Deadline: 13-Sep-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is pleased to announce Global Fund financed HIV and TB Grant Programme to support the national and regional efforts across 11 Pacific islands countries (PICs) (Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia Federated States Of, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga,Tuvalu and Vanuatu) 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.
Objectives
The objective of this Call for Proposals is to hire two Regional CSOs/NGOs as Sub-Recipients for the HIV component of the GF grant (2021-2023) to implement the modules on:
- Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH): Community Systems Strengthening (CSS Module) that include intervention on Strengthening Institutional/Organizational Capacity; building community linkages and coordination and management of the grant within the established budget.(the Project). The successful SRs will support the implementation of the RSSH-CSS module amongst thirteen (13) CSOs3 in the eight (8) Pacific Island countries;
- Treatment, care and support (Technical/programmatic capacity strengthening (PLHIV Support)) that include intervention on Counseling and psycho-social support to PLHIV in the 11 countries with peer mentoring in support of ART adherence, as well as other support activities aimed to achieving the 95-95-95 targets, breaking social and legal barriers and scale up realization of human rights and gender equity and Reducing human rights-related barriers to HIV/TB services within the established budget.
- 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.
Funding Information
- Strengthening Institutional/Organizational Capacity (CSO Support): USD 100,000; and
- Technical/programmatic capacity strengthening (PLHIV Support): USD 135,000;
- 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 2021 – 2023
Eligibility Criteria
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.
- 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 communitybased 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.
Note The parameters that will determine whether a Regional CSO/NGO is eligible to be considered by UNDP will be based on the CSO/NGO Request for Information (RFI)
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=82350