Deadline: 20-Oct-22
UNDP is seeking submissions from qualified community-based organizations (CBOs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Pakistan to participate in the implementation of the grant as Sub-Recipients (SRs).
This Call for Proposals (CFP) is specifically related to the HIV prevention and Care/ support modules of the GF HIV Grant for the implementation period 2022-2023.
Goals
- The Global Fund’s funding will contribute to the achievement of the overall, strategic goals of the Pakistan AIDS Strategy IV – PAS-IV on reaching low prevention and testing coverage among key populations by:
- Scaling up community-based interventions;
- Addressing low prevention and testing coverage among KP by scaling up community-based interventions
- Addressing barriers to treatment access and initiation by phased introduction of treatment for all, devolving treatment maintenance services and stigma and discrimination training for health care workers
- Strengthening the national M&E system to improve cascade monitoring.
Objectives
- The objective of this Call for Proposals is to engage CBOs and/ or NGOs as Sub-Recipients (SRs) for the HIV prevention component of the GF grant (2021-2023) to:
- Implement prevention activities, including interventions around outreach, identification and referral, awareness and behavior change, lost to follow up and pre-exposure prophylaxis, and promoting condom use and HIV self-testing;
- Engage in community empowerment, community led advocacy and research;
- Build community linkages and coordination and.
- Engage in the management of the grant as indicated.
Specific Objectives
- Increasing coverage of the prevention services for MSM by 39% (of Population Size Estimates -PSE) by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.
- Increasing coverage of the prevention services for FSW (of PSE) by 44% by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.
- Increasing coverage of the prevention services for TG (of PSE) by 56% by 2023 from the 2019 baseline; and
- Increasing coverage of the treatment services for PLHIV by 35% (of the estimated PLHIV) by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.
Scope of Work and Responsibilities
- For the Global Fund funded HIV grant, provision has been made in the implementation arrangement for dedicated CBOs/NGOs SRs to manage and implement the prevention activities.
- The selected CBOs and NGOs will implement a range of community outreach activities across the country for identification, awareness, referral, and advocacy. The SRs will work in the communities to engage in advocacy, promote an uptake of services, increase treatment literacy and adherence to treatment as well as serve as watchdogs in the communities.
- UNDP will continue to strengthen the capacities of the CBOs/ NGOs, to enable them to contribute meaningfully to the implementation of the HIV response and to sustain outcomes.
- The selected SRs will play a key role in establishing and strengthening linkages between communities and mainstream service providers and the public sector. Overall, the configuration of the implementation arrangements will enable CBOs and NGOs to contribute to sustaining the overall program outcomes.
Funding Information
- This Global Fund HIV grant will provide the amount of US$ 47,104,249 to support Pakistan’s HIV response.
Activities
- The successful SRs will each implement the following specific interventions in proposed districts as indicated under the budget amount for programmatic activities:
- Increasing the uptake of HIV testing and prevention services including linkages to HIV testing services and the promotion of HIV self-testing, PrEP, and STI treatment
- Ensuring HIV treatment adherence
- Ensuring re-engagement of those who are Lost to Follow up.
Final Beneficiaries and Targets
- This CFP covers Pakistan while the selected entities will implement the project in the targeted districts for which they have applied and are selected. Each community-based organization (CBO)/ Non-governmental organization (NGO) will be required to clearly mention the location and key population they are applying for.
Duration of the Work
- The Project is proposed to be implemented from 01 January to 31 December 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Eligibility for NGO/ CBO shall be assessed on their technical capacity (Section VII – Evaluation Criteria and Methodology) and based upon the Request for Information and Capacity Assessment checklist attached with this call for proposal (Annex-VI&VII – RFI and CACHE). All questions must be answered clearly and directly.
- Extraneous information that is not directly respond to the question will only constraint the ability of UNDP to positively assess the CBO/ NGO alignment with mentioned UNDP requirements. Interested registered CBOs/ NGOs meeting the following criteria will be eligible for the selection:
- Proof of Officially valid registration in Pakistan (applications to be accompanied by proof of registration with relevant authorities specifying the authority to operate in proposed geographical locations).
- Proof of minimum 2 years relevant experience at least in the field of HIV, Disease and Prevention, Public health and experience around outreach, identification and referral, awareness and behavior change,; community empowerment; community led advocacy and research; building community linkages and coordination and management
- Proof of experience of working with the key populations being proposed in the application i.e. MSMs/ MSWs, TG/TG-SWs & FSWs.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=95923