2025 Program to End Modern Slavery Call for Statements of Interest – United States Department of State

The Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) International Programs Team announces Stage One of a two stage open competition for grant funding to support the Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS).

The TIP Office is accepting Statements of Interest for projects that aim to build the evidence base around what interventions work effectively to address trafficking in persons through funding the implementation and rigorous evaluation of high-potential and high-impact promising interventions. The TIP Office intends to consider interventions that have some evidence pointing to their effectiveness which could benefit from an evaluation to validate the intervention approach and answer important research questions about what is effective in anti-human trafficking programming.

The TIP Office will consider interventions that have either:

Local expertise will be considered critical for implementing projects under this future opportunity. PEMS also encourages the use of partnerships with governments, academia, civil society, the private sector, other funders and international organizations to advance the goals of the program and improve collaboration on the sustainable reduction of the prevalence of human trafficking and the harms associated with the crime. This opportunity is designed to be accessible to organizations small and large to provide meaningful funding and evaluation support to help them test, evaluate, and improve anti-trafficking interventions for greater impact and to provide stronger evidence on the benefits of replicating and/or scaling the intervention.

The TIP Office will invite selected applicants to submit full proposals under Stage 2 of this opportunity in the spring of 2025.

Applications for this funding opportunity must be submitted via MyGrants  by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on February 5, 2025, to be eligible for consideration. Please visit Grants.gov for full details on the programming priority, how to apply, and other important details for this funding opportunity.

For questions or concerns about this funding opportunity, please email us at JTIPGrants@state.gov. Responses to questions will be answered via email and included in the FAQ Document. The FAQ Document will be updated regularly and posted online with the opportunity package on Grants.gov and MyGrants.