Strengthening immunization program implementation in sub-national consequential geographies

The purpose of this NOFO is to increase immunization program capacity in high priority countries and targeted sub-national areas to identify underserved populations and develop tailored interventions to vaccinate underserved populations; implement comprehensive vaccine preventable disease (VPD) surveillance systems; improve preparedness and response to outbreaks of VPDs; and strengthen quality and sustainability of immunization delivery systems. This cooperative agreement will address targeted sub-national areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Brazil, Indonesia, and the...

Ministries of Health (MOH) are eligible to apply and should follow instructions for Block 9 of the SF424. They must select option X: Other from the drop-down list in block 9. The MOH applicant will fill in the Other field. The applicant should describe their organization as a MOH.Public International Organizations (PIOs) are eligible to apply for this NOFO.All applications will be reviewed for responsiveness: Applicants are required to apply for work under at least one country component and may apply for multiple country components. For each country component, the applicant must submit separate project and budget narrative. The work plan should be included with the project narrative for each country component, as described in section D. Required Registrations, 11. Work Plan. The itemized country-specific budget narrative should be submitted as an attachment using the naming convention and guidance in section D. Required Registrations, 12. Budget Narrative. Applications not including country-specific project narratives with work plan, and country-specific budget narratives, will be non-responsive and not reviewed.Late submissions will be non-responsive and not be reviewed further. See section D. Required Registrations, part 4. Submission Dates and Times, for the application deadline. See section 15. d. Technical difficulties and 15. e. Paper Submission for additional information. Requests for paper application must be received 3 days prior to the application deadline.The applicant’s proposed budget for year one must not exceed the estimated annual funding of each component listed in section B. Award Information. If a funding amount exceeds the estimated amount of the country component, the application will be considered non-responsive and not reviewed. Applicants must prepare a single application including all countries for which they wish to apply. The application must specify the country on the title page of each project narrative. Applicants must specify the country(ies) in the project title in Block 15 of the SF424. Applicants must use the SF424 at link: http://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/SF424_2_1-V2.1.pdf. Failure to indicate the country on the title page of the project narrative will result in non-responsive determination.Applicants must abide by the page number limitation in section D. Required Registrations, 10. Project Narrative. Any pages above the number of pages listed for the project narrative will not be reviewed.Appendices must have page numbers and be identified in the Table of Contents as appendices.

Robert Linkins RLinkins@cdc.gov