USAID Comprehensive Platform for Integrated Communication Initiative (CPICI) Grant Program

USAID welcomes applications from organizations that have not previously received financial assistance from USAID.

USAID has led a major push in the past few years to foster a larger assistance base and expand the number of sustainability of development partners, including faith-based organizations, small businesses, and minority serving institutions (MSI’s. The USAID MSI Program’s mission is to facilitate an environment where U.S. MSIs become USAID partners by successfully competing for USAID awards and by engaging in U.S. foreign assistance activities. The USAID MSI Program provides support to minority-serving U.S. higher education institutions interested in USAID programs and activities and promotes the interests, capabilities, and experience of MSI’s within USAID. MSI’s include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs). For more information on MSI’s please follow this link: https://www.usaid.gov/partnership-opportunities/universities/ minority-serving-institutions. A list of current MSI’s could be found under a link that is under Section VIII, B. Applicable Regulations and References.

Applicants must have established financial management, monitoring and evaluation processes, internal control systems, and policies and procedures that comply with established USG standards, laws, and regulations. The successful applicant will be subject to a risk assessment (Pre-award Survey) by the AO.

The Recipient must be a responsible entity. The AO may determine a pre-award survey is required to conduct an examination that will determine whether the prospective Recipient has the necessary organization, experience, accounting and operational controls, and technical skills – or ability to obtain them – in order to achieve the objectives of the program and comply with the terms and conditions of the award.

All local institutions or affiliates of international organizations must be registered as a legal entity in Tanzania. Local registration is not a requirement at application time, but it is required prior to the award.

The principal partners for CPICI are Government of Tanzania agencies, United States Government (USG) agencies, other donors, implementing partners and multi-sectoral institutions. USAID seeks to support a program that leverages existing resources and social and behavioral change communications (SBCC) linkages between the central, regional, and Local Government Authorities (LGAs) and engage Community Health Workers (CHWs), public and private sector providers, and community and elected leaders.

USAID wishes to support a program that will provide SBCC support and build local capacity for behavior changes needed to improve health outcomes in Family Planning/Reproductive Health (FP/RH), Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MNCAH), Malaria, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), Tuberculosis (TB) and other selected health areas. The target populations of CPICI are women and youth, and because their health behaviors are affected by gender equity and power dynamics, these elements should be addressed in the Applicant’s approach.

The Recipient of the CPICI award should establish and maintain a small central office in Dar es Salaam. As CPICI is envisioned as a national program with activities driven by and coordinated with other USAID Health Office awards (particularly the Comprehensive Health Service Delivery (CHSD) activity), the CPICI recipient is encouraged to co-located staff in offices of the three CHSD award implementers (once selected). The Dar es Salaam office is expected to facilitate national project coordination with the GOT and USAID/Tanzania, provide oversight to the activity, and support regions in which CHSD is not being implemented but which require SBCC interventions. CPICI regional office staff should coordinate with CHSD and other USAID activities as well as the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC ) Health Education and Promotion Section (HEPS) on the ground and be responsible for regional to district-level training. USAID wishes to support a program that will plan, design, implement, monitor and evaluate to the extent possible with other partners. Because USAID/Tanzania expects the CPICI recipient to work closely with other USAID implementing partners, a key factor of success for the Recipient’s CPICI program will be strong coordination with other Mission activities. This coordination is expected to be fundamental to the success of the Recipient’s program, and the CPICI recipient will be expected to describe in detail in its application how its proposed program, will accomplish this in a meaningful and effective way.