Opportunity ID: 172395

General Information

Document Type:: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:: AID-OAA-A-12-00014
Funding Opportunity Title:: Support for Improvement Science (SIS)
Opportunity Category:: Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation::
Funding Instrument Type::
Category of Funding Activity:: Health
Category Explanation::
Expected Number of Awards:: 1
Assistance Listings Number(s):: 98.001 — USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:: No
Version:: Synopsis 1
Posted Date:: May 23, 2012
Last Updated Date::
Original Closing Date for Applications:: Jun 29, 2012
Current Closing Date for Applications:: Jun 29, 2012
Archive Date:: Jul 29, 2012
Estimated Total Program Funding::
Award Ceiling:: $185,492,000
Award Floor:: $0

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants:: Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:: To be eligible for the Cooperative Agreement under this RFA, an organization must:
1. Be a U.S. PVO, a U.S. NGO or a local NGO.
a. U.S. PVOs – U.S. non-governmental organizations that meet the Conditions of
Registration as outlined in 22 CFR 203;
To register with USAID as a U.S. PVO, please refer to USAID‘s website at
www.usaid.gov, USAID Keyword: PVO Registration, or http://idea.usaid.gov/ls/pvo
for complete information and guidance;
b. U.S. NGOs – other U.S. non-profit NGOs that do not meet the definition of a U.S.
PVO, as well as U.S. commercial organizations;
c. Non-U.S. NGO – either non-profit or for profit, that are not affiliated with a foreign
government; and
d. Must be able to meet the eligibility criteria in 22CR228, sub-part D
2. Individuals are not eligible to apply.

Additional Information

Agency Name:: USAID
Description:: The overall objective of SIS is to foster improvements in a range of health care processes,
and to document these improvements with evidence of change in quantitative indicators
of quality, based on the application of modern QI methodologies by host country
providers and managers. QI interventions, regardless of their level of success, should be
accompanied by documentation of how they were carried out, in sufficient detail to allow
providers in another health system to design and implement a similar intervention. In
addition to supporting the implementation of QI, SIS should also support a range of
activities designed to study and improve the application of QI methods in LMICs by
generating new knowledge.
The central purpose of SIS is to build the capacity of host country health systems to
improve the effectiveness, efficiency, patient-centeredness, safety, accessibility, and
equity of the services that they provide. In order to do this, the recipient should draw on
improvement methodologies selected on the basis of evidence. In addition to
demonstrating objective evidence of improvements in health care, the recipient will also
demonstrate progress in measures of:
a. the degree to which improvement has been institutionalized as an integral part of
health care;
b. the sustainability of improved practices; and
c. the successful scale up or spread of health care improvements.
Link to Additional Information::
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Version History

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Synopsis 1

Package Status

Package No: 1

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