Assistance program
Conflict and Stabilization Operations
$21.4 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, State, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 19.121
- What it does
- The Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) is part of the Under Secretariat for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights (J) within the Department of State (DOS). CSO's mission is to strengthen U.S. national security by breaking cycles of violent conflict and mitigating crisis in priority countries. Guided by local dynamics, CSO acts quickly to devise sustainable solutions to address the full spectrum of conflict, from prevention to crisis response to stabilization. Building more effective partnerships with capable implementing organizations with experience in conflict prevention and stabilization activities is integral to the CSO mission and as such, CSO seeks to identify qualified partners, facilitators and implementers from among private and nonprofit entities. Funding may be made available for flexible, rapid, targeted, and high-impact awards to organizations to prevent, mitigate and/or respond to conflict situations and stabilize countries around the world.
- Who benefits
- CSO recommends applicants view the open application on www.grants.gov for more information.
- Who applies
- CSO recommends applicants view the open application on www.grants.gov for more information.
- Authorized by
- Foreign Assistance Act
- State Department Basic Authorities Act
- Program site
- http://www.state.gov/j/cso/index.htm ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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- Awards, counted once
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Direct payments