Deadline: 30-Jul-21
The Africa CDC, African Union, and the Mastercard Foundation invite proposals from implementing partners to provide implementation services to support implementation research in relation to COVID-19 vaccination rollout in African Union Member States.
The main goal of this Call for Proposals is to support African Union Member States’ COVID-19 vaccine rollout with strengthening health systems, and documenting overall health and non-health impact of the Programme.
Objectives
To assess the Saving Lives and Livelihoods Programme’s overall impact on:
- COVID-19 immunisation, mortality, and morbidity, and
- other health services:
- To estimate the real-world effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in Africa and compare the risk for severe outcomes of COVID-19 disease in fully vaccinated individuals with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection (vaccine breakthrough infections) with those in unvaccinated and partially vaccinated individuals.
- To explore behaviour change over time of COVID-19 vaccine perception among individuals of different societal structures and in different geographies.
- To evaluate the impact of the Programme on strengthening routine immunization programmes.
Funding Information
- The total indicative envelope available for this Call for Proposals is up to USD 2 million for the duration of the Programme.
- The planned duration of an action may not be lower than 3 Months nor exceed 36 Months.
Preference
There are five Lots for application and Applicants can apply for one or more Lots of their preference.
- North Africa Region (7 African Union Member States)
- East Africa Region (14 African Union Member States)
- Central African Region (9 African Union Member States)
- West African Region (15 African Union Member States)
- Southern African Region (10 African Union Member States)
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible as the Funding Recipient, or in the case of Partners, as the leading Partner for funding, Applicants must:
- be an entity with legal personality, and
- not be a Governmental Organisation, and
- be a not-for-profit organisation, and
- be an Indigenous African Organisation, and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with their Partners, not acting as an intermediary.
Potential Applicants may not participate in calls for proposals or be shortlisted for funding if they are in any of the situations of this guide.
For more information, visit https://africacdc.org/download/implementation-research-on-covid-19-vaccine-rollout-in-african-union-member-states/