USAID/Tanzania Grants towards Caring for Children and Empowering Young People (C2EYP)

Deadline: 19 November 2014

The United States Agency for International Development Mission in Tanzania (USAID/Tanzania) anticipates a five-year cooperative agreement for a project entitled Caring for Children and Empowering Young People (C2EYP). The project targets the most vulnerable children (MVC) and young people, orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC).

Under this project, USAID seeks to enable more MVC and other young people to access services for improving health, nutrition, education, protection, livelihoods and psychosocial well-being. For achieving this, the project will build the capacity of caregivers to provide care and access to services for their children and young people. The program also seeks to improve and expand age-appropriate service utilization for children and young people, especially hard-to-reach children.

USAID is focusing the project in seventeen regions, divided preliminarily into five zones.

1. Lake: Geita, Tabora, Kagera, Mara, Mwanza, Simiyu
2. Southern Highlands: Mbeya, Rukwa, Ruvuma, Katavi
3. Central Dodoma: Dodoma, Iringa, Njombe, Singida
4. Coastal: Dar es Salaam, Unguja
5. Northern: Arusha

USAID/Tanzania intends to provide $65 million in total USAID funding for the life of the activity (five years). The period of performance anticipated is five (5) years.

Program Objectives

• Families are strengthened economically to provide for the needs of their children.
• Parents, caregivers and communities are skilled to provide healthy, safe and nurturing environments for vulnerable children.
• Increased most vulnerable children (MVC) utilization of age-appropriate essential services.
• Approaches for the most hard to reach vulnerable children.

Themes of the program

1. Facilitate the use of a Continuum of Care and well-functioning case management and referral system
2. Increase Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)
3. Local Ownership and Capacity Development
4. Address Gender and Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
5. Safeguard Children
6. Disability
7. Technology

Eligibility criteria

• Applicants must be from Tanzania.
• Any type of organization, large or small, commercial (for-profit) firms, faith-based, and non-profit organizations in partnerships or consortia, are eligible to compete.
• Potential new partners are encouraged to apply.

For more information visit grants.gov and search for funding opportunity number USAID-TANZANIA-14-000002-DRAFT-RFA.