The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will provide up to $500,000 to Tribes and Tribal organizations to further animal disease prevention, preparedness, and response through the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program (NADPRP). Projects selected for funding will be awarded in summer 2025.
APHIS invites Native American Tribes and governments, Tribal organizations, and Tribal colleges and universities to submit proposals for the FY 2025 NADPRP Tribal funding opportunity. Through NADPRP, APHIS supports projects focused on advancing animal disease preparedness and response capabilities in the following priority topic areas, developed through stakeholder consultation.
- Develop, enhance, and exercise State and Tribal animal disease outbreak emergency response plans
- Support livestock and poultry biosecurity measures and programs
- Enhance capability and capacity for depopulation, carcass disposal, and decontamination in a disease outbreak
- Support animal movement decisions in a disease outbreak
- Enhance animal disease traceability during a disease outbreak
- Develop and deliver training and exercises to improve animal disease outbreak response capabilities
- Support outreach and education on animal disease prevention, preparedness, and response
The NADPRP Tribal funding opportunity opens today, October 23, and closes January 24, 2025. Parties interested in submitting proposals should visit the APHIS Funding Opportunities or APHIS NADPRP websites for resources and guidance, including the funding opportunity announcement, application instructions, frequently asked questions, templates, help session webinar information, and more. Applicants can also find information on the ezFedGrants website or the Grants.gov website by searching CFDA number 10.025 or Funding Opportunity Number USDA-APHIS-10025-VSSP0000-25-0002.
APHIS is offering webinars to help interested applicants apply for NADPRP funding. The two webinars will take place on:
Wednesday, November 6 at 01:00PM EDT
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Wednesday, December 4 at 01:00PM EDT
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This is the third year a NADPRP Tribal funding opportunity is available, as APHIS seeks to continue to advance animal disease preparedness and response through its Farm Bill animal health programs. In FY 2023 – FY 2024, APHIS awarded $915,000 in NADPRP Farm Bill funds to support seven animal disease prevention and preparedness projects led by Tribes and Tribal partners and provided an additional $810,000 in NADPRP funding to support two projects led by Land Grant Universities that include Tribal partner engagement. Additionally, in summer 2025 USDA expects to announce awards from the NADPRP FY2025 general funding opportunity, which included up to $16.5 million in NADPRP funds.
Find out more about the NADPRP program and this funding opportunity at: Funding Opportunity: National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program (usda.gov)
[Source: USDA APHIS 23 October 2024]