USAID-Lilongwe announces Leveraging Local Capacity to Strengthen Health Service Delivery Project

Deadline: 30 September 2019

This Annual Program Statement (APS) has announced the opportunities for local organizations or institutions in Malawi to work with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Malawi.

Specifically, this APS is designed to describe and provide a process through which local organizations can work with USAID/Malawi to strengthen the delivery of health services through creative, innovative, and effective interventions to address key priority challenges in health, including Human Resources for Health (HRH); HIV, malaria; and Innovative methods to enhance health service delivery and improve health behaviors.

Goals

The goal of this APS is to contribute to the Agency’s strategic priorities:

Preventing child and maternal deaths.
Combating infectious diseases.
achieving HIV epidemic control in Malawi while advancing Malawi’s journey to self-reliance through local partner engagement in implementation of health and social welfare programming.

Purpose

This APS is designed specifically to provide opportunities for local organizations in Malawi to work with USAID in Malawi to strengthen health care delivery through creative, innovative, and effective interventions. All offerors must be local organizations to be eligible for an award through this APS and will be encouraged to carefully demonstrate their ability to partner effectively with other institutional partners.

Desired Outcomes

Increased number of skilled health workers and para-professionals graduating from training institutions, entering and being retained in the health and social welfare workforce;
Improved quality of pre-service education and increased access to educational opportunities for health workers;
Improved HIV, Malaria, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH), Family Planning, and Nutrition and outcomes in high disease burden districts; and
Improved capacity of local organizations to implement effective health programs in Malawi.

Funding Information