Achieving Global Health Security Through Strengthening Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Management Platforms in Liberia

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) expands national-to-subnational coordination to detect outbreaks and manage responses earlier, advance the National Public Health Institute of Liberia’s (NPHIL) broad vision for Liberia’s emergency response framework (ERF), and develop a national emergency management training program to support counties’ response capacity.

This is a fully competitive NOFO and eligibility is unrestricted, meaning any and all types of organizations and entities are eligible to apply. In addition, as may be required by host country laws, applicant is expected to comply with and document that it has satisfied all regulatory requirements of their governing entities that could otherwise compromise the integrity and resources provided by this program or make the conduct of expected activities under this award unable to be performed. Applicants must also meet the criteria in CDC’s review of risk posed by applicants to be eligible to receive funds under this NOFO. The Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding/Average One Year Award Amount/Approximate Average Award amount for this NOFO is $1,000,000. CDC will consider any application requesting an award higher than this amount as non-responsive, and it will receive no further review.Late submissions will be determined non-responsive unless a request for extension is approved following the procedure outlined in “Other Submission Requirements, Paper Submission”. Please see “Application and Submission Information” and “Submission Dates and Times” for the application deadline date. Please also see “Other Submission Requirements” for information on technical difficulties and paper submission. All requests to submit a paper application must be received at least three calendar days prior to the application deadline. CDC reserves the right to determine an application non-responsive as part of the Phase I review if the application does not respond to and falls outside the published scope of the NOFO as set out in the Background and CDC Project Description sub-sections within the Funding Opportunity Description section of this NOFO. CDC reserves the right to determine an application non-responsive if the Project Narrative file exceeds the 20-page limit. Although not required, the following four administrative materials may be included in the Project Narrative file and will not count toward the 20-page limit: 1) Table of Contents, 2) Cover or Title Page, 3) Non-Disclosure Statement, and 4) Acronym or Abbreviation List. All other content included in the Project Narrative file will count toward the 20-page limit. It is the responsibility of applicants to double-check for formatting issues that occur upon upload during application submission. If a formatting problem causes the narrative to exceed 20-pages, the application will be deemed non-responsive.

Shana Eatman DGHPNOFOs@cdc.gov