L’Initiative Request for Proposal: Strengthening health systems at all levels (community to national)

This call for proposals “Strengthening health systems at all levels (community to national)” launched by L’Initiative is intended to complement investments made by the Global Fund and will finance projects that meet four of the seven objectives under pillar two of the Global Fund strategy (2017-2022) “to build resilient and sustainable systems for health”:

• Structural and sustainable improvements to health product management and supply systems.
• Sustainably strengthen the knowledge, skills and practices of human resources for health to meet the needs of populations and health systems.
• Alignment of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria control programs with sexual and reproductive health, maternal, child and adolescent health programs.
• Promoting and strengthening community systems and the involvement of communities in national decision-making processes.

This call for proposals will select projects that complement and / or support Global Fund investments, contributing to building or strengthening a system that is gender-sensitive and enables populations to access quality services, particularly in response to the three pandemics. Projects must be catalytic – i.e. they should be capable of changing practices and / or policies. 

Projects must be catalytic – i.e. they should trigger evolutions of practices and / or policies, must be between 24 and 48 months and the total grant amount from L’Initiative must cover at least 50% of the project budget and be between €500,000 and €3,000,000.

Types of Eligible Projects:

1. Projects to strengthen the capacity of national or regional actors, including community actors.
2. Projects to strengthen national procurement and supply management (PSM) systems for medicines and health products as well as strengthening pharmaceutical governance.
3. Projects to align HIV, tuberculosis and malaria control programs with sexual and reproductive health, maternal, child and adolescent health programs and integrated service delivery platforms at all levels of the health system, including the community level.
4. Projects to strengthen laboratory networks.

Read more here. 

Proposals deadline January 24, 2022.