Deadline: 13-Jan-25
L’Initiative is launching a Call for Expressions of Interest (C.E.I.) to improve the response to malaria by promoting, strengthening and scaling up community health approaches in the fight against malaria.
The CEI seeks to support the various effective interventions in the fight against malaria, from prevention, community surveillance, community diagnosis, care and referral, as well as malaria awareness for behavior change and vector control.
Areas of intervention
- Improve people’s access to existing malaria control resources by supporting community health approaches.
- Cross-cutting themes: projects may incorporate the following cross-cutting themes:
- Community monitoring and surveillance (including community-led monitoring);
- Strengthening data collection and analysis;
- Supporting vector control and mitigating the impact of climate change on vector control;
- Environmental health
- Support for the deployment of preventive measures such as chemoprevention and/or vaccines;
- Support for access to and compliance with treatment, including prophylaxis;
- Raising awareness and promoting health, combating inequalities in access to healthcare, particularly in terms of gender, and the impact of climate change on the fight against malaria;
- Strengthening the skills of community health workers;
- Capacity building for community health organizations and services;
- Cooperation between civil society organizations, primary healthcare structures, local authorities and national programs
- Gender approach: Projects must incorporate a cross-functional approach to tackling gender inequalities, in order to accelerate efforts to promote equality between women and men, girls and boys, and to take better account of their specific needs – including effective participation in decision-making and the implementation of activities.
- Cross-cutting themes: projects may incorporate the following cross-cutting themes:
Funding Information
- The indicative total amount made available under this call for expressions of interest is €8,000,000.
- L’Initiative wishes to finance several projects from this envelope. The total amount of the grant requested must be between €500,000 and €2,000,000
Duration
- The implementation period should be between 24 and 48 months.
Target Population
- The general population in affected areas, with particular attention to those most vulnerable to malaria (refugees and internally displaced persons, migrants, pregnant women, children under five, indigenous populations from highly endemic areas, etc.) and those geographically remote from health facilities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Countries of operation
- Burundi,
- Guinea,
- Liberia,
- Central African Republic,
- Democratic Republic of Congo,
- Sierra Leone.
- Projects submitted may be implemented in one or more of the countries on this list. Multi-country projects will only be accepted if they are part of a clearly justified regional setting.
- To be eligible, the organization must meet the following criteria:
- Lead applicant: The “lead applicant” is the organization that submits the letter of intent and will be the sole recipient and manager of L’Initiative grant. The lead partner, as well as its implementing partners, must not have any statutory provisions that would prevent Expertise France, or any external auditor appointed by Expertise France, from carrying out on-site checks and verifications and from having an appropriate right of access to the sites/premises where the project will be carried out, including all computerized documents and data concerning the technical and financial management of the project.
- Registration: the applicant must be a legal entity with its board of directors/executive committee and head office registered in one of the countries eligible for L’Initiative.
- Duration of legal existence: The principal holder must have been in existence for at least 3 years at the time the letter of intent is submitted.
- Financial: To be submitted by a main sponsor with sufficient management capacity to handle the budget requested.
For more information, visit L’Initiative.