The Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to support the Nigerian interagency in designing, revising, and implementing crisis response plans and protocols. Nigeria is Africa’s largest democracy with a population of over 230 million people and the
continent’s largest economy. However, Nigeria currently faces a terrorist threat from primarily
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria West Africa Province (ISIS-WA), the largest ISIS affiliate
outside Iraq and Syria, that continues to expand throughout the country. Boko Haram, alQa'ida-aligned Ansaru, and a myriad of gangs and bandit organizations also remain persistent
threats. Ensuring that Nigeria’s civilian security services are capable of responding to and
managing a crisis is critical to ensuring the safety, stability, and prosperity of the country.
This program should identify how the Nigerian interagency prepares crisis response plans, who
is involved in that process, and how those plans are tested. CT expects the selected
implementer to build the Nigerian interagency’s capacity to develop and/or update these crisis
response plans through trainings, mentorship, and simulation exercises and assist the Nigerian
interagency with developing their own trainings and exercises to maintain those crisis response
plans after the program is over.
The application should show an emphasis on interagency coordination in the program’s theory
of change and an explanation of how interagency coordination will be assessed and measured.
CT is also interested in how the implementer will facilitate sustainability through preparing the
Nigerian interagency to institutionalize crisis response reviews. CT can also assist the selected
implementer in coordinating and deconflicting program activities with previous foreign
assistance programs that worked on this topic. Program Goal: Nigeria’s civilian security services are capable of effectively executing crisis
response measures using interagency coordination and institutionalizing emergency
management procedures, including the allocation of resources for response activities.
Program Objective(s): This program seeks to achieve the following objectives:
1. By 2026, Nigeria has assessed its current interagency coordination efforts and crisis
response plans. This objective must be met before the period of performance ends as all
other objectives will build on it.
2. By 2027, Nigeria has developed or updated crisis response management plans that
delineate roles, responsibilities, and authorities among applicable agencies and/or
entities depending on where, when, and what type of crisis has occurred.
3. By 2027, Nigeria’s designated civilian security agencies (noted in Participants and
Audiences) and interagency coordination capacities are strengthened through training,
exercises, and simulations based on the crisis response plans developed with the
assistance of the selected implementer.
4. By 2027, Nigeria’s designated civilian security agencies and interagency coordination
capacities are assessed through tabletop exercises to determine the sustainability of
crisis response planning, development, and validation procedures.

Participants and Audiences: The intended target audience includes Nigeria’s Office of the
National Security Advisor, the Department of State Security Services, Nigeria Police Force,
Nigeria’s Security and Civil Defense Corps, INTERPOL’s Abuja National Central Bureau, Nigeria’s
National Counterterrorism Center, Nigeria Immigration Service, and other Nigerian civilian
security agencies and relevant ministries.