Deadline: 11-Jan-23
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement a program entitled “Enhancing Quality of Healthcare Activity II”.
The USAID/Cambodia Mission seeks to procure a new five-year health system strengthening activity with the goal of enhancing quality, sustainability and responsiveness of health services in the public and private sectors to maximize health outcomes among Cambodians, including vulnerable populations.
Themes
- Private Sector Engagement
- Gender and Inclusive Development
- Localization/ New Partnership Initiative (NPI)
- Sustainability
- Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting
- Digital Health
Objectives and Results
- Objective 1: Improved evidence-based policy, guidelines, and strategies for more effective and efficient health service systems.
- Results
- Policies, guidelines and strategies of national programs are coordinated and integrated with MoH, and incorporate health system thinking.
- Policies, guidelines and strategies addressing specific program areas (such as MCH, FP, and TB) are improved, in line with international and country-specific best practices and approaches.
- Documented use of data and evidence for quality improvement, leading to more effective planning, monitoring and evaluation, and decision making.
- Objective 2: Improved individual and institutional capacity of the public and private sectors to implement, monitor and evaluate quality assurance according to the national standards.
- Results
- Strengthened systems of national and subnational institutions to manage licensing and accreditation of health services.
- Improved capacity of health providers and managers to monitor and improve facility quality, self-regulate, and meet licensing and accreditation standards.
- Improved organization of the private sector and coordination with the public sector at national and subnational levels to develop and implement quality improvement policy and guidelines related to both providers behavior and facility quality standards.
- Objective 3: Improved individual and institutional capacity of subnational health systems to provide quality services to address emerging national program priorities.
- Results
- Increased capacity of the private sector health system to provide quality services related to family planning, MCH, TB, HIV and other diseases as appropriate.
- Improved capacity of public providers and strengthened systems to deliver highquality emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) services, particularly in rural areas.
- Improved capacity of providers and strengthened public and private sector systems to deliver high-quality family planning services, including long-acting reversible family planning and postpartum family planning.
- Improved capacity of public health care providers and strengthened systems to implement comprehensive services to screen, prevent, detect and treat TB services, particularly at health center level.
- Improved healthy facility capacity to prevent, detect and respond to emerging pandemic health threats.
Funding Information
- Subject to funding availability, USAID/Cambodia intends to provide up to $35 million in total USAID funding to support this program over a 5-year period.
- The base amount for this award is expected to be approximately $30 million. In addition to this base amount, the Cooperative Agreement will include an opportunity module of up to $5 million inclusive of indirect costs.
Geographical Focus
- This Activity will build upon the previous investment of USAID programs in supporting the reform of health systems, especially managers’ and providers’ capacity and policies for improved quality of health services in both public and private sectors. The proposed interventions will take place at the national and subnational levels. The focus on selected provinces should be on the development of enhanced quality improvement and management models, where the implementation of the new law on health services management can be implemented and enforced, and lessons learned can be fed into national systems. The activities should focus on various health facility levels and types, and link with community health networks.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. and non-US organizations from the authorized geographic code (937) may participate under this NOFO. USAID encourages applications from potential new partners.
- USAID will not accept applications from individuals. All applications must be legally recognized organizational entities under applicable law.
- Potential for-profit applicants must note that USAID policy prohibits the payment of fee/profit to the prime Recipient under assistance instruments. Forgone profit does not qualify as costshare.
- Faith-based organizations are eligible to apply for federal financial assistance on the same basis as any other organization and are subject to the protections and requirements of Federal law.
- USAID welcomes applications from organizations which have not previously received financial assistance from USAID.
- Applicants must have established financial management, monitoring and evaluation processes, internal control systems, and policies and procedures that comply with established U.S. Government standards, laws, and regulations. The successful applicant(s) will be subject to a responsibility determination assessment (Pre-award Survey) by the Agreement Officer (AO).
- The Recipient must be a responsible entity. The AO may determine a pre-award survey is required to conduct an examination that will determine whether the prospective recipient has the necessary organization, experience, accounting and operational controls, and technical skills – or ability to obtain them – in order to achieve the objectives of the program and comply with the terms and conditions of the award.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344436