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<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 1.062em; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);">The International Affairs MENTOR-Bat global conservation fellowship program focuses on the linkages between the health of bats, people, and the environment. Bats have co-evolved with various viral pathogens and become reservoir hosts to many pathogens without suffering from the effects of the disease. Disturbances to forest and cave habitats and bat roosts disrupt this delicate host-pathogen balance. As a result, bats shed the virus, potentially infecting other animals. Such disturbances may also change the bat hosts’ ranging patterns, increasing the level of contact with humans. Broadly, the greater the human disturbance of bats and their habitat, the greater the risk of zoonotic disease spillover to humans.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 1.062em; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);">The MENTOR-Bat program aims to promote healthy environments where bats and humans coexist with reduced risk of disease transmission.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 1.062em; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);">We co-design the MENTOR programs with the lead recipient organization and establish transdisciplinary teams of early-career conservation leaders who collaborate on addressing threats to wildlife. Through rigorous academic and field-based training, long-term mentoring, experiential learning, and project design and implementation, MENTOR-Bat aims to develop a team of 12 international MENTOR-Bat Fellows with representation from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.</div>
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<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 1.062em; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The proposed MENTOR-Bat program should address the relationships between bats, people, and environmental health that impact the potential for spillover and pandemic interventions, such as: </span></div>
<ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The influence of habitat disturbance on the stress and health of bats and the impact this may have on increasing potential zoonotic disease spillover. </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The relationship between the health status of bats and the degree to which they shed viruses and thus pose a zoonotic disease risk. </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The role that the consumption and trade of bats plays in the risk of zoonotic disease transmission through direct human contact. </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The importance of public attitudes and messaging towards bats in influencing bat persecution, human-bat contact, and opportunities for zoonotic disease transmission. </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The impact of education and outreach regarding safer practices and coexistence initiatives on the nature of human-bat interactions and zoonotic disease transmission risk.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How understanding of ecosystem services and economic value provided by bats influences habitat management policy and contributes to public perception of bats. </span></li></ol>
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<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 1.062em; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The anticipated funding available is <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">$1,000,000 USD</strong>. </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This funding opportunity will solicit a <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">single award</strong> with an expected <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">period of performance of two to three years</strong> and a range of $300,000 to $500,000 USD/per year.</span></span> </span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 1.062em; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);">Priority will be given to projects that are based on sound, realistic, and evidence-based designs. Applicants<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> should express an openness to work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to further co-design MENTOR-Bat and apply lessons learned from the MENTOR Model.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 1.062em; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Applicants can be individuals; multi-national secretariats; foreign national and local government agencies; non-profit non-governmental organizations; for-profit organizations; public and private institutions of higher education; and U.S. territorial governments. </span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 1.062em; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);">See the NOFO for full details on the application requirements and process for applying. The NOFO should be read carefully to ensure an application meets all eligibility requirements and is complete upon submission.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.062em; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);">Electronically submitted applications may be submitted after July 25, 2022 until 11:59 PM EDT, September 9, 2022 preferably through <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Fhome.grantsolutions.gov*2Fhome*2F*3Futm_medium*3Demail*26utm_source*3Dgovdelivery&data=04*7C01*7Chunter_doughty*40fws.gov*7Cd90e71f9b14a4f78bdc308d9f7c2e4f5*7C0693b5ba4b184d7b9341f32f400a5494*7C0*7C0*7C637813238700745913*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000&sdata=3UhIYvx3MmrOepuLO*2BEB*2Fz*2B1RQChl*2Blxp2bg8BylQ8Y*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!KGKeukY!yjECIgO7XgIDlllf2vMfPmp1BJuZBe08kgolfa7YffxXZ_FdlJId486UejYwwzlzUra3Je6ZnHtfI_uG$" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-size: 1.062em; line-height: 1.29;">GrantSolutions.gov</a> (search for funding opportunity #F22AS00398), or alternatively through <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=mentor-bat__;!!KGKeukY!yjECIgO7XgIDlllf2vMfPmp1BJuZBe08kgolfa7YffxXZ_FdlJId486UejYwwzlzUra3Je6ZnA8bh8c8$" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-size: 1.062em; line-height: 1.29;">Grants.gov</a>. Applicants who are unable to submit applications through those channels may seek a waiver.</div>
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