81269334 — Capacity Building for Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH)

Capacity Building for Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) Project duration: Contract Award — 31 March 2023 On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the GIZ Project BACKUP Health supports better implementation of programmes financed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). The project helps to ensure that grants are used in an efficient manner that focuses on target groups and strengthens the health system. In this way, it boosts the effectiveness and sustainability of the funded measures. At the same time it increases the contribution of the GFATM to achieving strong, adaptable and sustainable health systems and also offers greater protection against diseases and outbreaks of epidemics. BACKUP Health work thus reflects the current GF strategy 2017-2022, which includes the strategic objective (SO2) ‘Building Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health’ (RSSH) that aims at integrating health system strengthening measures into the funding requests of the partner countries. In collaboration with the GFATM, Expertise France L'Initiative and FCDO, BACKUP Health has launched a new initiative that aims at improving the impact of the GF's Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) investments on HIV, TB, malaria and other primary healthcare services by strengthening country stakeholders' technical, programmatic and operational capacities in RSSH. For developing a sustainable impact, ensuring continuous training and enabling cross-border knowledge exchange, this initiative will establish North-South partnerships with two academic institutions in anglophone and francophone Africa and initiate a South-South learning approach in the regional trainings. In close cooperation with the GFATM, Expertise France L'Initiative, FCDO and BACKUP, the contractor is expected to further develop the training material and technical content for 4 thematic workshops on key RSSH topics in such a way that they are applicable to country specific contexts (both in French and English). The contractor will also be responsible for convening country specific workshops on RSSH and regional capacity building workshops on key RSSH topics for country stakeholders. The tender is looking for an academic institution that has a track-record of collaborating with academic institutions across anglophone and francophone Africa, in order to utilize such an established network of cooperation for starting to build regional RSSH capacity building hubs. The contractor will be expected to not only closely coordinate with BACKUP Health, but all partners of the joint initiative (GFATM, Expertise France l'Initiative, FCDO) as well as consult with the Technical Advisory Group set up as part of the initiative.