USAID Soroka
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- 72068724RFA00008
- Agency
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US Mission in Madagascar
Overseas Missions, US Agency for International Development
- Applications due
- Award size
- $5,000,000 to $7,500,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Health
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The USAID SOROKA activity is a $7.5 million, five-year cooperative agreement to advance the health of the Malagasy people through improvements in public health surveillance, operational research, and data utilization. The program aims to enhance the Ministry of Public Health's capacity to detect global health threats, conduct emergency outbreak response, implement locally-led research and evaluations, and use epidemiological data for decision-making. Key focus areas include malaria, maternal and child health, water/sanitation/hygiene, and global health security. The opportunity is restricted to local Malagasy entities that have received less than $25 million in USAID funding over the past five years. Applications must include technical and business proposals, monitoring and evaluation plans, and detailed budgets, and are due by February 10, 2025.
Originally planned to run from October 2024 to September 2029, the SOROKA solicitation has been suspended and subsequently cancelled due to an Executive Order reevaluating U.S. foreign aid. No applications will be accepted, and interested parties should direct questions to the USAID/Madagascar Agreement Officer.
Synopsis
SOROKA is a Malagasy word which constitutes the root of the verb "misoroka", meaning "to prevent", corresponding to the aim of surveillance. SOROKA can be the acronym of the specific objectives of the project: Surveillance, Operational Research, and Optimization of Knowledge-sharing for Action activity.
The SOROKA activity is expected to be a $7.5 million award for five years from Oct 2024 to Sept 2029. SOROKA's main objective is to advance the health of the Malagasy people through improvements in capacity-building and coordination and execution of data collection, management, synthesis, and use for public health action. Following the RISE project, SOROKA will enhance local capacity and expand leadership within the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) to detect threats to global health security, and to plan and conduct emergency outbreak response. It will reinforce the country's capacity to plan, implement, and disseminate locally led research and evaluations, and increase public sector capacity to use epidemiologic and surveillance data for public health action.
SOROKA will be the main activity of USAID/Madagascar's Health Office for research on malaria, MNCH (mother, neonatal, and child health), WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), and GHS (global health security), for program evaluation, biological surveillance including AMR (antimicrobial resistance), emergency responses to health threats and institutionalization of epidemiology and laboratory data use for decision making. SOROKA will also provide targeted and need-based cross-sectorial training for the MOPH staff throughout its implementation. In general, SOROKA is intended to cover all HPN program elements, particularly malaria, MNCH, GHS and WASH.
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