Deadline: 18-Oct-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is inviting CSO/NGOs to submit a Proposal to select Sub-Recipients (SRs) for Technical/programmatic capacity strengthening (PLHIV Support) and Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) – Community Systems Strengthening Programme in Western Pacific Region, financed through a grant from the Global Fund (GF).
Objectives
The overall objective of the Global Fund financed HIV and TB grant is to support the national and regional efforts across 11 Pacific islands countries (PICs) to scale up and improve the response to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) through prevention, treatment, care and support services, with special attention to key and vulnerable population groups. The Global Fund support are aligned with the following four critical objectives:
- Strengthening comprehensiveness and quality of HIV prevention, treatment, and care service delivery models with a view to programmatic sustainability.
- Strengthen resilience of community and health systems
- To provide early rapid and quality diagnosis of TB and MDR-TB, with specific focus on screening and diagnosis in 11 Pacific Island Countries (PICs)
- To sustain high quality treatment for all forms of TB including drug-resistant TB
Goals
- The HIV component focuses on two major goals:
- Support the implementation of community-based integrated HIV and SRH services for key and vulnerable populations; and
- Strengthen the mid- and long-term sustainability of the regional and national responses to HIV, STIs from a broader perspective of SRH and strengthening human rights of key populations and PLHIV and tackling the major gender issues underlying these SRH-related problems.
- These are all geared towards increasing quality of care for better outcomes through removal of human rights and gender related barriers for equitable access to services.
Lots
The successful national SRs will each implement one of the following specific interventions of the CSS and HIV Treatment, care and Support modules in the 11 Pacific Islands Islands as indicated under the budget amount for programmatic activities over the period 2022 – 2023:
- Lot 1: Strengthening Institutional/Organizational Capacity (CSO Support): USD 135,000; and
- Lot 2: Technical/programmatic capacity strengthening (PLHIV Support): USD 100,000;
Beneficiaries
Eligible proposals will be those from registered Regional CSOs and NGOs and targeting as direct and final beneficiaries people living with HIV, key populations, women living with HIV, people with disabilities, AGYW coordination platforms and other relevant Regional stakeholders.
Geographic Areas
11 Pacific Countries: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
Eligibility Criteria
Interested national registered NGOs/CSOs must meet the following criteria to be eligible for the selection:
- Officially Registered Non-governmental organization (NGO)/ civil society organization (CSO) in any of the Pacific Island Countries and with network presence or alliance to CSOs/NGOs in these 11 Pacific Islands Countries. The organisation should be inexistence for a minimum of 2 years.
- Experience in the management of Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH): Community Systems Strengthening (CSS Module) that includes interventions on community based monitoring; or community empowerment; or community led advocacy and/or research; institutional capacity building, planning, leadership and social mobilization;
- Experience in project implementation or execution of contracts for provision of professional services in the area of grant programmes management with a minimum annual grant/project funds value of USD 60,000.00.
- Legal status of the organization should enable it to receive UNDP grant pool without the Responsible Party’s incurring in tax liabilities.
- NGOs/CSOs must have a team of at least four members satisfying the requirements
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=83763