Deadline: 15-Mar-23
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a Cooperative Agreement from qualified entities to implement Enhancing Nutrition Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning in the Health Sector (NuMERAL).
Objective: To support and promote the collaborative generation and use of evidence in human nutrition and local capacity strengthening for nutrition monitoring, evaluation, research, research utilization, and learning in the health sector.
Focus Areas
- Mainstream nutrition in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) policies and services
- Link components of nurturing care with a focus on integrating responsive caregiving and opportunities for early learning into nutrition policies and programs
- Improve assessment of micronutrient deficiencies and anemia to inform targeted interventions to prevent and overcome these conditions
Strategic Approaches
- Support local research partners’ leadership and strategic partnerships in evidence generation, dissemination, translation, and use
- Strengthen and build the evidence base for implementation of effective, feasible, equitable, and cost-efficient nutrition services in the health sector
- Translate evidence for learning, cross-country sharing, and utilization by national and subnational stakeholders of nutrition policies and programs
- Optimize monitoring, evaluation, and information systems in nutrition
Funding Information
USAID intends to award one Cooperative Agreement pursuant to this notice of funding opportunity. Subject to funding availability and at the discretion of the Agency, USAID intends to provide $45 million in total USAID funding over a five-year period.
Geographic Focus
This activity will work at the global level with efforts directed primarily to USAID’s fourteen Nutrition Priority Countries and four Nutrition Strategic Support Countries. Investments in monitoring, evaluation, and research on nutrition in these countries, with a focus on learning and local engagement, allow USAID to work strategically within the health sector to achieve optimal nutrition outcomes. While field work under this activity will prioritize Nutrition Priority Countries, it may include other countries if USAID supports nutrition in health systems work in such countries. The applicant should consider tradeoffs between looking across different development contexts and focusing on cases where conditions are similar, keeping in mind that an objective of this activity is to produce both generalizable and policy/decision-maker relevant learning, if appropriate.
Eligible Countries
Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Haiti, Guatemala, Tajikistan, Zambia
Eligibility Criteria
- USAID welcomes concept notes from organizations that have not previously received financial assistance from USAID.
- USAID welcomes concept notes from local organizations. 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; and
- Has as its principal place of business or operations in; and
- 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 the country receiving assistance.
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