Global Fund to End Modern Slavery
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The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS) is pleased to announce new funding available to combat modern slavery through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP). GFEMS will distribute approximately USD 10M across eleven opportunities in-line with its overall Theory of Change.

These opportunities fall into the following categories:

Kenyan labor migrants: Strengthen formal employment pathways and eliminate trafficking avenues

Ugandan labor migrants: Strengthen formal employment pathways and eliminate trafficking avenues

Reduce commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) in Kenya through stronger justice responses, victim protection, and community engagement

Reduce CSE in Uganda through stronger anti-trafficking institutions, survivor care, and community engagement

Funding pillars / Targeted Outcome Areas

The Fund’s grantmaking will catalyze reductions in slavery prevalence in communities and sectors in three interconnected thematic areas:

Rule of Law – ending impunity and delivering justice for all forms of trafficking through effective laws and policies, criminal proceedings, and civil remedies

Business Engagement – eliminating forced labor from supply chains and investing in marketbased solutions

Sustaining Freedom – ensuring recovery, reintegration, and economic opportunity for victims and the most vulnerable populations

Framework for action / Global Fund outputs

GFEMS is designed to respond to these challenges and mobilize a coherent global strategy to eradicate modern slavery. The Fund is executing six major work streams:

Increasing resources commensurate with the scale and complexity of the challenge, and elevating global commitment to address the issue

Engaging government to facilitate ownership of anti-slavery strategies and create mechanisms for regional and global collaboration

Engaging the private sector to create market-based solutions, including targeted publicprivate partnerships that increase impact and sustainability of programs

Engaging civil society to ensure effective design and implementation of interventions to end modern slavery

Funding transformative programs and technologies within their three funding pillars (rule of law, business engagement, and sustaining freedom) to test, demonstrate, and scale highimpact approaches

Ensuring robust assessment of impact by deploying cost effective approaches to measure prevalence reduction, return on investment, and drivers of vulnerability

Funding Information

GFEMS expects to award up to USD 10M through this set of opportunities. The maximum award per opportunity is USD 2.5M; the minimum award per opportunity is USD 250K.

Eligibility Criteria

Registered non-profit organizations, multilateral organizations, academic institutions, and for-profit organizations with the caveat that for-profit organizations are not permitted to generate profit from grant-funded activities.

Organizations with existing legal authority to operate in relevant overseas locations.

Organizations that can legally receive funding that originates with the US Government without excessive tax or the use of an intermediary organization.

Proposals must align with the Fund’s Theory of Change, including focus on prevalence measurement and reduction (please review the GFEMS Funding Principles for more information).