National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program Fiscal Year 2025 Tribal Funding Opportunity Announcement | USDA APHIS 10025 VSSP0000 25 0002

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The National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program (NADPRP) Fiscal Year 2025 Tribal Funding Opportunity Announcement is a USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Veterinary Services (VS) grant opportunity designed to strengthen animal disease prevention, preparedness, and response capacity in Tribal communities. The program is offering up to $500,000 total to support projects that improve how Tribes and Tribal partners plan for, prevent, and respond to animal disease outbreaks affecting livestock and poultry, with additional eligible focus areas that include aquatic animals and equine health. Funding is offered through cooperative agreements, meaning recipients should expect an active partnership style relationship with USDA APHIS during the project period rather than a fully hands-off grant.

The funding is intended for practical, on-the-ground improvements that help limit the spread and impacts of high-consequence animal diseases. Projects can focus on building or updating Tribal animal disease emergency response plans and, importantly, exercising those plans through drills, tabletop exercises, or functional exercises so that roles, communications, and decision-making are tested before a real outbreak occurs. Another major emphasis is biosecurity, including measures and programs that reduce the likelihood of disease introduction and transmission on farms, at community animal facilities, during animal gatherings, or along common movement routes. Applicants can also propose work that strengthens readiness for difficult response tasks during outbreaks, such as depopulation operations (when necessary), carcass disposal planning and capacity, and cleaning and disinfection (decontamination), all of which can be resource-intensive and logistically complex in remote or rural settings.

Several topic areas focus on managing and containing disease once it is detected. The announcement highlights support for animal movement decisions during an outbreak, which can include planning and decision frameworks for movement controls, continuity of business considerations, permitting concepts, and coordination approaches that balance disease control with the needs of producers and communities. It also supports improving animal disease traceability during an outbreak, which generally means strengthening the ability to rapidly identify where animals have been and where they may have been exposed, so responders can quarantine, test, or otherwise intervene more effectively. Training and exercises are also specifically called out as eligible, including developing and delivering training programs that improve outbreak response capabilities among Tribal animal health staff, producers, emergency managers, and partner organizations.

The opportunity also encourages projects that build awareness and readiness through outreach and education on prevention, preparedness, and response. This can include culturally appropriate communication materials, producer engagement, community workshops, and other educational strategies that increase participation in biosecurity and reporting. While livestock and poultry are central to the program, the announcement additionally lists enhancing aquatic animal disease preparedness and response as an eligible topic area, recognizing that fish and other aquatic species can face significant disease threats with economic and food security implications. Enhancing equine disease outbreak prevention and response is also included, supporting efforts that address horse health and the unique movement, event, and management patterns associated with equine populations.

Eligible applicants are limited to Tribal entities and Tribal-serving institutions, specifically Native American Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). The assistance listing is CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) 10.025, and the opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding under USDA APHIS. The funding opportunity number is USDA APHIS 10025 VSSP0000 25 0002. The original application closing date is January 24, 2025, and the opportunity record indicates a creation date of October 23, 2024.

• The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program Fiscal Year 2025 Tribal Funding Opportunity Announcement" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.025.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-10-23.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-01-24. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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