Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant (EMBAG)

The summary for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant (EMBAG) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Department of Homeland Security FEMA, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant (EMBAG): The purpose of the FY 2020 EMBAG is to help ensure that jurisdictions (state, tribal, territorial, and local communities) have accredited emergency management programs and certified emergency management professionals in place in advance of an incident. To achieve this purpose, the EMBAG Program supports voluntary national-level standards and peer review assessment processes that jurisdictions can use to identify the capacity and shortfalls of their emergency management programs and professionals and develop a path to compliance. Specifically, the EMBAG supports: The development, maintenance, update, revision, and enhancement of voluntary national-level standards and peer review assessment processes for emergency preparedness and response that are driven, established, validated, and revised through consensus; Related efforts to develop or update national-level accreditation for these standards; and The assessment of select state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management programs and professionals against these national-level standards. For more details, please refer to the current program notice of funding opportunity on grants.gov.