Deadline: 21-Jan-2025
This call supports projects seeking initial funding from L’Initiative (new projects) to strengthen health systems with a focus on human resources development.
As part of the funding cycle, L’Initiative has made health systems strengthening through support for health human resources a top priority. Well-trained and organized human resources are essential for building effective, high-performing health systems to combat HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Aims
- It is against this backdrop that L’Initiative plans to support projects that take a systemic approach to sustainably strengthening health systems, health systems policy and regulation, organizational structure and the behaviors and practices of key stakeholders, including taking a “One Health” approach. This approach prioritizes strengthening human resources for health and integrates a human rights and gender equality approach into all activities.
- Under this call for proposals, L’Initiative will therefore be particularly focused on the promotion and prioritization of measures aimed at:
- Strengthening human resources for health through, in particular:
- L’Initiative’s definition of human resources for health (HRH) refers to all medical, paramedical and nonmedical staff, including all community health workers, who carry out different roles in the health system, making it possible to address health issues and respond as a priority to Sustainable Development Goal.
- Interventions to strengthen initial and ongoing training for human resources for health as a key catalyst to ensure effective provision to the population, i.e. having sufficient numbers of health personnel that are sufficiently competent and qualified to meet needs.
- Promoting training that provides certificates and diplomas, including for community health workers.
- Promoting gender mainstreaming as a major determinant of health in the training curricula for health professionals.
- Promoting training that follows international guidelines.
- Promoting the availability and quality of educational infrastructure and equipment.
- Professional, teaching and interpersonal skills of trainers.
- Management and accreditation of programs.
- Geographic spread of training programs and internships to ensure a good distribution of health professionals.
- Interventions to support policies, programs and to strengthen and manage human resources for health, aimed in particular at:
- Geographic planning and distribution of human resources for health based on demographic and health data.
- Programs to structure and forecast plan professions.
- More efficient distribution of tasks.
- Occupational health.
- Regulating health professionals in the public, private, for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.
- Recruitment and professional integration methods for young graduates.
- Quality and practice checks.
- Health professional status, particularly community health professionals.
- Financing and remuneration of health personnel and benefits allowing for their retention in the system, good living conditions and a safe professional environment conducive to delivering quality care, as well as local support/mentoring, etc
- Gender mainstreaming and diversity in human resources for health policies, procedures and interventions
- Integration of mental health into health services.
- Of the key issues relating to HRH, this call for proposals aims to take action around:
- Strengthening community health systems through training and support for community actors.
- Gender equality and preventing discrimination.
- Improving the quality and acceptability of health services, including how welcoming they are.
- Improving the quality of health services and the care relationship.
- Strengthening national systems for procurement and supply management (PSM)systems for drugs and health products, as well as strengthening pharmaceutical governance including linkages with national and regional drug agencies.
- Projects that align HIV, tuberculosis and malaria control programs with sexual and reproductive health, maternal, child and adolescent health programs and integrated service delivery platforms at all levels of the health system, including at the community level.
- Strengthening health information systems, with particular focus on the production and use of safe, quality, timely, transparent and interoperable health data, respecting human rights and in accordance with the ethical principles for the primary and secondary use of health data adopted and promoted in global health by the European Union.
- Strengthening human resources for health through, in particular:
Funding Information
- The total requested grant amount must cover at least 50% of the project budget and be between €650,000 and €3,500,000.
Duration
- Project duration must be between 36 and 48 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- It must be submitted by a lead applicant, in collaboration with “implementing partners” or “associate stakeholders”
- The “lead applicant” is the organization that submits the letter of intent and completes the full proposal if they are pre-selected. Lead applicants are the sole recipients of L’Initiative grants and shall be individually responsible vis-à-vis Expertise France for implementation of the Project.
- The project lead applicant must be legally registered and have a board of directors/management committee and a registered headquarters in an eligible country or in France. International organizations, with the exception of regional non-state organizations, may not be the lead applicant or an implementing partner of projects. However, they can be associated stakeholders that do not receive any delegated budget.
- The lead applicant must have been legally registered for at least 3 years at the time of project submission.
- Lead applicants and implementing partners must not have any statutory provisions that prevent Expertise France, or any external auditor appointed by Expertise France, to carry out on-the-spot checks and inspections and have relevant rights to access the project sites and premises where the project will be carried out, including access to all documents and electronic data relating to the technical and financial management of the project.
- Be implemented in one or more of the 38 eligible countries listed below:
- Algeria, Benin, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra, Leone, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vietnam.
For more information, visit L’Initiative.