USAID’s Adolescent Reproductive Health Activity

Deadline: 9-Nov-21

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Nepal is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the USAID’s Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) Activity.

The purpose of Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) is to empower adolescents to reach their full capacity by choosing and practicing healthy reproductive behaviors. This will be achieved by expanding the demand, supply, and use of quality, adolescent-responsive reproductive health (RH) services and products across selected municipalities in Nepal through a systems strengthening approach.

Goals

The overarching goal of USAID/Nepal’s Health Office (HO) is to foster a healthy, resilient, well-nourished population, leading to increased human capital. The goal of the ARH Activity is to support adolescents to reach their full potential by; ensuring they receive correct and appropriate RH information and guidance to develop decision-making skills, creating an environment conducive to making healthy reproductive health decisions and facilitating translation of these decisions into healthy behaviors.

Objectives

The objectives of the ARH Activity are:

To provide accurate, relevant Family Planning/Reproductive Health (FP/RH) information and behavior change support to adolescents; and educate their parents, teachers, and communities, addressing current social norms; to facilitate healthy reproductive health decisions and adoption of healthy behaviors by adolescents.
To improve availability and accessibility of quality FP/RH services for adolescents by identifying and addressing key gaps in current services and in systems that determine effective access and utilization of adolescent-friendly services and products.
To institutionalize successful data-driven approaches and mechanisms addressing adolescent reproductive health through the public and private sectors.

Funding Information

USAID intends to award one (1) cooperative agreement pursuant to this notice of funding opportunity. Subject to funding availability and at the discretion of the Agency, USAID intends to provide $35 million (M) in total USAID funding over a five (5) year period.

Eligibility Criteria

All qualified potential Applicants are eligible to apply. USAID seeks to make awards to a U.S. or non-U.S. non-governmental organization (NGO) or a private, non-profit organization (or a forprofit company willing to forego profits) that has concrete assets for strengthening equitable and quality service delivery within national and local policies and implementation plans, access to services, and sustainability of the program. This includes a strong track record in implementation, monitoring & evaluation (M&E), local capacity building with a focus on learning and use of data for decision-making, and credibility in policy engagement processes. Since USAID aims to work with experienced organizations to focus on and build local and community capacity, it will not provide separate technical assistance to partners. Any anticipated technical assistance needs (i.e., for M&E, knowledge management, etc.) must be built into activity design. In the case of a consortium, the Applicant must be the consortium lead and must identify any other members of the consortium or individuals tied to the implementation of the activity as described in the application, along with all sub-awardees. The respective roles of any other members of the consortium or individuals, including all sub-awardees, must be described and separate budgets must be attached for each. USAID welcomes applications from organizations that have not previously received financial assistance from USAID.
To be eligible for a Cooperative Agreement, an organization must be any of the following types of organizations:
- U.S. and Non-U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
  - U.S. and Non-U.S. Non-Profit Organizations
  - U.S. and non-U.S. private non-profit organizations may apply for funding.
  - U.S. and Non-U.S. For-Profit Organizations
- U.S. and Non-U.S. Colleges and Universities
- Public International Organizations

For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335889