anti-corruption advocates; and focus on key additional political codes of conduct. ...
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