Opportunity Information: Apply for SFOP0009080
The grant opportunity titled "Enhancing the Impact of Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace" is a U.S. Department of State funding call issued through the Office of Global Criminal Justice (J/GCJ). It is designed to support accountability and transitional justice efforts in Colombia, with a specific focus on strengthening the work and overall impact of Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (often referred to as the JEP), the judicial mechanism created to address serious crimes connected to the country's armed conflict. The core idea behind the opportunity is to help ensure that large-scale human rights abuses and international crimes are investigated and addressed in a credible, rigorous way, while also improving how justice processes engage and serve victims across the country.
J/GCJ frames this opportunity within its broader mandate: preventing atrocities, reducing the harm atrocities cause, and ending impunity by promoting justice and accountability. The office emphasizes serious international crimes that can occur during armed conflict as well as in peacetime, and it explicitly highlights violations such as killings, sexual violence, arbitrary detention, torture, and enforced disappearances or missing persons. In practice, this means the project is expected to reinforce the technical and practical capacity of justice actors and other relevant stakeholders to handle complex cases involving patterns of abuse, multiple victims, and organized systems of criminality rather than isolated incidents.
The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, which generally signals a closer working relationship with the U.S. government than a standard grant. Under a cooperative agreement, the funder typically expects ongoing coordination, shared planning, or substantial involvement during implementation, such as collaboration on activity design, monitoring, and strategic direction. The opportunity anticipates making a single award, with an award ceiling of up to $1,000,000, meaning the chosen applicant could receive as much as one million dollars depending on the proposed scope and the final negotiated budget.
Geographically, the work is intended to take place in or for Colombia. The description points to the real-world challenges transitional justice institutions face when confronting mass atrocity crimes: documenting and proving large-scale system crimes, processing extensive bodies of evidence, ensuring victim participation that is meaningful and representative, and aligning justice activities with broader transitional justice goals. In other words, the project is not simply about adding resources; it is about providing specialized support that helps a domestic transitional justice process function better at scale, reach more people affected by conflict, and contribute to a more comprehensive national strategy for truth, accountability, reparations, and non-repetition.
The opportunity also underscores the importance of maintaining high investigative standards, not only for prosecutors and judicial actors, but also for civil society participants who may help document abuses, support victims, analyze patterns, or contribute expertise relevant to complex international crimes. This suggests the grant could support advanced technical assistance, capacity building, methodologies for investigations, approaches for handling sensitive crimes like sexual violence, strategies for addressing missing persons cases, and tools for managing large volumes of information while protecting victims and witnesses. Although the notice does not list specific deliverables in the excerpt provided, the emphasis on system crimes and broad victim engagement implies that applicants would need to demonstrate an understanding of how to operate in a transitional justice environment where legitimacy, victim-centered practices, and due process all matter.
Administratively, the funding opportunity number is SFOP0009080, and it falls under CFDA 19.990. The opportunity category is listed as discretionary, and the funding activity category is identified as "Other," with additional clarification referenced in the full posting. Eligibility is broadly listed as "Others," indicating that the full announcement likely provides more detailed guidance on which types of organizations can apply, such as non-profits, NGOs, academic institutions, international organizations, or other entities with relevant expertise in atrocity crimes accountability and transitional justice. The opportunity was created on June 23, 2022, with an original closing date of July 25, 2022, meaning it was time-bound and competitive, with the expectation of selecting one implementer.
Overall, this grant is aimed at strengthening Colombia's capacity to deliver credible accountability for grave crimes, improving how transitional justice institutions manage complex, widespread criminal patterns, and expanding meaningful access for a wide range of victims. The intended impact is both practical and strategic: better investigations and casework, stronger participation and inclusion of victims, and a more coherent transitional justice approach that contributes to human dignity, stability, and long-term prevention of future abuses.Apply for SFOP0009080
- The Department of State, Office of Global Criminal Justice in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Enhancing the Impact of Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.990.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 23, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 25, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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