Strengthening Urban Health Services and Models of Care in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA)- Uganda under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Background
The Strengthening Urban Health Services and Models of Care in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA)- Uganda under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a funding opportunity provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support strategies aimed at strengthening urban health services and models of care in Kampala, Uganda. The goal of the grant is to improve coordination, partnerships, governance, and human resource capacity in Kampala City through a direct government-to-government agreement with KCCA. The NOFO will build capacity for implementation and coordination of HIV and TB service delivery, and improve integration with other efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to other infectious and non-infectious disease threats that affect PLHIV and persons affected by HIV and TB in Uganda.

Grant Details
The NOFO will support the following strategies:

Strategy 1 focuses on strengthening partnerships and governance by collaborating for harmonized and integrated annual health work plans, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plans, economic analyses, management of US government (USG) and other donor funds, health information and laboratory systems that strengthen HIV, TB, other reportable infectious and non-infectious diseases that impact people living with HIV (PLHIV) and populations affected by HIV and TB.

Strategy 2 aims to ensure HIV and TB service delivery by strengthening capacity within Kampala City to independently implement public health HIV interventions to achieve HIV epidemic control in KCCA.

Strategy 3 focuses on the integration of HIV and TB with other diseases through interventions to protect PLHIV and persons affected by HIV and TB from epidemics through activities including outbreak detection, investigation, response, strengthening laboratory systems, surveillance for priority diseases, antimicrobial resistance detection, and control.

Strategy 4 aims at integrating health information systems for surveillance, M&E, and laboratory systems strengthening to support integrated surveillance for HIV/TB, other emerging diseases, public health emergencies that impact PLHIV and populations affected by HIV/TB.

Eligibility Requirements
The NOFO is open to single eligible applicants. It is a Cooperative Agreement funding instrument type with an approximate number of awards set at 1. The total period of performance funding is $0 for the first year with an average one year award amount of $2,000,000. There are no cost sharing or matching requirements for this program.

Period of Performance
The total period of performance length is 5 years with an estimated award date set for September 30, 2021.

Grant Value
$2,000,000 is the approximate total fiscal year funding/average one year award amount/approximate average award amount for Year 1. The expected number of awards is 1.

Place of Performance
The grant will be performed in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Uganda.