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DFID : Sustaining and Accelerating Primary Health in Ethiopia (SAPHE)

Deadline: 31 May 2016 The U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) is seeking applications for its Sustaining and Accelerating Primary Health in Ethiopia (SAPHE) programme, a five year (2015-2020) programme that will provide up to £250 million to support the Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP, 2015-2020) of Ethiopia. The purpose of the programme is to […]

Webinar Video: How to Raise Funds from DFID

The webinar video on ‘How to Raise Funds from DFID’ is now available online.

The Department for International Development (DFID) in the United Kingdom is a major source of funds and partnership opportunities for NGOs around the world. DFID offers a significant amount of funding resources for NGOs through grant opportunities and requests for applications. Its funding resources support a wide range of issues areas: education, health, poverty reduction, the environment, water and sanitation.

Despite this, many NGOs often do not apply for funding with DFID because of the complexity and highly competitive nature of the DFID grant system including difficulty in understanding grant guidelines, compilcated instructions and more.

This entry-level webinar will help NGOs identify and apply to DFID request for applications and grant opportunities.

This video covers:

DFID Geographic Landscape: Geographic priorities, Issue Sectors and Financial Instruments & Eligibility
How to Participate: Information sources for upcoming calls for proposals
The Application Process: The Request for Application Process & the Basic overview on developing the Letter of Interest (LOI), Budget and Full Grant Application

Trainer

Megan Kenna is an entrepreneurial resource mobilization professional, with international experience raising funds for NGOs, start-ups, and development organizations in the US, Europe, and Africa. Megan has worked with dozens of governmental and international organizations. She is an experienced proposal developer, having raised over US$60 million for a range of program around the world. Megan has developed a broad range of successful applications to government agencies, including USAID and DFID, for development organizations large and small. She has worked in both the US and Europe.

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Apply to Participate in Meeting the WASH 2020 Challenge!

Deadline: 1 May 2016

DFID invites applications for its early stage of ‘Meeting the WASH 2020 Challenge programme’, expected to operate in a similar manner as the current WASH Results Programme.

The programme aims to reach people with improved sanitation or water together with hygiene promotion by March 2020.

DFID will directly oversee and manage the portfolio, providing management, policy and monitoring oversight, having geographic coverage including low- and lower-middle income countries where there are significant WASH needs and where relevant high levels of malnutrition (predominately stunting or wasting). The principal focus should be on the priority countries where DFID has a bilateral programme.

Programme Focus

To be classified as nutrition-sensitive, a programme needs to:

Include nutrition as an objective, and include malnutrition indicators (e.g. stunting/ wasting) at impact-level
Contribute to at least one nutrition-sensitive outcome – in this case the relevant outcome is ‘improve women’s or adolescent girls’ or children’s access to water, sanitation and hygiene’
Be aimed in part or in full at women and / or children below 5 years DFID’s intent is to source, through a competitive process, up to five suppliers or consortia of suppliers to deliver WASH and nutrition-sensitive WASH results that will make a significant contribution to the UK Government’s WASH and Nutrition targets.

How to Apply

Interested applicants are required to register themselves on DFID Supplier Portal.

Note: The UK’s aid relationship with India has evolved, and the programme cannot fund interventions in India.

For more information, please visit WASH 2020.

Call for Applications: Design and Implementation of Mid-Term Review and Final Evaluation for the Institutions for Inclusive Development Programme

Deadline: 12 May 2016

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is seeking a supplier to design and then implement a mid term review (MTR – early 2019) and a final evaluation (early 2021) for the main programme management contract under its Institutions for Inclusive Development (I4ID) programme.

This programme’s aim is to support the development in Tanzania.

How to Apply

Interested applicants are required to apply by registering themselves on DFID Supplier Portal.

For more information, please visit DFID Tanzania.

DFID: Future Infrastructure & Economic Development Programmes in Nepal

Deadline: 1 June 2016

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is in the final stages of developing the next 5 year plan for support to Nepal. For the Business Case approvals, DFID is soon launching number of new competitive opportunities to fulfill its commitments.

DFID will hold two early market engagement events during the month of April to discuss specific future programmes requirements in Nepal. These include:

First

Post-Earthquake Reconstruction in Nepal – Building Back Better
RAP3 Mugu – Humla Link Road Programme

Second

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Priority Areas

The program priority areas include:

improving infrastructure;
increasing economic development and improving access to jobs;
expanding the response to the post-earthquake reconstruction.

How to Apply

Interested applicants are required to register themselves to DFID supplier portal in order to apply.

For more information, please visit the following link

https://supplierportal.dfid.gov.uk/selfservice/pages/public/supplier/publicbulletin/viewPublicNotice.cmd?bm90aWNlSWQ9NjU5MDA%3D

DFID’s Programme on Preventing Violence Against Adolescent Girls in Ghana

Deadline: 29 April 2016

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has announced a five year programme titled- Preventing Violence Against Adolescent Girls (PVAAG) in order to contribute to the prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Ghana.

