Deadline: 10-Feb-2025
The Madagascar USAID-Antananarivo has launched the Surveillance, Operational Research, and Optimization of Knowledge- sharing for Action (SOROKA) Activity.
Goals and Objectives
- The activity goal is to advance the health of the Malagasy people through improvements in capacity building for and coordination and execution of data collection, management, synthesis and use for public health action. This goal will be met through accomplishing four specific objectives:
- Improve national surveillance capacity to rapidly and accurately detect outbreaks and priority health threats
- Improve national capacity (human and organizational) to plan, implement and disseminate research and evaluations
- Increase public sector capacity to use epidemiologic and laboratory data for public health action.
- As a cross-cutting objective, the fourth objective is to sustainably improve human resource and institutional technical capacity for the surveillance of malaria and other conditions linked to global health security, maternal and child health, and WASH.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 7,500,000
- Award Ceiling: $7,500,000
- Award Floor: $5,000,000
Duration
- The anticipated period of performance is five (5) years. The estimated start date is March 17, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility is restricted to Local entities and organizations that have received less than $25 million in USAID funding, at any tier, over the past five years; or for global health awards the organization has received less than $25 million in U.S. Government funding at any tier, over the past five years.
- local entity means an individual, a corporation, a nonprofit organization, or another body of persons that—
- is legally organized under the laws of;
- has as its principal place of business or operations in; and
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