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Address public health threats posed by infectious diseases not targeted elsewhere in the Framework as well as significant non-communicable health threats of major public health importance.

Supports the following illustrative program-funded costs: salaries of US, FSN, and TCN and other staff such as PSCs, RSSAs, PASAs, CASUs working for the US Government managing, administering, and supporting programs and their program-funded benefits such as housing, travel, transportation, education allowances etc; institutional contractors that provide such staff, rent, IT services, the program-funded share of utilities, staff training costs and the cost of developing and administering training programs, equipment and supplies, ICASS, vehicle fuel and maintenance, maintenance contracts, janitorial services, operational unit web page development and maintenance, outreach such as publications and the cost of their preparation (including staff costs), and technical assistance to ensure USG compliance with regulations.

The provision of effective protection, assistance, and durable solutions for refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and other victims of conflict and disasters.

Support peaceful political competition and negotiation of disputes through a democratic and representative political process. Create and support vehicles for people to debate public priorities, air alternative solutions, win support for proposed remedies and provide input to decisions that affect their lives.

Government-to-Government Agricultural Direct Financing

The Government of Nepals Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) has seen award-winning success in improving maternal and infant health across the country. The Ministry is on track to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 Reduce Child Mortality and 5 Improve Maternal Health and continues to strive to realize further accomplishments in the areas of maternal, newborn and child health. To build on these successes, USAID provides direct funding to strengthen MOHP staff capacity and management systems with the end goal of improving quality and access to services focused on marginalized and vulnerable communities. Through this direct funding approach, USAID leverages host country systems and personnel to reach people who have the greatest need for quality maternal and child health services.

(Nepal): The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST) has demonstrated its commitment to ensuring equitable access to quality education for all students by meeting targets set under the 2016-2021 School Sector Development Program (SSDP). The MOEST and development partners are developing a new five-year sector plan. In USAID's Education Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) Phase 1, the activity supported one disbursement linked indicator (DLI) that targeted improving primary grade learning outcomes through scale-up of the National Early Grade Reading Program (NEGRP). In SWAp Phase 2, under the new SSDP, USAID will use FY 2020 resources to expand its support to at least two DLI result areas, continuing to incentivize the GON's implementation of targeted interventions to improve primary grade learning outcomes and to ensure that the most marginalized groups have access to education - even in the face of crisis. Potential Phase 2 DLIs include financing targets to expand the NEGRP to the remaining 38 districts, implementing "pro-poor" school interventions that advance Nepal's Equity Strategy, and supporting the continued development of digital distance learning..SWAp Phase 2 advances the USAID key Basic Education Policy priorities: "Children and youth gain literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills that are foundational to future learning success" and "the most marginalized and vulnerable, have increased access to quality education that is safe and relevant." This assistance will allow the USG to better harmonize foreign development efforts with other donor partners, demonstrate commitment to the principles of aid effectiveness, and achieve financing and Journey to Self-Reliance metrics. This activity supports the Embassy Kathmandu's ICS Goal Two: Increase America's prosperity by developing Nepal as a reliable economic partner and Mission Objective 2.2: Nepal improves health and education outcomes to increase economic productivity..

Promote sustainable improvements in health outcomes by reducing key health systems constraints to achieve the goals and objectives of multiple health elements and the health area overall. Activities coded here aim to promote financial protection, efficiency, and affordability of health services in general; ensure the quality or availability of an essential package of prevention, promotion, treatment and care services; enhance equitable access to priority services by under-served, marginalized and other high priority groups; and ensure responsiveness to people's expectations. Such activities strengthen the core health systems functions/building blocks (leadership and governance; finance; human resources for health; medicines, vaccines and technology; and service delivery). Note 1: Operating Units should report activities that address specific element goals under other elements, reserving the use of this cross-cutting health systems strengthening element for overarching activities that are supported with multiple health element funding. Note 2: Operating units should report activities that strengthen the information function of the health system under the Host Country Strategic Information Systems element.

Provide children an education in reading, writing, and mathematics, and the basic skills of problem-solving, cooperative learning, and communication to develop pupils ability to obtain and use information they need about their home, community, and country. Activities typically utilize a formal school curriculum in or outside of a school. Primary education is also sometimes called elementary education.

