DEADLINE: 28TH JANUARY, 2022
PALLADIUM
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS (RFA) FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR INCREASING ACCESS TO AND UTILIZATION OF QUALITY CHILD HEALTH AND FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES THROUGH CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT OF PPMVs AND COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS IN BAUCHI, KEBBI AND SOKOTO STATES UNDER THE “USAID INTEGRATED HEALTH PROGRAM
Palladium’s Request for Applications (RFA) Numbers
1. IHP-TOO3-2022-RFA006: Increasing Access to and Utilization of Quality Child Health and Family Planning Services through Capacity Enhancement of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors and Community Pharmacists in Bauchi State.
2. IHP-TO04-2022-RFA006: Increasing Access to and Utilization of Quality Child Health and Family Planning Services through Capacity Enhancement of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors and Community Pharmacists in Kebbi State.
3. IHP-TOO5-2022-RFAO06: Increasing Access to and Utilization of Quality Child Health and Family Planning Services through Capacity Enhancement of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors and Community Pharmacists in Sokoto State.
Title: Increasing Access to and Utilization of Quality Child Health and Family Planning Services through Capacity Enhancement of PPMVs and Community Pharmacists in Bauchi, Kebbi and Sokoto States under the “USAID Integrated Health Program
1. Overview
USAID’s Integrated Health Program (HP) invites qualified local entities, Nigerian Non-governmental Organizations (For-Profit and Not-for-Profit), non-governmental professional associations, training institutions and other qualified organizations to submit concept notes and full applications (if shortlisted) with respect to technical, managerial, and other aspects of the program described below.
IHP is seeking interested eligible organizations that have interest in aligning with Nigeria’s Task-shifting and Task-sharing Policy to train Patent Proprietary Medicine Vendors (PPMVs) and Community Pharmacists (CPs) on timely identification and management of uncomplicated common childhood illnesses (malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, nutrition screening), improving access to family planning services and products and referral of pregnant women newborns ar
severely ill patients to health facilities.
Goals and Objectives
Objectives
Using an offsite clustered training approach through Fixed Amount Awards (Grants Under Contract funding mechanism), the awardee will
1. Strengthen the capacity of PPMVs and CPs on prompt identification, classification, and treatment of uncomplicated common childhood illnesses such as malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, and making referrals
2. Improve the skills of PPMVs and CPs on their roles and scope in providing family planning service including infom, screen, refilinitiate, and refer clients.
3. Improve their skills on nutrition assessment and counseling, including exclusive breastfeeding, complementary feeding, good hygiene practices, identifying signs and symptoms of malnutrition and prompt referrals.
4. Build the capacity of PPMVs and CPs on service delivery data documentation and record-keeping using the Community Health Management Information System (CHMIS)
5. Provide post-training supportive supervision and mentoring using the hub and spoke supervisory model to reinforce knowledge and skills.
Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN) will carry out a training of trainers to standardize competencies of the trainers prior to the stepped-down training of the PPMVs and CPs. The grantee will be responsible for the logistics for the ToT and all step-down and mentoring activities
Period of Performance of Grant Under Contract: Approximately March 1,2022-September 30, 2022 (must be fully completed no later than September 30,2022)
The full guide, RFA, Templates and Instructions for submitting the Concept note can be accessed via this link: https://bit.ly/3q2oRq9
1. Submit a letter indicating interest in applying for any of the Task Orders (Tos). If applying for multiple states, separate submissions is required for each state submission
2. When applying for more than one state, submit a full package of all the requirements for each state.
3. Provide evidence of eligibility as per the requirements.
Other consideration to note while submitting the Concept note:
All short-listed organizations will be invited to submit a full application.
Electronic submissions:
Please send your completed documents in PDF form as a single file to IHP.Grants@ihp-nigeria.com referencing the RFA number or numbers on the subject of your email. The document should not be more than 100MB in size. Sometimes electronic submissions are affected by internet challenges and IT issues; as a result, organizations are advised to plan and ensure submissions are made before the deadline. IHP will not be held liable if electronic submissions are not delivered or have other challenges that may render it not readable.
Representative Email: Ihp.grants@ihp-nigeria.com
Programme website: www.thepalladiumgroup.com
Issuance of this RFA does not constitute an award commitment, nor does it commit Palladium to pay for costs incurred in the preparation and submission.
Note: This submission of concept note closes on January 28, 2022 by 5.30pm local time while full Application submission closes on February 7, 2022.