It combines five mutually supportive components, bringing a holistic approach to the prevention of violence against women and girls that works at the individual, interpersonal, community and societal levels. At outcome level, the intervention seeks to reduce violence as experienced among adolescent girls in target communities.

The programme focuses on improving the enabling environment and the capability of adolescent girls to protect themselves from violence (including addressing harmful social norms that drive VAWG) as well as strengthening the evidence base on violence against adolescent girls in Ghana. Our intention is to focus on a results-based contract for this assignment.

How to Apply

Interested applicants may register themselves to DFID Supplier Portal to apply for the programme.

For more information, please visit the following link.

https://supplierportal.dfid.gov.uk/selfservice/pages/public/supplier/publicbulletin/viewPublicNotice.cmd?bm90aWNlSWQ9NjYwNDA%3D

Nepal Health Sector Programme III: DFID’s Initiative to Support Health Sector in Nepal

Deadline: 29 April 2016

Department for International Development (DFID), with an intention to implement a new programme of support to Nepal Government, is currently seeking applications for its program titled- Nepal Health Sector Programme (NHSP) III.

The new programme will be an integral part of the third sector wide approach (SWAp) in the health sector in Nepal and is likely to form a combination of financial aid and technical assistance. The main purpose of the technical assistance will be to improve the efficiency of the entire Government of Nepal’s health sector programme. It will need to align to the new five year health sector plan (Nepal Health Sector Programme– 3) and work alongside Government and other donor partners. The technical assistance will need to focus on the critical areas that are constraining the delivery of both equitable and quality health services and the efficiency of the health service delivery system.

How to Apply

Interested applicants are required to register themselves to DFID Supplier Portal.

For more information, please visit NHSP III.

Apply to Participate in Humanitarian Emergency Response Operations and Stabilisation Programme

Deadline: 25 April 2016

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Stabilisation Unit (SU) are seeking applications for its Humanitarian Emergency Response Operations and Stabilisation Programme (HEROS). It is envisaged that the programme will run for up to 5 years subject to supplier performance and on-going need.

Program Objectives

The programme consists of the following objectives:

Humanitarian emergency response management
Humanitarian planning, preparedness and capacity building
Anticipation, surveillance and early warning/action
Management, coordination and communications – Operational capability and deployment
Sourcing staff including surge capacity
Staff deployment/management
Staff security – Procurement, logistics and operational capability Procurement support
Logistics support
Operational capability.

How to Apply

Interested applicants must register themselves to DFID Supplier Portal.

For more information, please visit DFID-HEROS.

DFID’s Migration and Refugee-Livelihoods Research Program in Ethiopia

Deadline: 26 September 2016

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is currently inviting applications for its programme titled- Migration and Refugee-Livelihoods Research in Ethiopia.

Program Focus

DFID Ethiopia will deliver a research project as part of a five-year programme from 2016 to 2020 that will:

Investigate and articulate the ‘pull and push factors’ related to Ethiopian migration, and identify the key humanitarian concerns.
Identify factors including market-opportunities, policy interventions and social frameworks that affect or could contribute to improved refugee household livelihoods practices and results among camps and for those living more directly within host communities, to inform proposed DFID programme interventions.
Track and assess the impact of different interventions on migration patterns, sustainable refugee livelihoods and humanitarian indicators over the period of the programme. This includes comparing different contexts and factors that may contribute (including DFID’s proposed funding for refugee humanitarian assistance and service delivery and looking at other programmes and interventions active).
Contribute to potential future programme design, changes in programme design and, policy development.

How to Apply

Interested applicants must register themselves to DFID Supplier Portal.

For more information, please visit DFID Ethiopia.

Call for Applications: DFID’s Accountable Justice in Pakistan Programme

Deadline: 15 April 2016

The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has currently announced a procurement of services to manage delivery of the Accountability Justice in Pakistan Programme (AJPP) for a period of 4 years starting from October 2016.

The Accountable Justice in Pakistan Programme (AJPP) aims to strengthen accountability and oversight of rule of law institutions in Pakistan, engage citizens in reforms and legally empower citizens to access justice.

Program Objectives

AJPP objectives are to achieve:

Increased accountability and oversight of law enforcement and justice institutions.
Increased engagement by citizens in reforms and legal empowerment for informed citizen choice of justice mechanism.

Award Information

The budget for this programme is 8, 000, 000 GBP – 12, 000, 000 GBP subject to ongoing need and availability of funding.

Eligibility Criteria

The law institutions of Pakistan are eligible to participate for the program.

How to Apply

Applicants are required to register themselves to DFID Supplier Portal, in order to apply.

For more information, please visit DFID-AJPP.