Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants Solicitation, Fiscal Year 2020
Solicitation Title: Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants Solicitation, Fiscal Year 2020
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Solicitation Link: https://nij.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh171/files/media/document/NIJ-2020-17329.pdf
Solicitation Number: CFDA No. 16.560 - NIJ-2020-17329
Overview
<p>Through this solicitation, NIJ will provide small planning grants to fund applications to develop new and innovative criminal and juvenile justice research projects involving federally recognized tribes (or tribally based organizations) and that represent a new tribal-researcher investigator partnership.1 For the purposes of this solicitation, a new partnership is defined as a newly developed partnership where a partnership did not previously exist. Applications that do not involve a new tribal-researcher investigative partnership will not be considered (i.e., a pre-existing partnership or project continuation does not fit the criteria of this solicitation). Under this solicitation, grant funding may be awarded to cover costs associated with: <br>• Engaging and conferring with tribal nations on criminal and juvenile justice research, development, testing (e.g., technology), and evaluation aimed to improve public safety in tribal communities;<br>• Establishing new tribal nation and tribal program partnerships and participation (e.g., technical and factual presentations to tribal leadership or governing bodies, including those requested by a tribe in connection with its process for providing its authorization [through tribal resolution or other appropriate documentation] to participate in the funded project; obtaining participatory agreements; and securing tribal Institutional Review Board [IRB] approvals);<br>• Developing research questions and study designs using community-based participatory research principles that involve the tribal partner in all aspects of the research process;<br>• Conducting pilot, feasibility, or evaluability assessment studies that may involve collecting preliminary data and/or secondary data analysis, and<br>• Drafting a tribal-researcher investigator criminal or juvenile justice proposal for submission, based on the new partnership.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>NIJ will consider applications under which two-or-more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (subgrantees). The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering the funding and managing the entire project.</p> Other Information:<p>While the scope of this solicitation is defined as investigator-initiated, the following research topics are of particular interest to the U.S. Department of Justice:<br>• The impact of concurrent criminal jurisdiction on the administration of justice in Indian country and Alaska Native villages.<br>• The effectiveness of the criminal justice response to combating the opioid crisis, and more broadly, the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs (e.g., methamphetamine, heroin, and other opioids including fentanyl, diverted pharmaceuticals, synthetic drugs, and analogues).<br>• Combating violent crime and responding to and reducing victimization. • Enhancing investigations and prosecutions.<br>• Provision, role, and impact of forensic science services (including medicolegal death investigation), particularly as it relates to combating the opioid crisis and violent crime.<br>• Strengthening tribal justice systems (e.g., evaluating tribal healing to wellness courts, tribal-state collaborations, wellness court collaborations, technology-based court systems that improve court operations and outcomes, tribal-reentry programs).<br>• Developing and testing tools and technologies to improve criminal justice policy and practice (e.g., unmanned aircraft systems, body-worn cameras, drug-detecting technology, location-based technology, digital devices or applications, victim technology-based services).</p>Last Updated:
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