CALL FOR PROPOSALS Reference: I5PC–2014–02 1. CONTEXT The 5% Initiative is an innovative method of providing bilateral support, and represents a strengthening of France’s commitment to the Global Fund and a reaffirmation of France’s priorities for official development assistance with regard to the application of grants. The 5% Initiative is implemented by France Expertise Internationale (FEI) under the oversight of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). This Initiative ’mission is to meet the need for technical expertise in French-speaking countries in order to assist the latter in the design, implementation and monitoring & evaluation of Global Fund grants. A further objective is to build capacity in beneficiary countries and enhance the sanitary impact of programmes. The New Funding Model of the Global Fund aims to invest more strategically and more efficiently to allow partners to reach out people affected by the diseases. In 2013, this New Funding model was launched in pilot countries. From 2014, all of the eligible countries would be able to submit a request of funding under this new model. To reinforce the National Health Systems and the sustainability of the Global Fund grants, the 5% Initiative launch a call for proposals to strengthen the integration of HIV, Malaria and TB programmes, funded by the Global Fund, in the National Health System The total amount of this call for proposal I5PC-2014-01 and I5PC-2014-02 will be around 11 million euros.

2. SUBJECT OF THE CALL FOR PROPOSALS Please note that projects that do not meet the subject of the call for proposals or do not reinforce Global Fund grants will not be considered. OBJECTIVE OF THE CALL FOR PROJECTS The purpose of this call is to select complementary projects to the Global Fund grants which aim at: "To reinforce the integration of vertical programmes (HIV, Malaria, TB) in the national health systems" TYPES OF ELIGIBLE PROJECTS Different types of projects may be submitted:



Health System Strengthening projects Health System strengthening projects may aim, for instance: – – –

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To reinforce the integration of the Sanitary Information System in one or three diseases in the National Health System; To reinforce the mutualization of services (laboratories, procurement and supply chain management…) between vertical programmes; To embed significant progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS (respect of confidentiality, fight against discrimination....) in national systems of patients’ rights protection (for all 3 diseases); To reinforce health officers ‘university curricula to ensure they integrate more widely and systematically necessary skills in the context of HIV and tuberculosis care; Expand civil society actors’ skills to enable community services to link with other diseases and not to stick to only one specific disease (therapeutic education, home visits, searches for lost to follow-up people…); Etc.

Operational Research projects Operational Research projects may aim for instance: –

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To evaluate the feasibility of such interventions strengthening the mutualization of services between vertical programmes (laboratories, procurement and supply chain management …), To evaluate the interest, in terms of cost-efficiency, of interventions strengthening collaboration between programmes, To evaluate the efficiency of innovative and common health data feedback systems, Etc.

Projects can combine activities of Heath system strengthening and Operational Research In any case they must reply to the objective of the call for proposals. Projects will not be prevention project, of diagnostic or treatment, neither projects of clinical research.

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ADMISSIBILITY AND ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA Following criteria will determine which projects can be evaluated. For projects that do not meet one or more criteria, they will not be evaluated.

CRITERIA OF ADMISSIBILITY France Expertise Internationale will verify at first that each submitted project answers all the following criteria of eligibility: 3.1 Duration Projects will run from 24 to 36 months 3.2 Requested amount

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The total amount of the fund will cover 60% to 100% of the budget of the project and will be between 250.000 euros and 1.000.000 euros for the projects implemented in a single country, and between 250.000 euros and 1.500.000 euros for the projects implemented in several countries.

3.3 Status To be eligible, the applicant must:  Be a legal person whose headquarters are located in an eligible country or in France and  Be implemented in partnership (several involved entities) and  Include at least one beneficiary countries’ partner and  Respect specific criteria described in point 2 « Subject for the call for proposals» and  Demonstrate their capacity to manage effectively the presented budget: experience in managing similar budgets, sufficient human resources, etc. (this capacity will be evaluated based on the organization’s presentation and on the past two years' financial statements). International organizations can participate as expertise suppliers, but not as project leader, and are not eligible to receive funds. For management capacity reasons, one-man companies can participate only as partner and not as project leader. For this call for proposals, each organization can apply only once as principal applicant (project leader). However, an organization can participate to different projects as a partner. Countries List of Eligible Countries to the call1:                     

Afghanistan Albania Armenia Benin Myanmar Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroun Cape Verde Comoros Côte d’Ivoire Djibouti Dominica Egypt Gabon Georgia Ghana Guinea-Bissau Guinea Conakry Equatorial Guinea

