Deadline: 19-Jul-21
The Centers for Disease Control has announced the applications for Strategic Planning in the Middle East/North Africa to support the mission and goals of CDC’s global health regionalization strategy and advance global health security.
To date, CDC has launched four regional platforms: South America, based in Brasilia, Brazil; Eastern Europe/Central Asia, based in Tbilisi, Georgia; Middle East/North Africa, based in Muscat, Oman, and Southeast Asia, based in Hanoi, Vietnam. This NOFO is specific to the Middle East/North Africa Region and includes the following countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Priorities
This funding opportunity supports CDC’s 2019-2021 Global Health Strategy, which focuses on:
- Health Impact—Saving lives, improving health outcomes, and fostering healthy populations globally
- Health Security—Protecting Americans and populations across the globe by strengthening global public health prevention, detection, and response
- Public Health Science Leadership—Leading and influencing the advancement of global public health science and practice
Funding Information
- Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $ 50,000
- Estimated Total Funding: $ 250,000
- Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)
- Expected Number of Awards: 1
- Approximate Average Award: $ 50,000 Per Budget Period
- Budget Period Length: 12 month(s)
Strategies
- Activities will include the planning, coordinating, and convening of annual strategic and other planning meetings to address an overarching theme of importance to the public health capacity of the region. Public health stakeholders in the region will communicate, coordinate, and collaborate to address regional health issues.
- Strategy 1: Conduct regional landscape analysis
- Identify public health stakeholders (ministries of health, academia, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, etc.) in each country and regionally
- Map existing partnerships between stakeholders, relevant assets (resources), and activities in each country and regionally
- Review existing regional needs assessments or conduct as necessary
- Strategy 2: Coordinate the creation of a regional public health strategy and action plans, where needed
- Convene public health stakeholders at annual meeting to discuss regional priorities and needs
- Develop a regional strategic plan in collaboration with public health stakeholders and CDC regional platform
- Strategy 3: Develop network of regional public health stakeholders
- Coordinate, and where appropriate, establish intra-regional communications between public health stakeholders
Outcomes
- As reflected in the logic model, the strategies have a related set of activities and short- and intermediate-term outcomes for the five-year period of performance. Measurable progress on these outcomes will contribute to the specified long-term outcomes.
- Applicants will assess their existing resources and technical expertise, partner network, and training resources, and determine whether they can successfully achieve the specified outcomes. Recipients are only expected to achieve those outcomes identified in the application and for which they receive funding.
- Short-Term Outcomes:
- Public health stakeholders and assets in region mapped
- National and regional action plans and policies are enacted
- Strong communications system established to ensure an effective approach to global health security
- Collaborative relationships between regional public health partners established
Target Populations
The target population includes ministries of health and public health partners in the Middle East/North Africa region and the populations they serve (countries include: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen).
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334244