Rape Prevention and Education (RPE)

Purpose/Summary

The purpose of this NOFO CDC-RFA-CE-24-0027 is to build on the previous Rape Prevention and Education Program (RPE) NOFO CE-19-1902, to continue facilitating and monitoring  implementation of sexual violence prevention programs, practices, and policies. This five-year funding opportunity requires that recipients build infrastructure for sexual violence prevention; develop and enhance a state/territory action plan; implement community- and societal-level sexual violence prevention strategies that promote health equity; and utilize data to inform action. Completing these activities should increase capacity to promote health equity, implement/evaluate sexual violence prevention at the community- and societal levels, increase partner and community awareness of effective prevention strategies, and increase partner coordination to prevent sexual violence. These activities should also increase community-level implementation of sexual violence prevention strategies that reach high-burden communities and address social determinants of health, using data to understand inequities and monitoring and evaluation activities related to sexual violence prevention.

Under this NOFO, Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) recipients will have an opportunity to:

• Continue to build program and partner capacity to facilitate and monitor the implementation of sexual violence prevention programs, practices, and policies.
• Continue to support state and territorial health department’s implementation of community-and societal-level programs, practices, and policies to prevent sexual violence.
• Continue to support the implementation of data-driven, comprehensive, evidence-based sexual violence primary prevention strategies, and approaches focused mainly on health equity
• Continuously conduct data-to-action activities to inform changes or adaptations to existing sexual violence strategies or on selected and implemented additional strategies.

Ultimately, the RPE NOFO will seek to build the foundation for recipients to decrease sexual violence perpetration and victimization rates at the state/territory level and reduce disparities in sexual violence by addressing associated inequities in social and structural determinants of health.

Eligibility

The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is funded under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and Section 393A(a) of the PHS Act (42 USC § 280b-1b(a) and Section 392(a)(1) of the PHS Act (42 USC § 280b-1(a)(1)) legislative authority. Eligible entities are based on the VAWA legislation. The legislative authority requires CDC to fund the Rape Prevention and Education Program (RPE) and allocate funds in each fiscal year for:

• Each of the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Territories.
• State health departments or their Bona Fide Agents (this includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau).
• A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state as eligible to apply under the state eligibility in lieu of a state application. This should be stated in the project abstract. If applying as a bona fide agent of a state or local government, a legal, binding agreement from the state or local government as documentation of the status is required.

Funding

Approximate Number of Awards: 59

Total Period of Performance Funding: $209,950,000

Average One Year Award Amount: $803,000

Average $803,000. Territories-$40,000 Awards will be made to states and territories using the following population-based funding formula: U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Palau, American Samoa and Guam with approved applications will receive $40,000; the 50 states, District of Columbia and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico with approved applications will receive a base of $150,000.

The remainder of the funds will be allocated utilizing the percentage of each state’s population (50 states, DC and Puerto Rico) divided by the total US population, as stated in Violence Against Women Act.

Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)

Informational Webinar

CDC held an informational webinar on October 13, 2023, from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm (EST) for health departments applying.

• Informational Call Slide Show [2 MB, 66 Pages]

• Informational Call Audio Recording
  
• Informational call transcript [67 KB]
• Frequently Asked Questions [PDF – 263 KB]

Letter of Intent

A letter of intent (LOI) is not required.