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Mali Morocco Mauritania Moldavia Mozambique Niger Central African Republic Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo Dominican Republic Mauritius Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Saint Lucia Senegal Serbia Palestinian Territories Chad Thailand Togo Tunisia

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Countries with priority for French ODA (per the CICID decision of 31 July 2013) Countries in crisis exit situations, countries with member or observer status in the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and benefiting from ODA and countries eligible to the Global Fund

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Haiti Laos Madagascar

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Ukraine Vanuatu Vietnam

The project can be led for the benefit of beneficiaries in one or several of these countries, but exclusively from these countries. The projects asking for funding for activities implemented in a not eligible country will not be studied. 3.4 Completeness Submitted proposals should include all mandatory documentation and information referred to in paragraph 6. CRITERIA OF ELIGIBILITY For the admitted projects, France Expertise Internationale will verify then that the projects respect the following three criteria: 

The objectives of the project are in accordance with the object of the call for projects.



The project join a logic of strengthening and complementarity with the Global Fund’s Grants



The lead applicant organization has sufficient capacities of management to manage the requested budget. This capacity of management will be established on the basis of the presentation of the organization, its financial statements of the last two years, its estimated budget, and will take into account the fact that the organization has an experience of management of similar budgets and that it has sufficient human resources.

Only the projects respecting all these criteria will be estimated.

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BUDGET INFORMATION

The costs are financed according to real costs incurred by the partners of the project (no fixed package will be admitted in the budget). The budget must be presented by unit cost x number of units = total, according to the model in annexes. Are not eligible:      

The expenses linked to activities of prevention, of diagnosis and of management of patients, except diagnosis and care planned to the protocol of operational research project; The medical inputs, except inputs necessary for a project of operational search; The salaries of state employees; The salaries of people already financed by other programmes, in particular those of the Global Fund; The running costs of CCM; The expenses of construction of buildings;

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The purchases of vehicles.

The call of proposals doesn’t aim to finance overhead coast. The projects which would consist mainly of running costs funding of tenderers structures will not be studied. The budget has to include contingencies of maximum 5 % and can plan a line of facilities and administrative costs until 7 %.

5. EVALUATION CRITERIA The projects’ evaluation grid is available on FEI website: www.fei.gouv.fr and on the 5% Initiative website www.initiative5pour100.fr/en Please note that when evaluators fill out the evaluation grids, they will focus predominantly on the below criteria:  All projects should demonstrate their impact on the Global Fund’s grants; and should be based on a clear and carefully argued analysis of the context and needs for the concerned Global Funds’ grants.  All projects should demonstrate a considerable involvement and strong partnerships of partners based in the beneficiary country (ies). Capacity building projects in particular should demonstrate they respond to the beneficiary’s request.  The projects will have to demonstrate besides clearly: 

Their durability beyond the financed actions;



The authenticity and the long-term partnerships.

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REQUIRED DOCUMENTS Proposals should include the documents listed below:          

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The project proposal (application form) Logical framework (see template attached) Activities time frame (see template attached) Detailed budget in euros (see template attached) Copy of the lead applicant organization’s memorandum or originals association articles Lead applicant organization’s updated financial statements(under the 2012 and under the 2013) and, if possible, audited accounts The estimated budget for 2014 The annual report Commitment letters for each project implementing partner Commitment letters for each project’s beneficiary organization

SUBMISSION OF PROJECTS

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Projects have to be sent in English or French by email only at the following address: [email protected] before April 30, 2014 at 12AM (French Time) (based on the date and time of receipt of the file). All the questions linked to the call must be sent at the same address, by email only, on April 8, 2014 12 am, at the latest. The answers to the received questions within the time allowed will be on line on FEI website www.fei.gouv.fr and 5% Initiative website http://www.initiative5pour100.fr/en/ on March 10, 2014 and April 10, 2014.

The evaluation grid, application form and annexes’ templates are available on FEI website www.fei.gouv.fr and on the 5% Initiative website http://www.initiative5pour100.fr/en/

NB: according to the type of need in strengthening of capacities, the 5 % Initiative calls back that the Channel 1 allows implementing, all year round, missions of expertise / of technical support for periods of less than 12 months period, and which could answer punctual needs. You can consult the missions already approved on www.initiative5pour100.fr/en/

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