Deadline: 30-Apr-22
Do you have a market-ready solution that can help meet the emergency needs of the pandemic? If yes, then apply for COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund!
They are inviting applications from healthcare enterprises, offering scalable market solutions to strengthen India’s COVID-19 response, augment health infrastructure, and improve capacities of healthcare workers. They are here to learn about your immediate needs and offer customized financial support, including grant funding and other financing options designed to ensure that the burden of debt does not derail the scale up and adoption of your high impact health product or service. This will be complemented with a strong technical assistance and capacity building component, enabling you to receive commercial investments through blended financing models for long-term sustainability and expansion.
Objectives
- Bridge supply-side gaps in life saving healthcare facilities to respond to COVID-19 in the immediate, medium and long term
- Accelerate scale up and adoption of high impact health solutions
- Mobilize resources for health solutions to build sustainable healthcare systems
- Promote local and comprehensive solutions at community and facility level for vulnerable population
Approaches
- Identify high impact healthcare solutions
- Facilitate access to affordable capital for healthcare enterprises
- Monitor and evaluate for impact at scale
Focus Areas
- Oxygen supply
- Healthcare infrastructure
- Vaccine supply and delivery systems
- Diagnostic products and services
- Pharmaceutical and supply chain management
- Medical devices
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Training and capacity building of health workers
- Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) for behavior change
Eligibility Criteria
- Can be for-profit or not-for-Profit
- Must be legally registered in India, with financial statements for at least one fiscal year on the date the application is submitted.
- The solution should be sustainable and demonstrate long term financial viability.
- The proposal must indicate fund utilization for operational expenditures in the project.
- Should be willing to channel most of the solutions funded by USAID to priority areas of tier-2 and tier-3 cities and priority populations, such as the rural and urban poor, those with low middle incomes; and tribal populations.
- Should not source goods and services with USAID funds from restricted geographies.
For more information, visit https://samridhhealth.org/apply-for-funding-new/