Notice of Funding Opportunity 2026 – Lebanon
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The U.S. Department of State’s Embassy Beirut, Lebanon, is seeking proposals under solicitation LBN-PDS-2026-NOFO to implement programs that advance U.S. foreign policy priorities by strengthening local understanding of American-led peace and stabilization efforts and enhancing digital literacy to identify and counter false adversarial narratives. Projects must include a direct American element—such as collaboration with U.S. experts, institutions, or organizations—to promote deeper public comprehension of U.S. policy, values, and leadership in the region. Applicants are expected to design activities that leverage artificial intelligence tools and other modern platforms to analyze and refute misinformation undermining Lebanon’s stability, while safeguarding free speech and countering censorship. The goal is to reduce public acceptance of narratives portraying the U.S. as disengaged or destabilizing, and to increase recognition of America’s role as a credible and strategic partner in promoting security and economic opportunity. Proposals must be submitted by August 7, 2026, via email to PDBeirutGrants@state.gov with the correct subject line, and the entire application package—including SF-424, SF-424A, SF-424B forms and an eight-page narrative—must not exceed ten total pages. Budgets must align with the 9- to 18-month performance period beginning no later than September 30, 2026, with total estimated funding between $123,405 and $140,373, including a provisional 13.75% indirect cost rate. Applicants must provide key personnel resumes, proof of nonprofit status, letters of support from partners, and documentation of indirect cost rates or registration. Projects must comply with 2 CFR 200, avoid prohibited activities such as drone usage, and ensure U.S. government branding and attribution in all outputs. Selection will be based on technical merit across four factors: project planning (25 points), organizational capacity (15), budget reasonableness (15), and monitoring and evaluation (15), with cost considered only as a tiebreaker. High-risk recipients may face enhanced reporting, fund withholding, and pre-award vetting of personnel against sanctions lists, and all awardees are required to submit annual property inventories using SF-248.
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Executive Summary: The U.S. Department of State’s Embassy Beirut, Lebanon announces an open competition to implement programs that promote U.S. priorities and strengthen ties between the United States and Lebanon. U.S. priorities include highlighting U.S.-led peace and stabilization efforts and advancing digital literacy to identify and counter false adversarial narratives and claims. All programs must include an American element, or connection with American expert(s), organization(s), or institution(s) that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives. Please follow all instructions below.
Project Background, Goals, and Objectives
The Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) invites proposals for programs that support the following U.S. Embassy Beirut priority program area:
· Advance digital literacy, the use of artificial intelligence tools, and other instruments and forums to identify and counter false adversarial narratives and claims.
Applicants are expected to identify their target audience, scope of work and effectively measure the results of their programs throughout the implementation period. This includes designing a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plan, detailing how the project’s performance will be tracked over time, and outlining the approach and data collection strategies to be utilized. PDS encourages project ideas that acknowledge the United States as Lebanon’s committed partner, reinforce expectations of mutual responsibility in addressing and overcoming challenges, and highlight the built-in elements that constitute the building blocks of American excellence (i.e. innovation, education, culture, and creativity).
Project Goal: Strengthen local public understanding of U.S.-led peace and stabilization efforts, and its role as a partner committed to security, economic opportunity, and responsible regional leadership.
Project Objectives: PDS welcomes project ideas that advance one of the following objectives.
Objective:
- Advance digital literacy, the use of artificial intelligence tools, and other instruments and forums to identify and counter false adversarial narratives and claims.
- Programs that advance digital literacy among local audiences and/or knowledge-based institutions to identify and counter false information.
- Programs that leverage artificial intelligence tools and platforms to identify, analyze, and counter false adversarial narratives that undermine Lebanon’s stability.
- Programs that promote the United States as a credible partner, and strategic enabler, in resolving conflict in Lebanon and reaching a peace agreement.
- Priority Outcome(s): Applicants may focus on one or more of the outcomes listed below. Applicants are encouraged to propose additional objectives and innovative activities that address the priority program areas.
- Increased capabilities and skills among identified target audiences to recognize and counter false narratives while protecting free speech and countering censorship.
- Reduced acceptance of false narratives that portray U.S.-mediated engagements as arbitrary, destabilizing, or disengaged.
- Increased local recognition of the United States’ leadership and positive role in stabilizing Lebanon.
- Increased accurate descriptions of U.S. strategic priorities and policy objectives by Lebanese knowledge-based institutions and stakeholders.