Deadline: 28 February 2020
The 5% Initiative has launched a Call for Proposals entitled “Strengthening health systems at all levels (community or national) (HSS)”.
This call for proposals aims to complement Global Fund investments and will finance projects meeting the four objectives of the Global Fund 2017-2022 strategy:
- Improving systems for the management, procurement and supply of health products;
- Strengthening the knowledge, skills and practices of human resources for health to meet the needs of the health system and populations;
- Supporting reproductive, women’s, children’s and adolescent health, and platforms for integrated service delivery;
- Promoting and strengthening community systems and the involvement of communities in national decision-making processes.
This call for proposals aims to select projects that complement and/or support Global Fund investments, contributing to building or strengthening systems that are gender-sensitive and that allow populations to access quality services, particularly in the response to the three pandemics. These projects must be catalytic, in other words, they should be capable of changing practices and/or policies.
Eligible Projects
Different types of projects can be submitted:
- Projects to build the capacity of national or regional actors, including community actors.
- Projects to strengthen national procurement and supply management systems for medicines and health products (PSM) as well as strengthening pharmaceutical governance
- Projects supporting reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health programs and integrated service delivery platforms at all levels of the health system, including at community level
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. Including co-financing will be judged favorably for other organization.
Duration
Project duration must be between 24 and 48 months.
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.
Projects must be carried out exclusively for beneficiaries in one or a combination of these countries, and must relate to eligible Global Fund focus areas (HSS, HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis).
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.
- 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/strengthening-health-systems-all-levels-community-or-national-hss-244