USAID/Southern Africa is offering grants to strengthen primary health care and social service platforms for sustained HIV epidemic control and improved health outcomes in Botswana.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID/Southern Africa) is seeking applications in support of the “Comprehensive Community Prevention and Continuum of Care Program to support sustained HIV epidemic control and improved health outcomes through strengthened primary health care and social service platforms in Botswana.” USAID anticipates multiple awards as a result of this solicitation. 

The purpose of the Comprehensive Community Prevention and Continuum of Care Program is to support sustained HIV epidemic control and improved health outcomes through strengthened primary health care and social service platforms in Botswana. The activity will support the USAID Vision for Health System Strengthening 2030’s three overarching health system goals of equity, quality, and resource optimization through a focus on the health system functions of health financing, leadership, management, and governance; and health workforce. 

The Comprehensive Community Prevention and Continuum of Care Program is aligned to the Regional Development Cooperation Strategy Regional Development Objective RDO3: “Resilience of people and systems strengthened”; and IR3.2 “ Equitable Provision of Quality Health and Other Services Improved”. The Comprehensive Community Prevention and Continuum of Care Program will support three components: which will be implemented under three distinct cooperative agreements: Two awards will be Component A & B, segregated by districts; and one award under Component C.

Component A and B: These components are focused on direct service delivery (DSD) to strengthen community engagement and primary health care platforms so that they are responsive to community needs across lifespans and across levels of care while also strengthening social services to be responsive to the needs of children, adolescents, and youth. The components should prioritize orphans and vulnerable children, adolescent girls and young women, key populations, and men in specific age groups with an array of HIV services covering from combination HIV prevention including pre-exposure prophylaxis, HIV testing, anti-retroviral drugs, Adherence support and viral load monitoring. Additionally, the activity will provide social services including addressing issues of parenting, social asset building, education access, economic strengthening, and gender-based violence. The districts where this work will be implemented are as follows:

●      Component A: Gaborone, Mahalapye, Kgatleng, Serowe, Palapye, Selibe Phikwe, South East, Ngamiland, Ghanzi

●      Component B: Kweneng East, Southern, Bobirwa, North East, Francistown, Goodhope, Lobatse, Moshupa and Tutume.

Component C: This component is focused on technical assistance to strengthen health and social protection services for prioritized populations. It will also strengthen civil society organizations (CSOs) to be able to deliver quality HIV and social services. This component will also build the capacity of civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to better partner and coordinate with GoB departments and the private sector to foster greater sustainability of HIV prevention and GBV services.

The focus of this component should be national coverage especially for capacity building offered to the government of Botswana ministries. Capacity Building for local non-governmental organizations should be limited to organizations supporting direct service delivery in the districts of Gaborone, Mahalapye, Kgatleng, Serowe, Palapye, Selibe-Phikwe, South East, Kweneng East, Southern, Bobirwa, North East, Francistown, Goodhope, Lobatse, Moshupa and Tutume.