PEPFAR Global Nurse Capacity Building Program Grant

Funding of $6,500,000 to $8,500,000 per year for the first three years and $500,000 for the last two years of the project is anticipated, pending availability of funds, for one organization. Of the $6.5 – 8.5 Million in the first three years, $6-8 Million will be used to support the Nursing Educational Partnership Initiative (NEPI), a sub-project of the NCBP that is focused on pre-service training. $500,000 per year, for five years, will be used towards development and implementation of another sub-project, the general nursing capacity building program, which has a focus on increasing the capacity of nurses to provide HIV/AIDS care and treatment, with activities such as in-service and pre-service training and mentorship activities, and strengthened in-country nursing leadership. These are Central funds, which are monies that are allocated at the U. S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) for this cooperative agreement. OGAC is the PEPFAR headquarters in Washington, DC.

The awarded organization will work with the USG in-country and Ministries of Health to access additional programmatic funds through the PEPFAR Country Operational Plans (COPs). The COP is the vehicle for documenting USG annual investments and anticipated results in HIV/AIDS and the basis for approval of annual USG bilateral HIV/AIDS funding in most countries.

GOALS

The goals of the NCBP are to:
1) Improve the production, quality, and relevance of nurses and midwives to address essential population-based health care needs, including HIV and other life threatening conditions, in low resource settings. Activities will build capacity of government and educational institutes for the purpose of strengthening nursing systems.

2) Identify, evaluate and disseminate innovative models and practices that are generalizable for the national scale-up of nurse and midwife training programs at the national level in low resource settings. This will be achieved through the activities of the NCBP’s NEPI Coordinating Center, which will facilitate country ownership and participation, analyze and communicate the effect of a diversity of interventions, and offer support to national pre-service nursing studies.

3) Develop and foster partnerships with one or more local and regional nurse/midwife affiliated institutions and organizations to assist in the provision of both technical and capacity building support as described in this FOA. The aim of this relationship will be for the (indigenous) local or regional partner(s) to be able to execute some or all of the activities in this FOA. The local partner will develop strong technical capacity and be able to provide technical assistance.