Deadline: 14-Feb-22
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a Cooperative Agreement from qualified entities to improve health and HIV outcomes among key and priority populations in support of USAID/Mozambique’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) 2020-2025.
The overall objective of the activity is to “improve health and HIV outcomes among key and priority populations,” in support of USAID/Mozambique’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) 2020-2025. Specifically, this award will directly respond to CDCS Development Objective #1: “Healthier and better educated Mozambicans, especially the young and vulnerable”; with a focus on intermediate results (quality and utilization of health services improved).
The USAID HIV KPP Local Activity will be undertaken in epidemiologically priority districts, as per the guidance provided by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and in consultation with the Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM), the Mozambique Ministry of Health (MISAU), and the Mozambique National AIDS Council (CNCS). Priority districts will be reviewed and revised based on available evidence, on an annual basis, as part of the PEPFAR Country Operational Plan (COP) planning process.
Priorities
- Sex workers (SW) include men, women, and transgender men and women, age 18 and older who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, and who consciously define those activities as income generating, even if they do not consider sex work as their occupation.
- Men who have sex with men (MSM) are males who have sex with other males, regardless of whether they also have sex with women and regardless of the personal or social identity associated with that behavior, such as being ‘gay’ or ‘bisexual.’
- Transgender (TG) is an umbrella term that describes a diverse group of people whose internal sense of gender is different than that which they were assigned at birth.
- People who inject drugs (PWID) are people who inject psychotropic drugs for nonmedical reasons, via intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, or any other injection form.
- People in prisons or other closed settings are all men and women detained in prisons or other closed settings, including detention centers. The term prisoner refers to all persons detained in the criminal justice system and prison infrastructures, including adults and young people, men and women, during the investigation of a crime, while awaiting court procedures, after condemnation, and before and after sentencing.
Funding Information
USAID intends to provide approximately $35,000,000.00 (thirty-five million dollars) in total USAID funding over a five (5) year period.
Eligibility Criteria
For the purpose of this section, local entity means an individual, a corporation, a nonprofit organization, or another body of persons that:
- is legally organized under the laws of Mozambique;
- has as its principal place of business or operations in;
- is majority owned by individuals who are citizens or lawful permanent residents of; and
- managed by a governing body, the majority of who are citizens or lawful permanent residents of a country receiving assistance from funds appropriated under title III of this Act.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337356