Opportunity Information: Apply for DOS PTA 202102
The 2021 South Africa Mandela Washington Fellow Program Logistics opportunity is a U.S. Department of State, U.S. Mission to South Africa Public Affairs Section (PAS) funding call for a single organization to coordinate and deliver on-the-ground logistics for South Africa-based participants in the Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF). MWF is the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), launched in 2014, and it brings emerging leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa to U.S. colleges and universities for academic coursework, leadership training, and networking, followed by professional development support after they return home. For this specific award, the focus is not on delivering training content, but on managing practical travel and event arrangements that allow selected fellows to participate smoothly.
The award will be issued as a cooperative agreement, meaning the selected grantee is expected to work closely and collaboratively with U.S. government counterparts rather than operating fully independently. In this case, the grantee will coordinate with Public Affairs Sections located in Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, and Johannesburg. The project centers on approximately 46 South African fellows and covers several phases of their participation: a pre-departure orientation inside South Africa, domestic travel connected to departing for the United States, and domestic travel connected to returning to South Africa after the program concludes.
A major required deliverable is organizing a three-day pre-departure orientation (PDO) in Gauteng. The grantee is responsible for selecting and paying for an appropriate venue and managing associated participant support costs. This includes arranging overnight accommodation and meals for fellows during the orientation, providing small gift bags, and ensuring all related logistical details are handled. The scope also explicitly includes transportation to and from the U.S. Consulate in Johannesburg for visa interviews, which is often a critical scheduling and transport coordination task for a cohort coming from multiple cities.
Beyond the orientation itself, the grantee must manage domestic travel logistics for fellows as they depart for the United States. This includes costs and arrangements for travel from each fellow's home city to the departure city, as well as hotel and meal costs in the departure city when an overnight stay is necessary due to flight schedules. Importantly, the program does not ask applicants to budget for international airfare to the United States. International round-trip flights are arranged by U.S. cooperating agencies, so proposals should focus on the in-country components that support the fellows before they board international flights.
The grant also covers domestic logistics for the fellows return to South Africa after completing the U.S. program. Similar to departure, the grantee must plan and fund the transportation from the fellows arrival/departure hub city back to their home cities and include hotel and meals if an overnight stop is required. In addition, the opportunity specifies a travel allowance of $200 per fellow to be issued prior to international travel, which means applicants should account for both the budgeting and the administrative process for distributing these allowances in a controlled and well-documented way.
From a funding and administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary opportunity under CFDA 19.022, with an award ceiling of $30,000 and an expectation of one award. The funding opportunity number is DOS PTA 202102. The notice was created on December 7, 2020, and the original closing date was February 15, 2021. Applications are submitted by email to PretoriaGrants@state.gov, and applicants are instructed to review the full notice before applying, which typically contains formatting requirements, required proposal components, budget instructions, and any compliance or reporting expectations.
Overall, the grant is essentially a cohort logistics management project: it funds an organization that can reliably coordinate venues, accommodations, meals, ground transportation, and stipend-like travel allowances for a nationally distributed group of fellows, while maintaining close coordination with multiple U.S. Embassy/Consulate public affairs offices. The success measure is operational: fellows are supported, events run smoothly, visa interview transport is arranged, and domestic travel to and from the international departure point is managed efficiently, all within the established budget and the cooperative agreement structure.Apply for DOS PTA 202102
- The Department of State, U.S. Mission to South Africa in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "2021 South Africa Mandela Washington Fellow Program Logistics" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.022.
- This funding opportunity was created on Dec 07, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 15, 2021. (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 $30,000.00 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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