Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA GH16 16400201SUPP17
This supplemental funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), supports PEPFAR Namibia efforts to help the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) address critical health workforce gaps that are limiting progress toward HIV epidemic control. The award is structured as a cooperative agreement (CDC RFA GH16-16400201SUPP17) with an anticipated single award of up to $345,000. The application deadline listed for this announcement was May 20, 2017.
At its core, the opportunity is designed to provide targeted, cost-effective technical assistance and capacity building connected to PEPFAR- and Global Fund-supported health activities, with a strong emphasis on HIV. A key feature is that the funding is not meant to pay for direct service delivery or front-line program implementation. Instead, it is meant to strengthen the systems, people, and technical capabilities of the organizations and government structures that do implement and scale programs, so they can deliver higher-quality services and eventually assume greater responsibility for national HIV response efforts.
The FOA prioritizes technical assistance in five PEPFAR-supported programmatic areas. Applicants are expected to propose support in one or more of these areas: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT); HIV care and treatment clinical services for adults and children; pediatric HIV care and treatment; surveillance and strategic information (SI); and laboratory systems. In practice, these areas reflect the core building blocks needed to improve HIV case identification and linkage, maintain high-quality treatment services for adults and children, prevent new pediatric infections, produce reliable data for decision-making, and ensure laboratory services can support diagnosis, monitoring, and quality assurance.
A central deliverable under this supplement is human resources for health support, specifically through HR services that enable MOHSS and partners to recruit, deploy, and retain qualified personnel in seven high HIV burden regions: Oshana, Omusati, Ohangwena, Oshikoto, Kavango, Zambezi, and Khomas. These regions together are described as covering an estimated population of about 1 million. The intent is not simply staffing for staffing’s sake, but staffing that strengthens the health information management system and improves the overall ability of MOHSS to plan, monitor, and manage HIV services at scale. By increasing the availability of health professionals, technical specialists, and administrative support staff where the burden is highest, the program aims to remove operational bottlenecks that slow progress toward epidemic control targets.
The HR support functions emphasized in the announcement are practical and operational, resembling an embedded HR platform that can quickly bring qualified people into high-need roles and keep them properly supported. These functions include advertising positions, recruiting candidates, deploying staff, compensating them, administering payroll, providing personnel support, and delivering broader human resource management (HRM). In addition to longer-term staffing, the FOA also allows for short-term contracts and consultants to bring in specialized technical expertise when needed, particularly in the same high-burden regions. This consultant support is positioned as a way to fill urgent skills gaps or provide focused, time-limited assistance to improve performance in priority technical areas.
The opportunity is explicitly tied to Namibia’s national HIV strategy and PEPFAR’s epidemic control goals, including a target described in the text of providing 95 percent of eligible people living with HIV with antiretroviral therapy (ART) by 2017, as part of the national strategic framework referenced by MOHSS. The announcement frames workforce shortages as a major constraint to reaching these goals, noting Namibia faces one of the most severe public health workforce shortages globally. By strengthening staffing and technical capacity, the supplement is intended to help Namibia improve service delivery readiness and management capacity so that PEPFAR and Global Fund investments translate into sustained, country-owned progress toward HIV epidemic control and, ultimately, an AIDS-free generation.
Finally, the FOA also highlights support to Global Fund implementing partners beyond staffing alone, including helping them assess HIV service delivery and develop technical assistance plans and strategies. This reinforces the overall theme: the award is meant to provide high-quality, targeted technical support that strengthens systems and capabilities across implementing partners and the MOHSS, rather than directly operating HIV programs itself. Eligible applicants are listed broadly as “Others” with additional eligibility details referenced in the original announcement text.Apply for CDC RFA GH16 16400201SUPP17
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - CGH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "SUPPLEMENT: Assisting the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) in Providing Critical Human Resources for Health to Achieve HIV Epidemic Control in Namibia under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.067.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 21, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 20, 2017 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $345,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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