Gavi Funding for Civil Society Organisations in Madagascar

Deadline: 20-Nov-2024

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is accepting proposals for the Funding Program.

Objectives

• The overall objective of these grants is to enable CSOs to monitor and support the efforts of health workers and community health workers (CHWs) to increase immunization coverage and reach zero-dose children and missed communities.
• The subsidized activities must cover the following three main objectives:
  • Generate demand and mobilize communities
    • Guide, plan, train, support supervision and finance the work of the ACs, while acting as an intermediary between health workers at the CSB level and the ACs concerned.
    • Clearly define the respective roles of ACs, RCs, CSOs and, where appropriate, care groups or other community groups.
    • Support the AC if the community relay does not yet exist and support the creation of community relays with the community.
    • Finalize Human Centered Design (HCD) and adapt communication to the specific context of target districts, print and distribute existing communication materials within the framework of the national strategy.
    • Deploy community-based interventions that build trust and demand for vaccination and essential health services, integrating a proactive gender perspective to overcome social and gender-specific barriers to accessing services.
    • Mobilize influential figures, including traditional and religious leaders, traditional practitioners, school principals or heads of establishments.
  • Provision of services
    • Collect and analyze patient feedback on their experience of vaccination services, in order to better identify and address weaknesses in service delivery, their causes, and propose solutions at the CSB/FSP (Private Health Facility) level.
    • Assist health districts/CSB Chiefs to develop and implement advanced and mobile strategies and finance logistics in remote areas.
  • Health information systems, monitoring and evaluation
    • Support ACs and RCs in data collection and filling out the RMA
    • (Monthly Activity Report) community
    • Organize data restitution and coordination meetings at district level with the CSB Chiefs.

Types of Grants

• Acceleration Grant
• Impact Grant

Funding Information

• Alaotra Mangoro East 
  • Impact Grant: US$ 300,000-$400,000
• Diana 
  • Acceleration Grant: US$ 100,000-$150,000
  • Impact Grant: US$ 500,000 – $600,000
• Southwest
  • Acceleration Grant: US$ 100,000 – $150,000
  • Impact Grant: US$ 500,000 – $600,000
• South East
  • Impact Grant: US$ 500,000

Duration

• The expected duration of the application process, then pre-contractual development until signing the contract, is approximately three months. The subsidized projects could therefore start around February 2025, the proposals must cover until June 2026.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible organizations
  • Impact Grants
    • Applications are open to local and international CSOs.
    • If international CSOs apply for an Impact grant, they will be expected to work with a network of smaller national CSOs downstream to implement the interventions.
    • The eligibility criteria for this funding are as follows:
      • Applicants must be local or international non-governmental organizations operating in Madagascar, non-profit and officially registered in Madagascar and registered with the Partnership Service of the Ministry of Health (having a letter of collaboration with the Ministry of Health at the central, regional or district level).
      • Applicants must have an office in Madagascar, with strong community roots in the target districts, directly and/or indirectly through an established network of community partners.
      • Candidates must have successfully implemented similar activities over the past last three years.
      • Candidates must have received and managed resources from other international organizations in the past.
  • Acceleration Grant
    • The eligibility criteria for this type of grant are as follows:
      • Applicants must be local non-governmental organizations, operating in Madagascar, non-profit; and, officially registered in Madagascar and registered with the Partnership Service of the Ministry of Health (having a letter of collaboration with the Ministry of Health at the central, regional or district level).
      • Applicants must have an office in Madagascar, with strong community roots in the target districts, directly and/or indirectly through an established network of community partners.
      • Candidates must have successfully implemented similar activities over the past last three years.
      • Candidates must have a bank account in Madagascar on which it is possible to pay and receive funds denominated in US dollars.

For more information, visit Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.