USAID Usalama wa Afya Duniani (Global Health Security) Project

Background
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Health Security (GHS) Program seeks to prevent and mitigate the increasing occurrence and severity of epidemics, pandemics and other emerging infectious disease threats. This is achieved by partnering with countries, as well as global, regional, and local public and private sector organizations. These partnerships build and strengthen measurable, sustainable capacity while helping to develop and adopt evidence-based and innovative solutions to prevent, rapidly detect, effectively respond to, and ultimately recover from emerging infectious disease (EID) threats.

Grant Details
The purpose of the USAID Usalama wa Afya Duniani (Global Health Security) Project is to support the strengthening of Tanzania’s capacities to develop, validate, and implement interventions to prevent, detect, and respond to EID threats in Tanzania using a One Health approach. The project will focus on building capacity at national level, zonal and regional healthcare facilities to prevent, detect and monitor antimicrobial resistance (AMR), implement antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), prevent the spread of resistant organisms, strengthen the quality of the laboratory system to rapidly and accurately detect and report EIDs and AMR, support Government of Tanzania systems to achieve the 7-1-7 metric for timeliness of outbreak response, institutionalize consistent infection prevention and control (IPC) practices among healthcare workers in medical facilities.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligibility for this award is restricted to local Tanzanian entities. Applicants must provide all information as required in this NOFO and meet eligibility standards in Section C of this NOFO.

Period of Performance
The project will be allocated up to $25,000,000.00 over a 5-year period. An extra $5,000,000.00 will be allocated for use in the event of a projected or current shock or public health emergency should additional resources be made available to USAID for that purpose.

Grant Value
$25,000,000.00 over a 5-year period with an additional $5,000,000.00 allocated for use in the event of a projected or current shock or public health emergency.

Place of Performance
The specific geographic location(s) where the grant will be performed is Tanzania.