Federal grant programs / Department of State

Global Peace Operations Initiative (19.026)

Also known as GPOI

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$20.4 million
• Grant awards13
• Typical award$796,422
• Awarded in FY 2025-$569,604
• Size rank1309 of 1824
• Type of assistanceProject grants, project grants (capacity building and complaint processing, training), project grants (cooperative agreements or contracts), project grants (discretionary), project grants (for collaborative design of curriculum, production of, project grants (special)

Key findings

• It is the 1309th largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 7 largest recipients received 100% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 3 states and territories.

What the program funds

The GPOI program enhances international capacity to effectively conduct UN and regional peace operations. International peace operations are strategically important to U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives. They represent a cost-effective tool for managing conflict, supporting stabilization in some of the world’s most volatile regions, and facilitating peacebuilding efforts, enabling the international community to share the burden of maintaining peace and security. The GPOI program is the primary mechanism through which the United States contributes to strengthening global capacity to conduct peace operations. The program’s partnerships emphasize institutional capacity-building relationships and seek to strengthen partner countries’ capabilities to self-sufficiently train, deploy, employ, and sustain peacekeeping forces. GPOI activities train and mentor partners to develop critical enabling and rapid deployment capabilities that are greatly needed and consistently requested to fill critical gaps in peace operations; increase the operational capacity of the UN and regional organizations to field more effective peace operations; and seek to develop and reinforce peacekeepers’ capabilities and commitment to protect civilians and promote the role of women in peace operations.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

No additional information to include.

What the money can and cannot pay for

No Functional Application/Unlimited Application Funds may be used as approved by State PM/PPA/GPOI in accordance with with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (FAA). Actitivies that may be funded include, but are by no means limitied to, peackeeping capacity building as it relates to training, courses, course materials, staffing, program management, deployment support, construction and refurbishment of peackeeping centers, equipment requirements, studies, workshops, conferences, and regional exercises. Funds must be used in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (FAA). Funds must be used in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (FAA), and the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (Div. B, P.L. 112-10) (CR). ;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Deadlines do not apply

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

Nonprofits received 5.7% of the money.

By state

1 state has a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards. It is New York.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.