The U.S. Department of State Bureau of East Asia Pacific Affairs (EAP) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for a series of small environmental awards to support local and regional small-scale environmental projects via the Regional Environmental Offices in Bangkok, at $24,999 or less per award. These awards are funded through EAP regional foreign assistance monies, and managed by the OES Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Officers posted to Bangkok for Northeast and Southeast Asia. While EAP favors projects for countries in the East Asia and Pacific region that are multilateral in nature and that demonstrate results that can be scaled-up, leveraged, or extrapolated for follow-up (or larger) efforts, we will also consider bilateral projects for countries that receive little or no foreign assistance. However, such countries must be eligible to receive U.S. foreign assistance.

Projects should seek to meet local or regional needs, involve local expertise and know-how in the design and implementation phases or the project, and should build monitoring and evaluation – including time-bound milestones for performance/results into the project. No proposal for $25,000 or over will be considered. Projects may serve to implement discrete phases of larger projects or programs (e.g. one country of a multi-country program, only the public education phase of a environmental law project, tree planting in only one region of a country-wide program, only a fish population study of a broader river quality program, etc.)

Please complete the application form (Download here: PDF 334KB) and other necessary documentation as noted in the Word document, and submit your application to REOBangkok@state.gov no later than April 15, 2016.