Deadline: 21-Apr-25
The UNICEF is thrilled to seek applications to ensure that more newborns, children, adolescents, youth and women, especially from disadvantaged and vulnerable groups and those with disabilities, have access and utilize improved quality and shock-responsive healthcare services supported by integrated and multisectoral PHC approaches, and adopt positive health practices.
Objectives
- Output 1: By 2030 the national health-care system is strengthened to ensure more efficient health financing, evidence generation and use, and improved coordination to enable integrated and resilient primary health care.
- Output 2: By 2030 Primary health-care capacities are strengthened to provide enhanced quality and more equitable gender- and disability-responsive maternal, newborn, child and adolescent/youth health services in humanitarian and development contexts, with a focus on zero dose communities.
- Output 4: By 2030 Increased knowledge and capacities of the communities on behaviors, practices, and accountability around RMNCAH, immunization and key health practices in both development and humanitarian contexts in zero dose communities.
Focus Areas
- Child health
- Health – general
- Health in emergencies
- Health systems strengthening
- Immunization
- Maternal and newborn health, including emergency obstetric care.
Expected Outcomes
- Strengthen health system and resilience in priority regions: Prospective CSOs contributing to this programming area are expected to support the government to enable integrated and resilient primary helath system through financing health infrastructure and the rehabilitation of health-care facilities in the priority regions including Addis Ababa.
- Strengthening Primary Health Care for Quality, Gender-Responsive MNCH Services in Hard-to-Reach, Zero-Dose Communities: Prospective CSOs contributing to this programming area are expected to strengthen government health-care system to ensure more efficient health financing with an emphasis on enhancing community health insurance schemes, financing health infrastructure, rehabilitation of health-care facilities affected by conflict, generating evidence that facilitate a Primary Health care-centered approach and gender-responsive as well as youth– and disability-inclusive programming.
- Capacity building of health extension workers and community volunteers on interpersonal communication skills, RCCE and community-based surveillance: Prospective CSOs contributing to this programming area are expected to enhance the capacity of health workers and availability of essential RMNCAH commodities to improve quality and disability inclusive RMNCH including HIV/AIDS services in all regions of Ethiopia and Addis Ababa.
- Implementation of integrated and inclusive SBC interventions on immunization, health, RCCE, gender and youth engagement by applying HCD/BI: Prospective CSOs contributing to this programming area are expected to strengthen the empowerment, capacity building and engagement of community structures to enhance demand and improve accountability for integrated health services and risk communication.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a community-based organization or a national or international NGO with a legal personality recognized in accordance with Ethiopia’s national legislation.
- Be registered on the UNPP as a non-profit civil society organization.
For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.