OpportunityTitle: Lowlands Health Activity
Description: The purpose of this Activity is to improve health and nutrition outcomes by increasing access, quality, and utilization of RMNCAH-N services in pastoral geographies of Ethiopia. To achieve the IRs outlined in Section 5, the Recipient must design evidence-based, contextualized, gender- and youth-sensitive, and pragmatic approaches and interventions for pastoral areas. All applications should propose the ideal mix of interventions to improve access, quality, and utilization of RMNCAH-N services. Applicants must develop a comprehensive plan that includes cost-effective, sustainable (i.e., beyond development partner funding) interventions and put together a plan that measures the cost of each proposed intervention at district or health facility level. The Recipient must plan to engage in cost-effective analysis on proposed interventions throughout the Activity to inform its retooling of interventions towards maximum results. The Activity will also have a $1 million crisis modifier set aside and will be flexible to identify, assess, and support emergency response efforts to man-made or natural disasters, including disease outbreaks, drought, conflict, etc., that can save lives, restore/sustain health service delivery, and protect critical interventions for community health, while maintaining public health development gains. USAID&#8217;s New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) aims to diversify USAID&#8217;s partner base by creating avenues for new and underutilized partners to work with USAID. Through NPI, the Agency promotes local leadership, seeks bold and innovative approaches to fostering self-reliance, and identifies new sources of funding to sustain partnership and scale impact. As such, focus on local capacity development (structured and with milestones documenting progress), knowledge, ownership (through co-financing agreements), and sustainability (cost-effective and beyond development partner funding) is encouraged for all applications. Most importantly, USAID/Ethiopia embraces and would like to foster &#8216;out-of-the-box&#8217; thinking to meet the new, ever-evolving demands and challenges that the Activity&#8217;s pastoral areas are facing in health programming. Applicants are expected to propose solutions that meet the following parameters: o Are verified acceptable to and adopted by the community o Access and maximize local assets, knowledge, and values o Are cost-effective in attaining desired results o Have high potential for sustainability without development partner funding o Respect and leverage existing culture, religion, leadership, decision-making. and community structures o Identify use and local maintenance of appropriate technology
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Senior A&amp;A Specialist
GrantorContactText: Henok Amenu Oljira &lt;br/&gt;Senior Acquisition &amp; Assistance Specialist