Enabling Community-Oriented Policing in Senegal | INL22CA0005 AMESEN COMPOLICE 10202021

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The grant opportunity titled "Enabling Community-Oriented Policing in Senegal" is a U.S. Department of State initiative run through the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). It was released as an open competition for organizations to design and implement a program that helps Senegalese law enforcement adopt community policing in a way that strengthens the relationship between citizens and the state. The central goal is to improve the "social contract" by making policing more citizen-focused, which INL frames as a practical route to better governance, stronger legitimacy of public institutions, and more meaningful cooperation between communities and the police.

At its core, the opportunity recognizes that shifting toward community-oriented policing is not simply a matter of rewriting policies or delivering a few training sessions. The description emphasizes that real change requires building trust and repairing strained relationships that may be shaped by years of underperformance, limited service delivery, and memories of abuse or unfair treatment. It also highlights an important point that many reform efforts struggle with: police culture can be harder to change than formal rules. The program is therefore designed around the idea that legitimacy grows when officers consistently engage with residents in transparent, equitable, and effective ways, and when the public sees policing as a service rather than a force acting on them from the outside.

The program is focused specifically on Senegal and is meant to support three key law enforcement bodies: the national police, the gendarmerie, and a local force known as the Agence de Securite de Proximite (ASP). While Senegal is the only country targeted, INL allows the implementer to use regional collaboration if it helps achieve results, such as learning exchanges, peer networking, or bringing in regional expertise that fits Senegal's context.

INL lays out three main areas of work that applicants are expected to address as "enabling changes" that make community policing stick over time. First, the project should support the integration of community-oriented policing principles into both initial training for new personnel and in-service training for active officers, so the approach becomes part of professional development rather than a one-off initiative. Second, the project should strengthen the human resource, leadership, and management capabilities needed to sustain community policing inside institutions. This signals that INL is looking beyond frontline interactions and wants reforms that reach supervision, deployment practices, performance management, and leadership behaviors that shape how officers operate day to day. Third, the project should help ensure that public communication systems can proactively communicate positive changes and respond effectively when incidents occur, reinforcing transparency and helping institutions manage crises and public perception in a credible way.

Taken together, these three pillars are intended to motivate both law enforcement personnel and communities to participate in a more collaborative model of public safety. INL explicitly links the anticipated results to increased transparency, accountability, dialogue, and performance improvements, with the broader outcome of reducing instability driven by distrust and weak government service delivery. In other words, the program is positioned not only as a policing reform effort but also as a governance and stability intervention that treats police-community trust as a foundational element of state legitimacy.

From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity was listed as a discretionary award using a cooperative agreement, which typically means the U.S. government expects substantial involvement in program direction or oversight during implementation. The opportunity number is INL22CA0005 AMESEN COMPOLICE 10202021, and it falls under the Law, Justice and Legal Services activity category (CFDA/Assistance Listing 19.703). The funding details indicate an award ceiling of $1,000,000, with one expected award. The posting date was October 28, 2021, and the original closing date for applications was November 26, 2021. Eligibility is broadly labeled as "Others," with additional eligibility details referenced in the full notice.

• The Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics-Law Enforcement in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Enabling Community-Oriented Policing in Senegal" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.703.
• This funding opportunity was created on Oct 28, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 26, 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 $1,000,000.00 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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