Climate Program Office FY24 NIDIS Tribal Drought Resilience with Inflation Reduction Act Support | NOAA OAR CPO 2024 2008188

Opportunity Information: Apply for NOAA OAR CPO 2024 2008188

The Climate Program Office FY24 NIDIS Tribal Drought Resilience opportunity is a NOAA-funded grant program supported by Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) appropriations. It is designed to help Tribal nations across the Western United States better prepare for and respond to both current drought conditions and increasing long-term drought risk driven by climate variability and climate change. The core purpose is to strengthen drought resilience on Tribal lands by improving decision support, planning, monitoring, and practical tools that Tribal governments and their partners can use to make better, faster, and more locally relevant drought-related decisions, consistent with IRA authority under P.L. 117-169, Section 40001.

Funding is offered through cooperative agreements, which generally means NOAA expects to have an active partnership role during the project period rather than acting only as a pass-through funder. Projects supported under this Notice of Funding Opportunity can cover a wide range of applied drought-resilience work, including drought vulnerability assessments, drought preparedness and response planning, and communication planning tailored to local Tribal contexts. NOAA also highlights work such as identifying the most significant drought impacts to communities and ecosystems, selecting meaningful drought indicators and decision triggers, improving drought monitoring approaches, and building drought dashboards or other decision-support tools that bring together relevant drought data in a usable way. Another emphasized theme is demonstrating real-world application: projects are encouraged not just to produce information, but to show how drought and climate data can be used to improve planning and operational choices.

The opportunity is administered within NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) through the Climate Program Office (CPO), which manages competitive programs that fund climate science, assessments, outreach, education, and capacity-building. While CPO often supports research, this program is strongly oriented toward actionable decision support and resilience-building that can be implemented on the ground in partnership with Tribal nations. The program is also framed as aligned with NOAA's FY 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, connecting the grants to broader federal goals around climate-ready communities, improved climate services, and stronger resilience outcomes.

Key grant details include an award ceiling of $700,000 per project and an expectation of about five awards. The opportunity number is NOAA OAR CPO 2024 2008188, the CFDA (assistance listing) number is 11.431, and it is categorized as discretionary funding. The original application closing date listed is February 15, 2024, and the opportunity was created on September 20, 2023. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with additional eligibility details referenced in the full notice, which typically signals that specific applicant types (often including Tribal governments and potentially Tribal organizations or partners) are defined in the complete NOFO text.

A notable requirement is that applicants must address NOAA, OAR, and CPO expectations around diversity and inclusion. Proposals are evaluated in part on how well they incorporate these principles into both project design and implementation. In this context, diversity is described as the mix of individual attributes that help organizations meet their goals, and inclusion is described as building a culture that connects each person to the organization. NOAA presents this as a practical program-strengthening expectation, arguing that diverse and inclusive approaches improve creativity, productivity, and the overall strength of the climate and decision-support community involved in the work.

Overall, this opportunity is best understood as targeted IRA-supported funding to help Western Tribal nations strengthen drought preparedness and resilience by building locally relevant tools, plans, indicators, monitoring approaches, and communication strategies, with NOAA involvement through cooperative agreements and an emphasis on measurable decision-support benefits and inclusive project practices.

• The Department of Commerce in the business and commerce, education, environment, natural resources, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Climate Program Office FY24 NIDIS Tribal Drought Resilience with Inflation Reduction Act Support" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 11.431.
• This funding opportunity was created on Sep 20, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 15, 2024. (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 $700,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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