The United States Government, represented by the Office of Health Systems in the Bureau for Global Health (GH) within the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), invites interested Applicant(s) to submit Concept Paper(s) that incorporate interventions that will build upon and expand USAID’s efforts to strengthen families through investments in programs to build family and community resilience.

Under the Investing in Resilient Families and Communities Round, USAID/GH is seeking Concept Papers that incorporate interventions that will build upon and expand USAID’s efforts to strengthen the resilience of disadvantaged families, increase families’ and communities’ ability to mitigate, adapt to and recover from potential external shocks and stressors, and increase the capacity of existing health institutions to provide care to families in developing countries including those in hard to reach areas.

USAID encourages local and global partnerships with the private sector and civil society, including faith-based and community-based organizations, and in particular new and underutilized partners, capable of deploying (or integrating) activities and innovations to enhance family resilience, to submit concept papers. Such activities and innovations could, for example, include education, training, mentoring, support, technology, health supplies and commodities, equipment and products which could serve as tools to accomplish the following:

• Build resilience through supporting families to achieve the healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy;
• Build resilience through strengthened relationships between married and unmarried couples for better health outcomes;
• Build resilience through enabling families to take ownership of their own health and reduce their vulnerability; and,
• Increase the capacity of public and private health networks to serve them.

Funding Information

Subject to the availability of funds, USAID anticipates making multiple awards, which will not exceed a cumulative ceiling of $100,000,000.00.

Expected Results

The overall goal for the Investing in Resilient Families and Communities Round is to help build family resilience in developing countries.

The award(s) under Investing in Resilient Families and Communities Round will contribute to one or more of the below results. Applicants should identify the results that are most relevant to their proposed intervention(s):

• Result 1: Families’ increased resilience promotes the healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy (HTSP)
• Result 2: Improved couples’ communication promotes increased resilience and improved health outcomes.
• Result 3: Family resilience increases through improved communication between parents or caregivers, and children, minor adolescents, and adolescents who have reached the age of majority, by using a three-generation model to help children, minor adolescents and adolescents who have reached the age of majority to thrive into adulthood
• Result 4: Family resilience increases through decreasing vulnerability, and supporting those in situations of vulnerability
• Result 5: Families are empowered to take ownership of their own health and increase their resilience
• Result 6: Families participate in strengthening local health networks to serve families’ needs, as well as those of the community, and to better support such networks.

Eligibility Criteria

U.S. and non-U.S. public, private, for-profit, and non-profit organizations, as well as institutions of higher education, public international organizations, and non-governmental organizations, are eligible to submit a Concept Paper under this Partnering for Resilient Families and Communities Round Addendum. Furthermore, the organization must be a legally-recognized, organizational entity under applicable law, legally registered in countries where USAID has existing operations, but excluding any country that is a prohibited source.

Geographic Focus

Award(s) will have a geographic focus in one or more USAID presence country(ies), including Bangladesh; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Central African Republic; Congo; Côte d’Ivoire; Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Ethiopia; Guinea; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Nepal; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; South Sudan; Tanzania; Togo and Uganda. Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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