USAID/Tanzania is seeking applications from Tanzanian, international, or US Non‐Governmental Organizations (NGOs) or private for‐profit organizations for the “Comprehensive, Integrated, and Sustainable HIV/AIDS Services” program aimed at enhancing multi‐sectoral response to HIV/AIDS.
Eligible organizations are invited to submit applications which describe proposed approaches and methods of building greater program sustainability and ensuring service delivery integration for HIV/AIDS services. Proposed programming approaches should demand and utilize the expertise and experience of Tanzanian partners (civil society, non‐governmental organization, public, and private) and encourage local ownership and leadership over time. If awarded, the consortium or partnership will be expected to engage, support, and strengthen the capacity of local Tanzanian institutions and entities to implement and manage comprehensive and integrated HIV/AIDS services and activities. Programs will be designed in accordance with Global Health Initiative (GHI) goals and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR II) principles. USAID/Tanzania anticipates making a range of 1‐2 awards through this APS to successful applicants.
Program Objective
To have cost‐effective, integrated, quality, and increasingly sustainable HIV/AIDS service delivery in targeted districts available to the majority of people in need.
The overall goal is to increase HIV/AIDS services program quality and build sustainability through more cost‐effective and locally driven approaches. As such, USAID/Tanzania welcomes concept papers that describe approaches that will strengthen the capability of Tanzanian entities/institutions to: ensure quality service delivery using existing platforms to the extent possible; build linkages between clinic and community‐based services and activities; integrate basic health and HIV/AIDS services within facilities; and help move HIV/AIDS services towards increased sustainability.
Program Components
The applicant is invited to articulate an integrated development approach and is free to develop a broad package of interventions that will result in cost‐effective, integrated, quality, and increasingly sustainable HIV/AIDS service delivery in targeted districts available to the majority of people in need.
These facility‐based care services include, but are not limited to: HIV counseling and testing services, prevention of mother‐to‐child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, early infant diagnosis (EID); care and treatment of HIV that includes pediatric HIV; tuberculosis and HIV (TB and TB/HIV), palliative care; treatment and prevention of opportunistic infections including cotrimoxazole prophylaxis; cervical cancer screening; family planning and reproductive health services; provision of insecticide treated nets; malaria prophylaxis; Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention (PHDP) services; nutritional assessment counseling and services (NACS); and critical support systems such as laboratory; drugs and commodities logistics, quality assurance; monitoring and evaluation. Effective gender‐specific needs and sensitivities to women and girls should be taken into consideration.
Expected Results
The proposed consortium/partnerships are expected to achieve concrete and measurable and scheduled results. It is expected that the program will result in clearly measurable improvements in the integration, cost‐effectiveness, and sustainability of HIV/AIDS service delivery, with clear annual measurements of improvement and demonstrable increases in the capacity of Tanzanian institutions/entities/partners to plan, prioritize, budget and manage programs.
This is a restricted call for applications. In the first stage, applicants need to submit only the concept papers and thereafter only successful applicants will be asked to submit the full application.
Last date for submission of concept papers is September 8, 2011
For more information and details, visit this link and search by Funding Opportunity Number USAID-TANZANIA-11-008-APS.
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