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Countering Weaponized Migration to Central and Eastern Europe

Federal funding opportunity DFOP0019651 from Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor (Department of State).

Apply on Grants.gov →Application closes August 28, 2026

Posted
August 14, 2026
Closes
August 28, 2026
Award ceiling
$1,973,359
Award floor
$1,973,359
Expected awards
1
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
19.345
Category
Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 19.345 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated
$332.7M
FY2025 obligated
$314.7M
FY2026 (to date) obligated
$313.9M
Awards in window
32

Top recipients: National Endowment for Democracy, Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Staly Sekretariat Wspolnoty Demokracji, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed August 2026

Synopsis

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) seeks to support analysis that increases understanding of how malign foreign governments and their proxies weaponize migration to serve their geopolitical ends. Similar to East Germany’s Soviet-backed trafficking of migrants from developing countries into West Germany to stoke social tensions in the 1980s, nefarious state and state-backed criminal actors, seek to lure migrants from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia to Central and Eastern European democracies to weaken and destabilize them. In addition, such nefarious actors exploit or exacerbate conflicts in other regions and channel conflict-affected populations toward Europe. Thus, DRL announces an open competition for proposals for programs to analyze and develop approaches to expose and counter such weaponized migration.

Who can apply

The following U.S-based and international organizations are eligible to apply: - Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations - Public and private educational institutions - For-profit organizations - Individuals - Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions

How to apply

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Agency contact: Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor · 202-890-9795

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