Closed · SFOP0008552 · CFDA 19.345 · Discretionary

DRL FY2021 Research and Evaluation Innovation Fund: Global Trends in Democratic Erosion and Autocracy

Federal grant opportunity posted by Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$650K-$975K
Award range
Closed
Status
March 25, 2022
Close date
-
Expected awards

The verdict

DRL FY2021 Research and Evaluation Innovation Fund: Global Trends in Democratic Erosion and Autocracy is a closed discretionary listing from Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor that offered $650,000 -- $975,000. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 686 other opportunities from Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor.

$650K-$975K
award range
Closed
application status
19.345
CFDA program
686
other opportunities from Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor

Archived opportunity record

DRL FY2021 Research and Evaluation Innovation… is closed (last close March 25, 2022). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor still indexes 686 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed March 25, 2022

Posted Jan 24 Closes Mar 25

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces an open-source competition for organizations interested in submitting proposals for a research project that supports the following goal: Contribute to building a portfolio of evidence to further identify democracy and rights program strategies that are effective. Projects should support the following objective: Cultivate the use of sound evidence and generate findings and recommendations to counter global trends in democratic erosion and autocracy. DRL is interested in partnering with a consortium that can provide research support to further aid students, scholars, funders, and practitioners in understanding global trends in democracy, as well as identifying effective program and policy recommendations to counter democratic erosion and autocracy. This project supports questions in the Department of State-wide and DRL-specific learning agendas, specifically related to understanding how the Department can improve the effectiveness and sustainability of its foreign assistance efforts.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · SFOP0008552

Grants.gov marks DRL FY2021 Research and Evaluation Innovation… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Other (O). This eligibility-code string dominates the Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor book (373 peers, 54% of 687).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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Agency Contact

DRL-GP-ME@state.gov

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