81282582-Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) / Health System Strengthening Projects (HSS)

Project duration: Contract Award - 30.06.2023 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 GF, Expertise France L"Initiative, FCDO and BACKUP, the contractor is expected to provide TA to the capstone projects on RSSH (sub-objective 3), which each participating country delegation will select and implement based on their country-specific priorities. Each country team will work on the capstone project throughout the life cycle of this initiative, (which is also the timeframe for the Global Fund"s NFM-3 cycle) and will apply the knowledge gained at the RSSH workshops for implementing the capstone projects. Country delegations should have the opportunity to exchange on the progress of their capstone projects during the workshops. Besides the TA-support to the above-mentioned capstone projects on RSSH the contractor is expected to provide TA-support to various additional assignments on Health System Strengthening (HSS) in close cooperation with BACKUP Health. For the assignments for the capstone project RSSH and the various HSS assignments, expertpools of international, regional and national experts may be needed. It should be noted that BACKUP Health"s modus operandi is demand-and-needs-based. Therefore, it is not specified in this ToRs the type of support each country will be requesting assistance for. Countries eligible under RSSH project for this TA-support are the participating anglophone and lusophone countries: Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Countries eligible for the additional assignments on HSS are global, however countries must be eligible for BACKUP-funding depending on demand (see annex C to the ToR).