Opportunity Information: Apply for SMK80019PAS004
The Municipal-Level Tabletop Exercise grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number SMK80019PAS004) is a discretionary U.S. Department of State award administered by the U.S. Mission to North Macedonia. It funds one project (Expected Awards: 1) with a maximum budget of $75,000. The opportunity was released on May 15, 2019, with an original closing date of June 28, 2019. The funded project is intended to support North Macedonia's local and national efforts to counter violent extremism (CVE) and counter terrorism (CT), with a strong focus on practical municipal-level coordination and preparedness.
At its core, the grant supports the development and delivery of a series of tabletop exercises built around fictional case studies of radicalization. The selected organization would design scenarios and then run these exercises in 3 to 6 municipalities across North Macedonia. The idea is to bring together municipal stakeholders and walk them through realistic, structured situations involving early warning signs, recruitment dynamics, and escalation pathways that can lead to violent extremism. These exercises are meant to be hands-on planning and coordination sessions rather than academic workshops, helping local actors test decision-making, clarify roles, and identify what they would actually do when faced with a potential radicalization case in their community.
A key expectation is close cooperation with major partners, including the U.S. Embassy in Skopje and North Macedonia's National Committee for Countering Violent Extremism and Countering Terrorism, along with other relevant stakeholder organizations. The program is designed not only to improve municipal responses to extremist recruitment, but also to help municipalities address challenges connected to returning foreign fighters, including community vulnerabilities, prevention, and rehabilitation. In practice, the exercises should strengthen relationships across sectors that often need to work together in these situations, such as local government, schools, social services, community leaders, law enforcement, mental health professionals, and civil society organizations, depending on the municipality and scenario.
The program priorities lay out what applicants are expected to deliver. First, the awardee should develop exercise scenarios and choose the municipal sites in close coordination with partner organizations, ensuring the scenarios fit local realities while supporting national CVE/CT goals. Second, the awardee is responsible for end-to-end logistics for implementing the full series of exercises, which typically includes planning sessions, venues, materials, facilitation, participant coordination, and any related costs. Third, the program should clearly build the capacity of municipal stakeholders to recognize and respond to extremist recruitment and pathways to radicalization, meaning participants should leave with improved practical skills, clearer coordination habits, and a stronger understanding of intervention options. Fourth, the program should help local and national stakeholders identify concrete local needs, such as gaps in services, coordination breakdowns, training needs, or missing referral pathways, so that future CVE efforts are better targeted.
The application requirements emphasize that proposals need to be structured around measurable results and clear accountability. Applicants should explain how their approach directly supports the listed priorities and should spell out specific outputs and outcomes expected by the end of the grant period. Outputs might include the number of tabletop exercises conducted, the number and types of participants trained, scenario packages developed, or after-action reports produced. Outcomes would focus more on what changes because of the project, such as improved interagency coordination, increased municipal readiness to intervene early, new or strengthened local networks, or clearer linkages between municipal leaders and national CVE/CT frameworks.
Proposals also need to describe any American content or involvement. In this context, that could mean U.S.-supported expertise, U.S. best practices in community-based prevention, participation of American specialists, or use of U.S.-developed methodologies, as long as it is relevant and appropriately adapted to the North Macedonian setting. Applicants must clearly specify the intended audiences and the geographic locations where activities will take place, explain why those municipalities were chosen, and describe how participation will be achieved. In addition, proposals must include a plan for monitoring and evaluation, explaining how the project will track performance, capture lessons learned, and assess whether the exercises improve coordination and preparedness.
Finally, the Embassy is looking for projects that do not end when the grant ends. Applications should explain how the work will have a multiplier effect or remain sustainable, such as by creating reusable tabletop materials, developing local facilitators who can run future exercises, institutionalizing municipal coordination mechanisms, or embedding lessons learned into local action plans. Applicants must also demonstrate they can manage the full financial and compliance responsibilities of a U.S. government grant, including participant costs and any sub-grants to partners, with transparent oversight and clear financial controls.Apply for SMK80019PAS004
- The Department of State, U.S. Mission to North Macedonia in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Municipal-Level Tabletop Exercise" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.900.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 15, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 28, 2019. (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 $75,000.00 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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