Deadline: 30-Apr-22
The Government of Flanders is inviting proposals from multiple non-state actors that seek to support the implementation of provincial plans of Tete focusing on the demand side for the improvement of SRHR service delivery to the general population, with specific attention to inclusiveness towards vulnerable groups.
The Government of Flanders has a long-standing relationship with the Government of Mozambique. The commonly agreed Country Strategy Paper IV (CSP IV) 2021-2025 states as its mission “to promote the fundamental right to the highest attainable standard of health for the entire Mozambican population in general, and of its adolescent population more specifically, as part of a strategy to reduce absolute poverty in the country.
Objectives
- Strengthen the Health System to promote the access to SRHR-related service delivery, including maternal and new-born health, with specific attention on vulnerable groups (adolescents, gender and sexual minorities, people living with a disability and/or HIV, internally displaced persons).
- Projects must support existing systems/public health structures and provincial plans.
- To contribute to increased access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all Mozambicans, including maternal and newborn health, with specific attention to vulnerable groups.
- The projects must also include sufficient attention to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria through SRHR-related service integration and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women.
Cross Sectoral Themes
Core Values: Gender, Good Governance and Human Rights
As basic conditions for development project will devote particular attention to:
- promoting good governance
- Human rights
- Equal opportunities and the access to SRHR for individuals of vulnerable groups, with specific attention for (female) adolescents, people with disabilities, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV), sexual and gender minorities (SGM), migrants and internally displaced people, when programming and implementing their cooperation.
Integration of Adaptation to Climate Change and Health Emergency Preparedness
- The project proposals will integrate adaptation to climate change and health emergency
preparedness as much as possible. At the level of implementation, wherever necessary, appropriate climate risk and health emergency management measures will be foreseen within the project.
Funding Information
- The financial instrument used by the Government of Flanders for this Cfp is a grant allocation. Only projects between a minimum of €1,400,000 and a maximum of €1,500,000 all costs included, will be considered.
- Co-financing is allowed only if completely transparent and integrated in the proposal.
Only eligible costs can be considered for a grant. Note that the eligible costs must be based on real costs, not lump sum amounts (except for subsistence costs/per Diem and indirect costs for which lump sum amounts is accepted).
Target Audience
- The target group for implementing the Cfp are non-state actors. These comprise not-for profit organisations, civil society, and academia, organized labour and community-based organisations actively involved in SRHR and health workforce development or a combination thereof. It is the intention of the Cfp to stimulate (multi-actor) partnerships, i.e. bigger non-state national or international organisations as lead organizations, partnering with smaller organisations and/or with private sector organisations (or organisations representing private sector, such as Associations) and/or with educational and/or knowledge institutions, and/or with multilateral organisations and/or state entities /agencies.
- A non-state applicant will act as lead organisation and as the contracting party – grant beneficiary.
- The lead organization must be registered in Mozambique, at the latest at the start of the project activities.
Eligibility Criteria
Each application of phase 1 will undergo an initial screening to assess eligibility and should meet all criteria below, in order to be selected for concept note evaluation.
- The lead applicant should be a non-state actor with experience in the Mozambican health sector;
- Only projects which are implemented in Tete province will be considered;
- At least one partner should have working experience in the province of Tete;
- The lead applicant should have experience in project management for the amount of at least 500,000 EUR;
- The budget covered by the grant should have value of between a minimum of
- €1,400,000 and a maximum of €1,500,000;
- The duration of the project should be of minimum 3 years and maximum of 4 years;
- All documents should be submitted both in the Portuguese and English language.
- All templates completed in full.
- All required documents submitted within the deadline.
- NB: Projects that do not meet each of the above points will be disqualified.
For more information, visit https://www.flanders.org.za/News/call-for-proposals-increased-access-to-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights-srhr-in-mozambique