OpportunityTitle: Tanzania Police and Prisons
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This call is exclusively for local Tanzanian partners, defined as organizations which:    &#8226; are incorporated or legally organized under the laws of, and have its principal place of business in Tanzania;  &#8226; are at 75% beneficially owned by individuals who are citizens or lawfully admitted residents of Tanzania;  &#8226; are at least 75% of its staff (senior, mid-level, support) must be citizens or lawfully admitted residents of Tanzania; and    &#8226; when an entity has a Board of Directors, at least 51% of the members of its Board must be citizens or lawfully admitted permanent residents of Tanzania.
Description: In collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Tanzania is seeking a local partner to implement a Comprehensive HIV activity in the Police and Prisons facilities. The goal of this activity is to reduce HIV, and tuberculosis (TB) transmission through detection, care, and treatment of people living with HIV and TB in police and prison settings. This includes servicemen and women in the uniformed forces, their dependents, civilians living in the vicinity and prisoners.  The recipient of the activity will provide technical support to strengthen interventions that include HIV prevention, high-yield HIV testing services (HTS); elimination of mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT); adult and pediatric treatment, care, and support; and HIV/tuberculosis (HIV/TB) care for co-infected patients in mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.  Additionally, the activity will build the capacity of health care providers within the police and prison facilities, provide technical assistance (TA) to health facility staff on data analysis, quality management, monitoring and evaluation, patient retention and linkage to continuum of care, and the promotion of HIV risk - reduction behaviors among servicemen and women, community members living within their vicinity, and prisoners.  Geographic Location: National in the central prison and police facilities (to be determined in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs)   This call is exclusively for local Tanzanian partners, defined as organizations which:     &#183;  are incorporated or legally organized under the laws of, and have its principal place of business in Tanzania;   &#183;  are at 75% beneficially owned by individuals who are citizens or lawfully admitted residents of Tanzania;   &#183;  are at least 75% of its staff (senior, mid-level, support) must be citizens or lawfully admitted residents of Tanzania; and    &#183;  when an entity has a Board of Directors, at least 51% of the members of its Board must be citizens or lawfully admitted permanent residents of Tanzania.         Submit a document of up to 5 pages (inclusive of annexes) that describes:   1. 1.  Your experience working with uniformed forces including on clinical issues   2. 2.  Your experience providing technical assistance and capacity building  to Government of Tanzania entities including the uniformed forces   3. 3. Your experience implementing HIV prevention, testing and counseling, care and treatment, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), and TB &amp; HIV collaboration      Email your feedback to usaidtzco@usaid.gov with the subject &#8220;Police and Prisons- Sources Sought Notice&#8221; not later than 0700 East Africa Time Tuesday, January 15, 2019.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: A&amp;A Specialist