Rape Prevention and Education | CDC RFA CE 24 0027

Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA CE 24 0027

The Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) grant opportunity (CDC RFA CE 24 0027) is a five-year cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through NCIPC, focused on strengthening how state and territorial health departments lead, coordinate, and measure sexual violence (SV) prevention. It continues and expands the work supported under the prior RPE funding announcement (CDC-RFA-CE19-1902) by emphasizing stronger infrastructure, clearer statewide or territory-wide planning, broader prevention implementation, and more consistent use of data to guide decisions and track progress over time.

At its core, the program is designed to help recipients move SV prevention beyond short-term or isolated activities and toward sustained, system-level approaches. Funded health departments are expected to build or reinforce the infrastructure needed for effective SV prevention, which includes the staffing, partnerships, processes, and internal capacity required to manage prevention efforts at scale. Recipients must also develop or enhance a state or territory action plan that lays out priorities, identifies needs and gaps, aligns partners around shared goals, and guides implementation across communities. A major expectation is that recipients support the implementation of community-level and societal-level prevention strategies, meaning approaches that change environments, policies, norms, and systems rather than focusing only on individual behavior change.

A defining feature of this NOFO is its explicit focus on health equity. The CDC expects recipients to select and implement SV prevention strategies that not only reduce perpetration and victimization overall, but also address disparities by reaching communities with higher burdens of SV and by targeting underlying social and structural determinants of health (SDOH). In practice, this means prevention efforts should be designed with an understanding of how factors like economic opportunity, housing stability, education, community safety, discrimination, and other systemic conditions can contribute to risk and unequal impacts, and how policy and systems changes can reduce those inequities.

Another central requirement is using data to inform action. Recipients are expected to strengthen how they gather, analyze, and apply information to understand where SV is most concentrated, which groups are most affected, what inequities exist, and whether prevention strategies are being implemented as intended. This data-driven approach is also tied to monitoring and evaluation responsibilities, so that funded programs can track outputs and outcomes, assess progress, make improvements, and build evidence of what works in their local contexts.

The NOFO describes several anticipated results that should come from completing the required activities. These include increased capacity within health departments to promote health equity and to implement and evaluate SV prevention strategies at the community and societal levels. It also aims to raise partner and community awareness of effective prevention approaches and to improve coordination among key stakeholders working to prevent SV. Over time, the expectation is that more communities will implement prevention strategies aligned with the action plan, more strategies will be tailored to high-burden communities and SDOH, and more jurisdictions will have strong monitoring and evaluation systems in place. Collectively, these improvements are intended to build the foundation for long-term reductions in SV perpetration and victimization statewide or territory-wide and to reduce disparities by addressing the inequities that drive them.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement model, which typically means CDC will have substantial involvement beyond standard grant oversight, such as collaboration on program direction, performance expectations, and evaluation. Eligibility is limited to state governments (including territorial health departments as described in the NOFO). The CFDA number is 93.136. The application deadline listed was November 30, 2023 (with electronic submissions due by 11:59 pm ET). The award ceiling is $4,200,000, and CDC anticipated making 59 awards.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Rape Prevention and Education" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.136.
• This funding opportunity was created on Sep 27, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 30, 2023 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 pm ET on the listed application due date.. (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 $4,200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 59 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments.

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