Increase availability and use of proven nutrition interventions to reduce mortality, morbidity, and food insecurity, including nutrition education to improve maternal diets, nutrition during pregnancy, exclusive breastfeeding, and infant and young child feeding practices; fortified or biofortified staple foods, specialized food products, and community gardens to improve consumption of quality food; and delivery of nutrition services including micronutrient supplementation and community management of acute malnutrition. Strengthen host country capacity by advancing supportive nutrition and food security policies and improving nutrition information systems.

Contribute to sustained improvements in education quality, efficiency, and equity through strengthened education policy, governance, financing, facilities, human resources, public information, and management of education services. A range of activities may target the national, regional, district, and community levels of the education system; pre-primary, primary, lower-secondary, upper secondary, and nonformal education; and public or private education.

Implementation Letter with the Government of Nepal

Ministry of Health and Population Implementation Letter - Redbook Support

Ministry of Health and Population Implementation Letter - Food Security Program Activities

Ministry of Health and Population Implementation Letter - Support To AEPC

Ministry of Health and Population Implementation Letter - As Redbook Support to DOH for NFY 69/70

Ministry of Health and Population Implementation Letter - As Health Sector Program Implement Plan 2010-2015

(Nepal): USAID will utilize FY 2015 funds to support the new Early Grade Reading Program (EGRP). The EGRP directly supports USAID's Education Strategy Goal One and will be part of the Government of Nepal's (GON) School Sector Reform Program funded by multiple donors and the GON. USAID will assist the Ministry of Education develop, test, and institutionalize interventions to improve reading in public primary grades 1-3. EGRP is implemented through two separate mechanisms, including on-budget GON support. This GON support will drive results in EGR instructional design, teacher professional development, assessment, and monitoring. Annual Work Plans will outline yearly activities. The total government to government funding for five years from 2014 to 2019 is approximately $8,000,000. From the total planned contribution, the additional funds to be added in FY 2015 will be approximately $245,000 of carry-over frin year one (2014-2015), subject to availability of funds and issuance of an Implementation Letter.

(Nepal): USAID will use FY~2014 funds to support the new Early Grade Reading Program (EGRP). The EGRP directly supports USAID's Education Strategy Goal One and will be part of the Government of Nepal's (GON) School Sector Reform Program, funded by multiple donors and the GON. USAID will help the Ministry of Education develop, test, and institutionalize interventions to improve reading in public primary grades 1-3. EGRP will be implemented through four separate mechanisms, including on-budget GON support. This GON support will drive results in instructional support and design, assessment, and monitoring. Annual Work Plans will outline yearly activities. EGRP G2G funding is expected for five years from 2014 to 2019, with an estimated life of project funding of $8,000,000. From the total planned contribution, the FY~2014 amount is $1,175,987, confirmed by the issuance of an Implementation Letter on July 11, 2014.

Ministry of Health and Population Implementation Letter - Redbook Support to Ministry of Health, DOHS

Ministry of Health and Population Implementation Letter - Health Program Activities

Assist to establish and sustain effective, professional and accountable law enforcement services (civilian police, stability/formed police units, and specialized units trained and equipped for specific issues such as port and maritime security, border security, gangs or kidnapping). Improve state capacity to protect persons, property, and democratic institutions against criminal and other extralegal elements. Law enforcement programs should be conceived as part of the criminal justice system, described in detail in the GJD objective.

Ministry of Health and Population Implementation Letter - as Support to NPTI

Increase the availability and use of proven life-saving interventions that address the major killers of mothers and children and improve their health and nutrition status, including effective maternity care and management of obstetric complications; prevention services including newborn care, routine immunization, polio eradication, safe water and hygiene, and micronutrients; improved maternal, infant and young child feeding; and treatment of life-threatening childhood illnesses.

Enhance Stability and Security

Improve early childhood education, primary education, and secondary education, delivered in formal or non-formal settings. It includes literacy, numeracy, and other basic skills programs for youth and adults.

This award is for a direct administrative costs or operating expenses of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

This award is for a direct administrative costs or operating expenses of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

(Nepal): Peace Corps (PC) returned to Nepal in late 2012. USAID and PC signed a five-year Inter-Agency Agreement (IAA) in December 2011. USAID is contributing $10 million to the IAA. This innovative program utilizes a whole-of-government approach, bringing together the comparative advantages of PC and USAID in implementing two Presidential Initiatives: Global Health Initiative (GHI) and Feed the Future (FTF).In FY 2014, $500,000 in GHI funds and $135,000 in FTF funds will be used for volunteer support costs, volunteer infrastructure support, and staff salaries. Thirty-five new Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) will join the previous 50 in Nepal in FY 2014. The PCVs will support both FTF and GHI objectives. PCVs will work in nutrition, business, and agriculture, and may also support capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, and community assessments.

