Deadline: 15-Sep-22
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications from qualified entities to implement the Local Entities Advancing and Driving Health Responses (LEADR) activity.
The goal of the LEADR activity is to support the GOL to deliver high-quality integrated prevention, care and treatment services that will sustain the reduction in HIV, TB, and COVID-19 transmission, morbidity, and mortality in Lesotho through the implementation of a comprehensive, person-centered services in Butha-Buthe and Mokhotlong districts. By the end of the award, a successful applicant should achieve the following results:
- Result 1: Increased coverage of high-quality evidence-informed comprehensive and peoplecentered HIV and TB prevention, diagnosis, care, and treatment services.
- Result 2: Increased access and uptake of quality COVID-19 prevention, detection, vaccination, and clinical service delivery.
- Result 3: Strengthened district and community health systems using a primary health care approach to sustain epidemic control of HIV, TB, and other infectious diseases beyond activity implementation.
Funding Information
Subject to funding availability and at the discretion of the Agency, USAID intends to provide an estimated $15,000,000.00 in total USAID funding over a five-year period, including $8,500,000 for the initial period of performance.
Geographic Focus
- The LEADR activity will be implemented in Butha Buthe and Mokhotlong districts of Lesotho. USAID desires to support an activity which provides technical assistance and direct service delivery support at facility and community levels to increase access to quality and comprehensive prevention, diagnostic, care, and treatment continuum of care.
- The successful applicant must collaborate with existing USAID PEPFAR implementing partners to effectively transition activities. Some of these partners include the Expanding Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Clinical Services (ETHICS) and USAID/Providing Universal Services (PUSH) projects to ensure continuity of prevention and treatment services and handover of technical and programmatic support to the target districts in concert with Ministry of Health (MOH), USAID, and other key HIV/AIDS, TB, and COVID-19 partners and stakeholders.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individual: An individual must be a citizen or lawfully admitted permanent resident of and have his/her principal place of business in the country or region served by the PEPFAR program with which the individual is or may become involved, and a sole proprietorship must be owned by such an individual.
- Entity other than a sole proprietorship (such as, a corporation or not-for-profit) must meet all three areas of eligibility:
- must be incorporated or legally organized under the laws of, and have its principal place of business in the country served by the PEPFAR program with which the entity is involved
- must exist in the region where the entity’s funded PEPFAR programs are implemented
- must be at 75% beneficially owned at the time of application by individuals who are citizens or lawfully admitted permanent residents of that same country
- at least 75% of the entity’s staff (senior, mid-level, support) at the time of application must be citizens or lawfully admitted permanent residents of that same country
- where an entity has a Board of Directors, at least 51% of the members of the Board must also be citizens or lawfully admitted permanent residents of such country.
- USAID/Southern Africa welcomes applications from organizations that have not previously received financial assistance from USAID. Applicants who do not currently meet all USAID requirements for systems and controls may still be eligible under special award considerations and should not be discouraged from applying.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343129
