81282580-Global Fund Funding Request and Re-programming Support

Project duration: Contract award until 31.08.2023 BACKUP Health is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), by Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) since 2013 as well as by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and Expertise France since 2020. It is implemented by the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. As of April 2020, BACKUP Health started a new project module that runs until August 2023. The project supports capacity development of state and non-state actors in selected partner countries to leverage funding from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF/GFATM) and other global financing mechanisms, such as the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and the Global Financing Facility (GFF), in order to strengthen the country"s health systems and provide integrated preventive and curative health services. Through Providing for Health (P4H), BACKUP Health supports countries in improving strategic conditions for implementing health financing reforms. Furthermore, the project just started providing support on improving the framework conditions for vaccine production on the African continent. With this tender of lots, BACKUP Health calls for assistance in the swift formulation and/or management of technical assistance (TA) assignments in countries eligible to BACKUP Health support. This tender of lots comprises of the following two lots: Lot 1: Global Fund Funding Request and Re-programming Support Under this lot, the contractor"s overall objective is to assist BACKUP Health in the provision of support to eligible countries through the timely deployment and management of international experts. Deployed experts shall support the development of a technically sound and successful GF funding request or re-programming application for one or several of the following (non-) disease-specific grants and catalytic investments: HIV, TB, Malaria, combined grants, RSSH, C19RM, regional grants, Matching Funds Request, Strategic Initiatives, PAAR (Prioritised Above Allocation Request).