Support and strengthen reliable and affordable transport systems.

Provide goods, personnel, services and assistance to meet basic human needs in order to foster transition from relief according to principles of universality, impartiality and human dignity. This element should be done, when possible, as part of an integrated, coordinated and/or multi-sectoral approach.

Sustain the productivity of the agricultural sector through investments that foster increasing returns to land, labor, and capital. Targeted interventions to male and female producers provide improvements in technology and management practices, expanded access to markets and credit, increased organizational and market efficiency, and restoration and protection of resiliency in production and livelihood systems.

(Nepal): The DFID-USAID co-funded Family Planning (FP) activity aims to generate new knowledge for better evidence-based programing that improves the health of women and children in Nepal through increased access to and utilization of FP methods. The activity specifically focuses on service delivery for women from vulnerable groups with low contraceptive prevalence and high fertility. Using FY 2015 funds, the project will support the testing of innovative models in six different districts with the purpose of gathering evidence for scale-up of effective FP interventions. Some examples of models to be tested include the introduction of interpersonal communication through female community health volunteers, roving providers to the poorly-staffed public health facilities and the provision of comprehensive FP services through mobile camps. Furthermore, this co-funded project will help support upcoming DFID-supported Nepal Health Sector Support Program in coordination with government counterparts.

Support and strengthen the negotiation process and implement peace and reconciliation processes, accords and ceasefire agreements at track levels 1, 2 and 3, including support to indigenous peacebuilding efforts. For a peace/negotiations process to have a chance of success, it must entail building trust in the process, between parties, and among their constituents, with a special focus on including women. Illustrative activities include negotiation training; platform development; public opinion polling; facilitation activities; elder statesmen engagement; provision of international expert advice and knowledge; financial support to parties; multi-stakeholder dialogues; assistance with the design of peacebuilding training programs; support and maintenance of agreed verification mechanisms; support to complaint tracking mechanisms; and work with local and national government representatives to bring them closer to their constituencies.

Increased Private Sector Participation in Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Hydropower Development

Strengthened Governance Of Natural Resources & Selected Inst

Improve the ability of the USG, host countries and other partners to prepare for and mitigate the effects of disasters, including both natural disasters and complex emergencies, taking into account the differences in men and womens freedom of movement and access to information. Activities under this component include any efforts to enhance the capacities of the USG (in Washington and in the field), humanitarian assistance providers, national host-country authorities, and local communities to engage in disaster reduction and response activities. Activities consist of standardized and coordinated assessments, monitoring, information sharing, data and situational analysis, joint planning; enhancement of coping mechanisms, including the capacity to address adaptation to constantly changing situations on the ground including climate variability and climate change.

Strengthen the legal, regulatory, institutional, and information environment which protects and enables the growth in associational life and the development of independent and sustainable civil society organizations (CSOs). Build the capacity of civil society organizations to act as agents for reform and support their participation in democratic decision-making through articulating and representing their members interests, engaging in service delivery, and advocating for issues which become part of the public agenda and are reflected in public policies. Encourage the strengthening of a civic culture which supports democratic institutions and processes, active participation in political and civic life, and the civic virtues of tolerance, pluralism, compromise, trust, and respect for individual rights, including gender equality.

Critical needs met of targeted vulnerable groups in emergency situations

This award is for a staff travel costs of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Administrative costs and operating expenses of USAID contributing to Miscellaneous Goods, Services, and Operations Maintanence.

Administrative costs and operating expenses of USAID contributing to Payrolls and Benefits.

Administrative costs and operating expenses of USAID contributing to Communications, Utilities, and Rental Payments.

These funds will be used to design and test an approach to improving program effectiveness using a series of rapid, short-term tests or analyses to provide decision makers with timely and actionable evidence o whether operational variatons can improve program outcomes cost effectively. By embedding compressed feedback loops into ongoing program implementation rather than at the end of program implementation, the Rapid Feedback approach offers results geared at program improvements, in constrast to traditional evaluation approaches.

The PREDICT-2 project will assist focus countries in monitoring viruses with pandemic potential as well as behaviors, practices, and conditions associated with viral evolution, spillover, amplification and spread. In addition, PREDICT 2 will improve predictive modeling to better focus surveillance and use surveillance and other data to support policy change and begin developing risk- mitigation strategies to reduce the risk of animal viruses spilling over, amplifying, and spreading in human populations. Implementing partners for PREDICT-2 are University of California-Davis, EcoHealth Alliance, Metabiota, Smithsonian Institution, and Wildlife Conservation Society..

