Unitaid Call for Proposals: Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention

Unitaid is pleased to announce this Call for Proposals aimed at catalyzing uptake of country-led and context-specific post-discharge malaria chemoprevention strategies.

Eligibility criteria:

Under this Call, Unitaid is soliciting proposals for the following intervention, aimed at accelerating implementation and generating evidence to catalyse the adoption and scale-up of PDMC to address the burden of childhood anaemia and malaria:

• Multi-country implementation of PDMC with robust evidence generation that responds to key knowledge gaps to inform future guidance and accelerate uptake. 
• Projects should include implementation projects, delivered in diverse representative settings, to generate robust, transferable evidence on the impact, operationalization, and cost/cost-effectiveness of PDMC delivery – with a vision to informing national scale-up.
• Proponents should clearly describe their overall project design with a Theory of Change, showing how it meets the objectives of the initiative and how the proposed activities form part of a coherent whole. Proposals should explicitly state what impact will be achieved within the project lifetime, as well as what, and how, lasting impact will be achieved.
•  Proponents should clarify the key stakeholders with whom they will engage, and how this will be achieved. It is important to include a country engagement model that outlines coordination and cooperation with countries in decision making around tailoring the design of elimination programs, monitoring introduction, and assessing impact.
• By actively involving government stakeholders in all phases of planning and implementation, projects will gain valuable insights into local contexts, policy frameworks, and stakeholder priorities. This collaboration will lead to more informed and effective project design, increased buy-in from government partners, and greater sustainability of project outcomes beyond the grant funding period.
• Single-country interventions are out of scope for this Call for Proposals.

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Application deadline November 4, 2024 (noon CET).