Call for Proposals: Muskoka Initiative Partnership Program - Closed

Table of Contents

• Eligibility
• Proposal assessment
• Application process
• Application form and Guidelines
• Deadline
• Review process
• Eligible countries
• Background information

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Partnerships with Canadians Branch (PWCB) is launching a $75 million call for projects over $500,000 to take a comprehensive and integrated approach to address maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), under its Partners for Development Program.

The objective of this call is to support Canada's Muskoka Initiative to achieve concrete development results that will reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality.

At the Muskoka 2010 G8 Summit, Canada championed a major initiative to improve maternal, newborn, and under-five child health in developing countries through which $1.1 billion is dedicated in new funding for MNCH.

Projects must align with the elements and principles of Canada's contribution to the Muskoka Initiative, which will focus its efforts along three key paths:

• Strengthening health systems to improve health service delivery at the district level by training more health workers and expanding access for mothers and children to needed health care facilities and interventions
• Improving nutrition by increasing access to healthful and nutritious food and needed nutritional supplements that help reduce mortality
• Addressing the leading diseases and illnesses that are killing mothers and their children

Projects must be implemented in eligible countries with high rates of maternal and child mortality.

This call will fund projects from Canadian organizations in partnership with organizations in developing countries. Projects must be completed by December 31, 2014. CIDA will contribute $500,000 and more to projects on a cost-shared basis of up to 3:1. For example, partners would contribute at least $500,000 to a $2 million project. Overhead will be included in CIDA's contribution.

With this call, CIDA will:

• Concentrate half of PWCB funding in the eligible countries of focus identified in the table
• Concentrate 80 percent of funding for MNCH in Africa

For more information, please send your email to correspondence.pwcb@acdi-cida.gc.ca or download the Partners for Development Program Application Guidelines (PDF - 439 KB, 34 pages).

Eligibility

Organizations submitting proposals must be incorporated in Canada and have at least three years' experience managing and delivering maternal and child health initiatives in developing countries.

Proposal assessment

PWCB will assess all completed proposals on a comparative basis against the following five partnership principles, which are explained further in the Partners for Development Program Application Guidelines:

1. Sound governance
2. Support of Canadians
3. Relevance to CIDA mandate and coherence with Government of Canada policy
4. Results
5. Development effectiveness

The proposal must meet mandatory principles 1 and 2 in order to be further assessed against principles 3 to 5.

Application process

1. Please review the Partners for Development Program Application Guidelines document thoroughly.
2. Create or update your organizational profile through PARTNERS@CIDA.
3. Upload the mandatory organization and proposal documents, as listed in the supporting documentation section of the application form, including the completed application form to your profile on PARTNERS@CIDA. Supporting documentation that is not available in an electronic format should be scanned and uploaded to PARTNERS@CIDA. As of October 28, 2010, organizations will be able to upload documents to PARTNERS@CIDA.

PWCB will not accept application forms or supporting documentation by mail or by fax.

Application form and Guidelines

• Application Form (RTF format)
• Application Guidelines (PDF - 439 KB, 34 pages)
• Interim Haiti Recovery Commission: New Project Concept Note (RTF format)
• Budget Table Template (XLS format)

Deadline

Completed applications must be submitted by 12:00 noon PST (Pacific Standard Time), January 31, 2011.

Review process

To ensure transparency and fairness to all applicants, CIDA will not discuss applications until all organizations have been notified of decisions regarding their proposals. However, applicants can submit questions regarding the process via email: correspondence.pwcb@acdi-cida.gc.ca. CIDA will post all questions and answers concerning the guidelines on Frequently Asked Questions. Questions will be acknowledged within one working day. Information posted on CIDA's website, Application Guidelines, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section CIDA's website, represent the only official interpretation of the application process.

Applicants that do not meet principles 1 and 2 will be notified in writing immediately. All other applicants will be advised of the results by May 31, 2011, with the exception of certain proposals requesting more than $20 million that may require additional review steps prior to approval. A PWCB officer will then contact successful applicants to discuss the contract details. PWCB will also send a letter to all unsuccessful candidates to inform them of the decision and any areas for future improvement.

Please note that proposals for any projects that will be implemented in Haiti also require endorsement by the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC). To facilitate this process, organizations must fill in and upload to PARTNERS@CIDA the IHRC New Project Concept Note along with the completed application form and other mandatory/supporting documents. CIDA will submit the form to the IHRC on behalf of the organization.

Eligible countries

Countries of Focus in bold

• Afghanistan
• Angola
• Bangladesh
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Burkina Faso
• Burma (Myanmar)
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Congo
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Djibouti
• Equatorial Guinea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• India
• Kenya
• Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mozambique
• Nepal
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Pakistan
• Papua New Guinea
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Timor-Leste
• Togo
• Uganda
• Tanzania
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Background information

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (CIDA)

*If your project has a Haiti component, please see the Haiti Recovery and Reconstruction background information.

Information Updates

1. The list of eligible countries has been revised to include additional countries.
2. Review process: Applicants that do not meet principles 1 and 2 will be notified in writing immediately. All other applicants will be advised of the results by May 31, 2011, with the exception of certain proposals requesting more than $20 million that may require additional review steps prior to approval.
3. Footnote 2 on page 26 has been deleted. Cost-sharing contributions to the project must be obtained from Canadian sources other than the federal government and may include other levels of government.
4. Guidelines Section 3.3.1 should read ". . . that the average total revenue for the last three years is greater than the average annual amount requested from PWCB."
5. The anti-corruption, code of ethics, and gender policy requirements may be substituted with a reasonable equivalent and the inclusion of a clear explanation. Applicants that subscribe to the policies of another organization may provide a note naming the policy of that organization.
6. Please disregard the instructions in Section 6.3.2.2 of the Application Guidelines regarding in-kind contributions. Section 6.3.2.2 of the Application Form provides the correct instructions: Indicate the value of each type of in-kind contribution raised for international development in each of the past two years.

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