Procurement

Activities in USAID/Mozambique are implemented through contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements with American, Mozambican and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and contractors through several basic instruments:

Contracts

• Contracts are used when the principal purpose is to acquire supplies or services for the direct benefit or use of USAID or any other Federal government entity; or
• USAID determines in a specific instance that the use of a contract is appropriate; and
• USAID plans to exercise a substantial degree of operational control.

Cooperative Agreements

• Cooperative agreements are used when the principal purpose is the transfer of money, supplies, services or anything of value to the recipient in order to accomplish a public purpose of support; and
• Substantial involvement is anticipated between USAID and the recipient during implementation of the activity.

• Grants are used when the principal purpose is the transfer of money, supplies, services or anything of value to the recipient in order to pursue its stated program, and;
• Substantial involvement is not anticipated between USAID and the recipient during implementation of the activity.

NEW FY 2009 RFA for CSHGP

Fiscal Year 2009 Child Survival and Health Grants (CSHGP) Request for Applications (RFA). The FY 2009 RFA for CSHGP focuses on innovation in delivery strategies for high impact maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) interventions. This focus continues to strengthen a major shift in the program and in the criteria for selecting grantees and is closely aligned with the USAID Global Health Bureau’s mandate for innovation and technical leadership. In addition, the RFA is seeking to attract new partners to contribute to innovation and expand and improve the capacity of partners to contribute to the Stop Tuberculosis (TB) strategy interventions in targeted countries to meet global TB targets. Applicants must submit applications to USAID/Washington by February 17, 2009 and to the appropriate USAID Mission by February 24, 2009.  Please see Funding Opportunity USAID-M-OAA-GH-09-298 on www.grants.gov for additional information.

New Annual Program Statement (APS) for the Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program

The Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program is pleased to announce the posting of a Global Annual Program Statement (APS) soliciting applications from eligible organizations to conduct Neglected Tropical Disease Control Programs.

Grantees under the Program must work in direct partnership with APS-identified eligible country governments and all potential grantees are required to obtain concurrence from the Mission or Regional Office (in the case of non-presence countries) in order to have a successful application.
Eligible countries include : Angola, Benin, Cameroun, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Congo,  Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic Cote d’Ivoire,  Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Lao (PDR), Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Landa, Vietnam, Yemen, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico. Countries already included in the Program are not eligible, including Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Uganda, Haiti, Sierra Leone, S. Sudan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
The NTD website http://ntd.rti.org  contains all information and documents relevant to this APS.

If for some reason you cannot download the APS documents please write for assistance to askNTD@rti.org.  All questions related to the APS must be submitted in writing to askNTD@rti.org.

We look forward to hearing from you and to taking on this excellent challenge.

Background
In response to a Congressional earmark in, the GH bureau created a flagship project to address neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that was subsequently awarded to RTI in September 2006.  Now in its third year of implementation, USAID’s NTD Control Project is making a large-scale, cost-effective contribution to the global effort to reduce the economic and epidemiological burden of the 7 neglected diseases (lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, 3 intestinal worms and trachoma) that can be targeted through integrated mass drug administration. This is the first global effort to support country programs in integrating and scaling up delivery of preventive chemotherapy for these seven targeted NTDs.