Deadline: 28 February 2020
The 5% Initiative is seeking proposals for a program entitled “Access to health care for vulnerable populations (VPs)”.
The purpose of this call for proposals is to select projects that complement and/or support Global Fund investments to improve the quality of health and support services and to improve service access for the most vulnerable populations, through adapted strategies that are gender sensitive and integrated at community level.
These projects must be catalytic, that is to say in other words, they should be capable of changing practices and/or policies.
Target Beneficiaries for Projects
Priority groups are:
- Key populations: Key populations are people who are most at-risk or affected by at least one of the three diseases and who are stakeholders in the response. They generally have less access to services and may be criminalized and / or marginalized. The following are generally considered to be key populations:
- For HIV: people living with HIV, men who have sex with men, sex workers and their clients, transgender people, people who use drugs and their partners, people in prisons or other detention centers, refugees, migrants, displaced or mobile populations;
- For tuberculosis: people living with HIV, people who use drugs, people in prisons or other detention centers, refugees, migrants, displaced or mobile populations;
- For malaria: pregnant women and children under 5, indigenous populations living in regions where malaria is endemic, refugees, migrants, displaced or mobile populations.
- Other vulnerable populations: Population groups who are more vulnerable in particular contexts and that do not fall into the categories mentioned above, including children and adolescent girls, young girls and women and people with disabilities.
Funding Information
The total grant amount from the 5% Initiative must cover at least 50% of the project budget and be between € 500,000 and € 3,000,000. It is mandatory for organizations with an annual budget of over €5 million to present co-financing of at least 10% in the project budget.
Duration
Project duration must be between 24 and 48 months.
Eligible Projects
- Projects that build the capacity of national and community actors
- Although proposed projects can include operational research, this cannot represent the major component of the project
Countries
The countries eligible for this call are: Algeria, Benin, Burma/Myanmar, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominican Republic, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Vietnam.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for a grant, applicants must meet all the following conditions:
- Be a legal entity with its head office in one of the eligible countries or in France (i.e. be legally registered in an eligible country or in France). International organizations, with the exception of regional organizations, will not be able to lead projects or receive funding.
- Projects must be implemented in partnership. Partners must be involved in project design and be responsible for implementing activities;
- Project implementation partners must be delegated implementation of the budget;
- Include at least one local partner from each implementing country;
- Organizations must not have any statutory provisions that exclude Expertise France, or any external auditor appointed by Expertise France, from carrying out on-the-spot checks and inspections and having the relevant rights to access project sites and premises where the project will be carried out, including access to all documents and electronic data concerning the technical and financial management of the project.
- For this call for proposals, each organization can only submit a maximum of two letters of intent as lead applicant (lead agency). In addition, each organization can only submit three letters of intent across all the 5% Initiative calls for projects in one year.
For more information, visit https://www.initiative5pour100.fr/en/actualites/projet/access-health-vulnerable-populations-vp-245