CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST – SR FOR RAI3E IN VIET NAM

Viet Nam Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) is inviting competent organizations to support the implementation of Viet Nam Component of the Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative (RAI3E) Grant as a sub-recipient (SR)

VIET NAM COUNTRY COORDINATING MECHANISM

Regional Component of the Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative (RAI3E) Grant

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

1. Main objective

Viet Nam Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) is inviting competent organizations to support the implementation of Viet Nam Component of the Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative (RAI3E) Grant as a sub-recipient (SR) in the following areas:

• mobile population
• community and village health system
• private health sector.

2. Background: the RAI3-Elimination program of the Global Fund

The Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative (RAI) was launched in 2013 in response to the emergence of artemisinin resistant malaria in the Greater Mekong region. Funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, the first RAI round was a $100-million grant covering the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The grant, which ends in 2017, supported the increased coverage of impregnated nets, diagnosis and treatment, as well as case detection and surveillance, giving priority to areas of artemisinin resistance.

Global Fund approved a second phase of RAI on 2017, with a total of USD 242.3 million over three years. RAI2E is a milestone as the Global Fund’s largest regional grant with the first to have a defined goal of disease elimination in a specific geography. The majority of the grant funds have been awarded across the five countries to support their country components of the RAI2E (208.3 m USD). The main focus is on malaria case management through expansion of community health volunteers, strengthening surveillance systems, and scaling up elimination activities. In addition, US$34million has been dedicated to a regional component that supplements the country components.

The regional component aims to address overarching issues affecting national strategies, enhancing country components and ensuring regional coherence. The RAI Regional Steering Committee (RSC), a multi-stakeholder governance body, provides strategic guidance, selects recipient implementers, and oversees grant implementation track progress against program objectives and ensures funding is used in accordance with agreed strategic priorities. Engagement with and close involvement of civil society, among other constituency groups, is critical to the successful governance of the RAI program through the RSC at regional level.

Currently, the VN-CCM and Malaria PR – the National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology, are conducting the submission of the RAI3E Funding Request to the Global Fund. As for the Regional Malaria CSO platform, the five GMS countries’ malaria CSO partners with leadership from respective country steering committee members, PR UNOPS, RSC Secretariat, RAI RSC CSO representatives, and CSO platform secretariat are updating RAI3 funding request preparation and finalizing Malaria CSO platform, GMS governance structure and TOR for members and representatives.

3. Geographic Scope of Call of RAI project in Viet Nam

The RAI project in Viet Nam covers 36 malaria affected province, with estimated population of 7.5 million people. A detail list of location requires SR(s) intervention is as following:

4. Expected Grant Period

Implementation dates for the activities and budget in this grant will cover the period of January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023.

5. Expected Budget:

6. Eligibility Criteria

In order to respond to this EoI, applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:

The organization (and any partners/sub-grantees) must be legally registered to operate in the proposed project country/ies, with registration or a Memorandum of Understanding with the respective Ministry.
Conflict of Interest: The grantee’s other relationships, associations, activities, and interests should not create a conflict of interest that could prevent full impartiality in implementation of the grant activities.
Any organization that does not meet the minimum eligibility criteria will not be considered.

7. Preferred qualifications

The organization has past experience in implementation of the Global Fund Grant in any of the 5 RAI2 E countries.

8. Guidance for Expression of Interest

The application should contain the following content in Vietnamese and English:

1. Licenses
2. Detailed Activities and Budget
3. Expression of Interest

All applications should be submitted to ccmvietnam@gmail.com before the deadline. Documents can be attached by email or provided in a Google Drive/Drop Box link.

Questions can be sent to ccmvietnam@gmail.com until 24:00, 12/6/2020.

Submission deadline: 24:00, 21/6/2020, Indochina Time (GMT+7).