amendment 03 - dhapp-baa-13-002 (pepfar funded).pdf

AMENDMENT 0003

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA)

Number DHAPP-BAA-13-002

“FY13 – FY14 Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program:

Military Specific HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, and Treatment Program for PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief)

Funded Countries”

The purpose of this Amendment 0003 is to incorporate the following:

NHRC/DHAPP is accepting “Concept Papers” for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region as described below through 05 March 2013 for first round consideration.

Eligible Applicants are requested to submit Concept Papers following the guidelines and format provided in the DHAPP BAA-13-002, Section IV.

Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region:

OHSS: $ 300,000

Proposals are requested to work with the militaries of Latin America (El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, and Dominican Republic) and the Caribbean (Barbados, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts and Antigua) in the provision of technical assistance in HIV policy development, implementation, and monitoring. The overall goal is long term capacity in health policy that addresses issues related to HIV and other cross-cutting areas such as gender, stigma and discrimination, health equity, access to health services, participation of PLHIV, leadership and institutional ownership as reflected by resources allocated and structural support provided for policy implementation and monitoring.

Improved regional coordination among militaries for best practices and strategies of implementation, communication of HIV-related stigma, gender norms and discrimination reduction efforts, improved access to services and ownership by militaries should be emphasized for improved response by militaries in the region.

Amendment #0003, DHAPP BAA-13-002 (FY13 – FY14 DHAPP: Military Specific HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, and Treatment Program for PEPFAR Funded Countries)

Proposals are requested that incorporate the following activities:

1. Compilation and review existing HIV/AIDS policies in selected countries and at the regional level.

a. Analysis of existing policies and stage of development or implementation with specific suggested revisions/steps for improvement.

2. Active support for the development of military specific HIV policies where lacking or requiring updates (taking into consideration other military and HIV policies that focus on key areas such as institutionalization of prevention, leadership involvement, reduction of stigma and discrimination, access/provision of voluntary HIV testing and counseling services, access/linkages to care and treatment, procedures for notification, military leadership responsibilities) and/or (where in existence) the development of an HIV policy implementation and monitoring plan for partner militaries (note: Spanish required for El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Dominican Republic)

a. Development of map and proposed materials that will be used to support the process in the various stages of development, implementation of monitoring plans.

3. Accompany countries in process of development, implementation and monitoring and provide iterative feedback to key stakeholders for understanding next step actions.

Coordinate closely (virtually and TBD in country) with partner militaries to encourage momentum and leadership support for policy activities.

4. Adaptation (and translation where required) of training materials from the 2012 PEPFAR Miami workshop for the purpose of training LAC partner militaries in all aspects of policy, implementation and monitoring plan development. Development of accompanying guides/tools for the development of implementation and monitoring plans.

5. Facilitation of a 3-day training on policy, implementation plan development

a. a. Policy experts/facilitators to lead/ facilitate training and small group breakout sessions

6. Document country progress to share with DHAPP on quarterly basis.

7. End of phase documents to DHAPP that include reports per country, copies of all documents, guides for development, implementation and monitoring developed in/with each partner military to DHAPP.