This program supports the Mission's goal for an independent, prosperous, and healthy Ukraine united around core European values in one or more of the following sectors: strengthening of democratic governance, and more inclusive, sustainable, market-driven economic growth.

Objectives for Nepal: The goal of the project is to accelerate the ability of governments, KP organizations, and private-sector providers to collaboratively plan, deliver, and optimize services that reduce HIV transmission among KPs and extend life for those who are living with HIV. The project has three result areas: 1: Increased availability of comprehensive prevention, care, and treatment services, including reliable coverage across the continuum of care for KPs. 2: Demand for comprehensive prevention, care, and treatment services among KPs enhanced and sustained. 3: Strengthened systems for planning, monitoring, evaluating, and ensuring the quality of programs for KPs.

Supporting International Family Planning Organizations 2: Sustainable Networks (SIFPO 2) will increase the use of FP services globally through strengthening selected international Family Planning/Reproductive Health (FP/RH) organizations which have a global reach and an extensive, multi-country network of FP/RH and other health platforms, in order to achieve maximum program impact and synergies.

Administrative costs and operating expenses of USAID contributing to Advisory and Assistance Services.

Administrative costs and operating expenses of USAID contributing to Travel and Transportation.

The United States Agency for International Developments (USAID) Bureau for Global Healths flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) focuses on 25 high-priority countries with the ultimate goal of preventing child and maternal deaths. The Program is introducing and supporting high-impact, sustainable reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) interventions in partnership with ministries of health and other partners. MCSP places a greater emphasis on key cross-cutting issues such as innovation, e/mHealth, equity, quality, gender, public-private partnerships and involvement of civil society, community approaches, health systems strengthening, and behavior change interventions. While maintaining a focus on technical, high-impact interventions; the Program works toward sustainable scale-up to include the health systems that deliver these interventions. In addition to contributing to high-level technical and policy dialogue at the global level, the Program provides tailored technical assistance to help countries meet specific priorities and contextual needs of local RMNCH programs.

Fertility Awareness for Community Transformation (FACT): aims to improve fertility awareness and expand family planning access in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia through communicating actionable, life-course-appropriate information about fertility, enabling individuals and couples to apply this knowledge to their own circumstances and needs.

HC3 is the flagship project for behavior change in the Global Health Bureau. It is designed to complement and add value to behavior change activities supported by USAID Missions worldwide by responding to critical needs in technical leadership, capacity strengthening, research, and innovation. It focuses on the technical areas of family planning/reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and maternal and child health. HC3 will focus on strengthening in-country capacity to implement state-of-the art health communication, including mass media, community-level activities, interpersonal communication, and new media. The project will provide tailored, capacity strengthening to a range of indigenous partners, including governments, NGOs, creative professionals, and academics, with activities to develop individuals, organizations, and national systems. HC3 will also provide technical leadership in health communication that includes professional exchange, analysis of emerging trends, and development and dissemination of technical and operational guidance. The project will be characterized by a strong focus on implementation science, emphasizing rigorous evaluation, documentation, and diffusion of effective practices.

Advancing Partners & Communities advances and supports community programs that seek to improve the overall health of communities and achieve other health-related impacts, especially in relationship to family planning.

Administrative costs and operating expenses of USAID contributing to Equipment, Lands, and Structures.

To assess the sustainability of the CSO sector within the country across seven dimensions, to draft a report with an annual score and narrative analysis for each dimension, and to disseminate the final regional reports to promote its use and visibility locally.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for the Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss

The mission of the Nutrition Innovation Lab is to discover how integrated interventions of agriculture, nutrition and health can achieve large-scale improvements in maternal and child nutrition in Asia and Africa and enhance institutional and human research capacity around agriculture, health and nutrition in Africa and Asia through graduate level training (MS and PhD) and support for short courses and conferences.

Promoting Excellence in Private Sector Engagement (PEPSE): The purpose of this activity is to advance Agency-wide efforts in effective private sector engagement and to provide technical assistance related to building public-private partnerships. This activity will enable the Lab to continue to build partnerships with the private sector, leverage resources to expand the impact of foreign assistance budgets, and also bring the unique expertise and assets of the private sector to make our work more efficient and effective. This award supports implementation of the Lab's Private Sector Engagement training; provides technical assistance to MBIOs on building partnerships and gaining a better understanding of opportunity for partnership in a given country or sector; and,supports data collection and management (for the Agency) related to public private partnerships.

