Department of State Issues Request for applications for humanitarian mine action grants.[The following are excerpts of a media note from Washington, D.C., April 9, 2004.] The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement A reduction, a decrease, or a diminution. The suspension or cessation, in whole or in part, of a continuing charge, such as rent. With respect to estates, an abatement is a proportional diminution or reduction of the monetary legacies, a disposition of property by will, when in the Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs The Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is an agency within the United States Department of State that bridges the Department of State with the Department of Defense. It provides policy in the areas of international security, security assistance, military operations, defense is issuing its first ever, open Request for Applications for grants to advance humanitarian mine action. Grant applications will be accepted from domestic and foreign non-governmental organizations “NGO” redirects here. For other uses, see NGO (disambiguation). A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a legally constituted organization created by private persons or organizations with no participation or representation of any government. , academic institutions, and international organizations in six specified areas. The Department of State is prepared to provide up to $4.2 million dollars in funding support for this process. The six categories being considered for grant applications in 2004 are: * Community-based mine risk education in Sudan Education systems The public and private education systems inherited by the government of Sudan after independence were designed to provide civil servants and professionals to serve the colonial administration, rather than to educate the Sudanese. ; * Strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. training course and curriculum development for national mine action plans; * Development of abandoned ordnance and hazardous ordnance site survey methodology; * Development of training methodology and curriculum to fully enable host-nation program management capabilities to achieve a mine-safe end state; * Review of Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement-sponsored indigenous humanitarian mine action capacity-building efforts; and * Private sector engagement to raise public awareness of and support for humanitarian mine action and destruction of abandoned ordnance. Grant applications for unsolicited un·so·lic·it·ed adj. Not looked for or requested; unsought: an unsolicited manuscript; unsolicited opinions. unsolicited Adjective projects may also be submitted. Depending on the quality of the proposals and changes in programming assumptions, the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement reserves the right to make no awards. Information on the application review, grant award process, how to develop and submit a grant application, suggested grant formats, and related mandatory application forms can be found at www.state.gov/t/pm/wra/c11811.htm on the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement's website. To learn about the U.S. Department of State's humanitarian mine action programs and small arms small arms, firearms designed primarily to be carried and fired by one person and, generally, held in the hands, as distinguished from heavy arms, or artillery. Early Small Arms The first small arms came into general use at the end of the 14th cent. and light weapons abatement efforts around the world, visit www.state.gov/t/pm/wra. |
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