Call for Proposals (CFP), Provide implementation support to malaria endemic countries

Deadline on: 05-April-2021 23:59 (GMT 1.00) Western Europe Time, London, Lisbon, Casablanca 

The RBM Partnership/Country and Regional Support Partner Committee (CRSPC) is seeking a grantee to support its in-country support to malaria endemic countries as part of its technical assistance plan in 2021, on a number of its major activities such as support to the Zero Malaria Starts with Me campaigns and rollout, ensure access to malaria interventions through identifying barriers related to community, rights and gender, develop national malaria strategic plans and Global Fund funding applications. 

Objectives of the Grant:

The purpose of this grant is to:

  1. Provide support to Zimbabwe, Burundi and DRC Ministries of Health in-country activities in the process of launching and rolling out of their ZMSWM campaigns.
  2. Provide in-country support to Rwanda and Zimbabwe Ministries of Health in rolling out of the use of Malaria Matchbox in order to identify barriers to access to malaria interventions.
  3. Provide support to in-country consultation meetings to Mauritania in the process of development of malaria NSP and high-quality malaria GF funding applications to the GF for the 2020-2022 funding cycle. 
  4. Provide in-country support to Burundi to develop domestic resource mobilization plan.

Specific activities to be funded includes:

The successful grantee will be involved in supporting in-country consultations and/or activities for the RBM Partnership, working closely with the CRSPC and other RBM Partner Committees. The specific activities to be supported includes the following:  

  1. Zero Malaria Starts with Me (ZMSWM) campaign launching and roll out (Zimbabwe, DRC, Burundi)
    • Recruit national consultant (DRC)
    • Stakeholder consultative meeting to set objectives, targets, strategies and key messages for the launch
    • Development and printing of campaign materials
    • High level engagement with government leadership
    • Launching the Campaign
    • Working with the media and public relations to create a social media platform to promote the campaign
    • Develop roll out plans
  2. Roll out Malaria Matchbox (Rwanda and Zimbabwe):
    • In-country consultation meetings (Rwanda)
    • Printing of tools and documents (Rwanda)
    • Recruit national consultant who support the coordination activities
  3. Support the process to develop the NSP and GF applications (Mauritania)
    • In-country stakeholder consultation meetings
    • Workshop to develop the GF funding application
  4. Develop plan for domestic resource mobilization (Burundi)
    • Recruit national consultant who will coordinate the development of the plan
    • In-country stakeholder consultation to develop the plan

For all these activities, the successful grantee will be requested to procure, contract and administer internal transportation and travel per-diems, and workshop and mission arrangements. This must be done in close collaboration with the national stakeholders (relevant NMCP and others) as well as the RBM Partnership Secretariat, in order to meet country expectations. The grantee will be expected to attend the events and provide on-site support.

Deliverables:

The applicant is expected to provide the following final deliverables: 

    • Regular coordination with RBM Secretariat in planning of the support.
    • Report of each of the activities indicated above

Final narrative and financial report upon completion of the activities.

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