Family health initiatives II

The project, in accordance with A.I.D."s four priority emphases, will: (1) promote policy dialogue aimed at formulating or strengthening host country population policies and at reviewing laws and directives affecting FP service delivery; (2) build indigenous capacities by providing management-oriented long- and short-term TA and training to public and private sector development planners and service delivery managers and by supplying basic equipment and supplies such as examining tables and contraceptives; (3) transfer technology through population and FP information, training, and operational program review by direct hire and cooperating agency advisors; and (4) study ways to stimulate use of the private sector to increase the delivery of contraceptives. Proposals for individual subprojects (SP"s), which will have a funding limit of $3 million, will be accepted from host country government agencies, universities, statistical institutions, research centers, and other public and private institutions or companies, and from international PVO"s working in the country. Priority will be given to countries which have a high overall priority for A.I.D., have large populations and high population growth rates, are in the early stage of population program development, lack a bilateral program, are ready to make a significant gain in policy development and service commitment, and have good absorptive capacity. SP selection will also depend in part on the stage of A.I.D. programming in candidate countries. SP content will depend on the status of a country"s population policy development. All SP"s will take into consideration what other donors and centrally funded cooperating agencies are doing, as well as the potential for programmatic impact, replication, and cost-effectiveness. It is expected that SP"s will be allocated as follows: policy development, 10%; information/education, 15%; training and personnel development, 20%; public and private sector service delivery, including contraceptive commodities, 50%; operations research, and data collection, analysis, and dissemination, 5%. Some 3-4 major SP"s per year are anticipated; provision is also made for grants, not classified as SP"s, to satisfy small, ad hoc targets of opportunity.