Deadline: 14-Jun-21
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a fixed amount award cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Community Led Monitoring Activity in the Kyrgyz Republic
Objectives
The objective of the Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Activity is to conduct systematic and routine monitoring of facility and community service delivery sites that receive US Government President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) investments and establish community driven rapid feedback loops to improve health service delivery and outcomes.
The community led monitoring activity will be expected to act in a subset of PEPFAR sites in Bishkek City, Chui Oblast and will be expanded to Osh City, and/or Osh Oblast in FY 22 if PEPFAR funding is available.
A total of six (four community and two facility) community-led monitoring visits and follow-up advocacy and action sessions will be conducted in FY21 in Bishkek and Chui Oblasts.
Targets for subsequent fiscal years will be negotiated as part of the work planning process.
The objective of the Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Activity is to conduct routine monitoring that will target communities who are beneficiaries of USG PEPFAR investments. Specifically, the CLM Activity shall, on a routine basis:
- Facilitate a community-led approach to assessing the quality of services received and the satisfaction level of clients/beneficiaries with these services
- Create pathways for translating assessment findings into a follow-up action plan
- Deploy this action plan in order to encourage health service providers to improve the quality and satisfactoriness of their services.
Funding Information
- USAID intends to award one Fixed Amount Cooperative Agreement pursuant to this notice of funding opportunity. Subject to funding availability and at the discretion of the Agency, USAID intends to provide $160,000 in total USAID funding, over a three-year period.
- The anticipated period of performance is three years. The estimated start date will be October 1, 2021.
Geographic Focus
- Beneficiaries will be located in a subset of health facility catchment areas (to be determined by USAID in consultation with the activity as part of the work planning process) within the PEPFAR target oblasts of Bishkek, Chui, Osh City, and Osh.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility for this NOFO is restricted to local organizations.
- The registered non-commercial, non-governmental civil society organizations (e.g. public foundations, public associations and associations of legal entities) in Kyrgyz Republic are eligible to apply. Alternatively, applicants must demonstrate the ability to quickly apply for registration in the Kyrgyz Republic in accordance with the laws and decrees in the Kyrgyz Republic. These organizations cannot be current recipients of PEPFAR funding.
- Only local organizations as defined below are eligible for award. USAID defines a “local entity” as an individual, a corporation, a nonprofit organization, or another body of persons that:
- Is legally organized under the laws of the Kyrgyz Republic; and
- Has as its principal place of business or operations in the Kyrgyz Republic; and
- Is majority owned by individuals who are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the Kyrgyz Republic; and
- Is managed by a governing body the majority of who are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the Kyrgyz Republic.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333497