The contrator shall provide administrative, technical, and support staff services to the bureaus of Asia and Legislative and Public Affairs. This contract is to provide a core staff of employees and a workforce surge capacity of support services including administrative, technical, and support staff needed for program design, implementation, oversight, monitoring, and evaluation to the Asia and Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) Bureau's for The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) located in Washington, D.C., with possible work sites overseas in the Asia region.

This award is for a direct administrative costs or operating expenses of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The DHS-7 contract will continue to be USAID's primary implementation mechanism for demographic and health data collection. The purpose of this contract is to improve the collection, analysis, and presentation of population, health, and nutrition data and to facilitate use of these data for planning, policy-making, and program management.

The LEAP award will support continued delivery of learning, evaluation, and analysis services of economic growth programming, including of the Agency's priority Feed the Future initiative. These services are required to enable the Agency to monitor key results and analyze projected impacts from hundreds of millions of dollars of planned investments to promote economic growth in USAID recipient countries.

The Global Health Support Initiative improves the effectiveness of USAID population, health and nutrition programs. Using evidence-based best practices, the program's vision is to create a large, sustainable pool of talented global health professionals and responsive organizational and professional development programs. GHSI main areas of focus include: 1) the recruitment, placement, career development and mentoring of fellows and interns both in Washington DC and abroad; 2) implementation of a diversity initiative that creates opportunities for underrepresented populations in the field of global health; and 3) organizational development support for USAID staff in Washington, DC and USAID Missions and professional development opportunities for fellows and USAID staff.In Indonesia, the GHSI program supports three technical staff within the USAID/Indonesia health office - the Senior Infectious Disease and Science Advisor, the Senior Maternal Child Advisor, and the Global Fund Liaison.

The CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) began in Ethiopia in November 2001 and has addressed a variety of challenges by reaching hard-to-reach communities with vaccination services and surveillance. As a country at high risk for importation from neighboring conflict-affected Somalia and South Sudan, Ethiopia continues to maintain high immunization rates and excellent surveillance. The country has been free of wild polio virus since January 2014. CGPP-Ethiopia presently collaborates with six international NGOs (CARE Ethiopia, Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children, World Vision Ethiopia, International Rescue Committee and African Medical Research Foundation) and five local NGOs.

Breakthrough-ACTION will use state-of-the-art, evidence-based tools to encourage people in developing countries to adopt healthy behaviors, from using modern contraceptive methods to sleeping under bed nets to being tested for HIV. Much of the work will harness the power of communication - from mass media campaigns to TV and radio dramas to simple posters in a health clinic - to inspire long-lasting change. The project will also take advantage of other behavioral science approaches such as behavioral economics and human-centered design to improve programs. The program - which builds on a prior five-year, 31-country project called the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) - is expected to be double the size. It will be led by CCP who will partner with Save the Children, ideas42, ThinkPlace Kenya and Camber Collective. Breakthrough-ACTION will also be supported in the field by ActionSprout, the International Center for Research on Women and Human Network International. CCP is based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Improve the quality of antimalarial drugs by building the capacity of the Department of Food and Drug Administration to meet international standards, and strengthening the pharmaceutical surveillance system.

(USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS)): Purpose: USAID seeks to strengthen its commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) in the workforce and across its partnerships and programming through deliberate and intentional efforts. The purpose of this activity is to improve global food- and water-security through the empowerment of individuals from backgrounds underrepresented in the agriculture, natural resources and related science fields..Activities: .This activity supports the professional development of underrepresented minorities and increases awareness of career and partnership opportunities within the climate, agriculture, food security and water sectors..Activities include:.In-person and virtual engagements facilitated between development practitioners, academic and professional organizations, and students from underrepresented minority backgrounds, including intersectional identities such as LGBTQI+ and persons with disabilities, that include technical presentations and professional development trainings.Trainings and resource materials, including on gender and social inclusion in food and water security programming, disseminated in various fora targeted at underrepresented minorities.Global and food security programming, events and opportunities promoted through digital and print materials targeted at minorities underrepresented in agriculture, natural resources, and related sciences, including integration of gender into that programming .A Global Empowerment Fellows Leadership Program implemented to prepare undergraduate and graduate students for international development fieldwork and global citizenship through training and experiential learning..Benefitting Countries: Global.