Opportunity Information: Apply for STI0020GR0024
The U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe is offering a discretionary grant opportunity called "Improving Fiscal Transparency and the EITI Standard in Tajikistan" (Funding Opportunity Number STI0020GR0024). The project is designed to help the Government of Tajikistan strengthen and make more consistent its reporting on beneficial ownership, which is a core transparency expectation under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), specifically Requirement 2.5 of the EITI Standard. In practical terms, the grant focuses on building a reliable, repeatable government process for identifying and reporting the real, ultimately controlling individuals behind companies involved in the extractive sector, rather than only listing legal entities or front-facing shareholders.
The purpose is tied directly to Tajikistan's efforts to sustain its EITI membership and to improve fiscal transparency around natural resources. The Embassy frames beneficial ownership reporting as a public-interest tool: the final reporting should be understandable and useful to ordinary citizens, helping them see who profits from the country's natural resources and clarifying where and how revenues from those resources are collected. The broader transparency goal is to reduce opacity in the sector, support accountable revenue management, and align Tajikistan's practices with EITI requirements and international expectations for extractives governance.
Implementation is expected to be carried out by a non-governmental organization working in coordination with the Ministry of Finance's EITI Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG). The MSG model is central to EITI and typically includes government, industry, and civil society representatives, so the NGO is not expected to work in isolation. Instead, the project is structured around supporting and systematizing official reporting processes, which may involve improving data collection routines, developing reporting templates and guidance, coordinating stakeholder inputs, and ensuring the output meets EITI beneficial ownership expectations in a way that can be repeated in future reporting cycles.
Administratively, this is a Department of State award managed by the U.S. Mission to Tajikistan, using a grant funding instrument and listed under the Business and Commerce activity category (CFDA 19.662). The opportunity anticipated a single award with a maximum funding ceiling of $200,000. The NOFO was posted on April 10, 2020, with an original application deadline of May 29, 2020. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with additional eligibility details referenced in the full announcement. Further official information and application guidance were provided through the Embassy website at https://tj.usembassy.gov/nofo-sti0020gr0024-eiti/.Apply for STI0020GR0024
- The Department of State, U.S. Mission to Tajikistan in the business and commerce sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Improving Fiscal Transparency and the EITI Standard in Tajikistan" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.662.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 10, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 29, 2020. (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 $200,000.00 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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