Opportunity Information: Apply for 0032021
The Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) opportunity is a PEPFAR Small Grants call run through the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Mission to Zimbabwe, focused on strengthening HIV programming by putting community voices and real client experiences at the center of service improvement. The overall idea is to fund local, community-driven groups to routinely collect and share structured feedback about how HIV services actually work on the ground, then use that information to identify persistent barriers and push for practical fixes. PEPFAR intends to support at least one CLM initiative in each of Zimbabwe's 10 provinces so that monitoring coverage is geographically broad and not limited to a few high-profile areas.
A major priority in this grant is improving reach and responsiveness for underserved and marginalized populations who often face stigma, discrimination, or access barriers in health facilities. Proposals that focus on groups with high unmet need are explicitly prioritized, including men who have sex with men, transgender and intersex populations, bisexual and queer women, sex workers, people with disabilities, religious minorities, youth ages 15 to 29, and people who use or inject drugs, among others. The grant is designed to ensure these constituencies are represented in the feedback loop, and to make sure the resulting recommendations are grounded in the realities these communities face when seeking HIV prevention and treatment services.
The work funded under this opportunity centers on monitoring and documenting client experience and service quality across PEPFAR-supported differentiated service delivery (DSD) districts. Expected deliverables include collecting and documenting challenges, best practices, and specific issues observed at facilities using standardized tools, with attention to how experiences differ for specific population groups. Grantees are expected to monitor HIV testing services as well as HIV treatment services, including aspects tied to retention and viral load services, and to assess service provider perceptions, attitudes, practices, and overall client satisfaction. In addition to monitoring, the grant also expects demand creation activities that encourage uptake of HIV testing services and viral load testing, recognizing that improving outcomes is not only about service availability but also about trust, awareness, and willingness to use services.
A key part of the model is routine, structured engagement with facility and community accountability mechanisms. Grantees are expected to participate in existing health facility feedback structures (such as health center committees) and to help establish facility feedback meetings where none currently exist. The grant also includes an advocacy component at the site level, described as building "social contracts with duty bearers," meaning the community monitoring findings should translate into concrete commitments and follow-up actions with those responsible for service delivery and oversight. Grantees must share results and feedback monthly with PEPFAR and other stakeholders and provide actionable recommendations rather than simply reporting problems. They will also participate in meetings with the PEPFAR CLM Task Force and the national CLM steering committee to discuss findings and progress at provincial and national levels.
The opportunity is structured so that local monitoring results feed into a national learning and accountability process. PEPFAR is supporting an Advocacy Core Team (ACT) to provide capacity-building support to selected grantees and to aggregate CLM findings across the country. Those aggregated results are shared through a national CLM steering committee convened by Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Child Care and the National AIDS Council. ACT, in partnership with PEPFAR, MOHCC, and NAC, will conduct quarterly reviews of client feedback from all stakeholders, including small grant recipients, to help identify recurring system-level issues affecting uptake of HIV prevention and treatment services and to guide corrective action at higher levels of the health system.
Grantees are expected to use specific CLM models and tools, including a community scoping tool, a community treatment observatory model and related tools, and a digital app that includes scorecard and dashboard functions (with dashboards generated on the back end). Importantly, the grant emphasizes that CLM data must provide "added value" and should not duplicate routine program data that PEPFAR already collects. In practice, that means focusing on information that routine reporting often misses, such as patient experience at the facility, barriers and enablers to access, retention challenges, stigma and discrimination concerns, and other qualitative and quantitative insights that help explain why services are or are not being used. The grant also underscores that monitoring should be routine and continuous, supporting follow-up and iterative improvement so the approach is sustainable rather than a one-time assessment.
Eligible applicants include registered local community-based organizations and civil society groups, including networks of key populations, people living with HIV, people with disabilities, and other community entities that collect quantitative and qualitative data on HIV services and whose mission aligns with HIV programming. The funding is intended for not-for-profit, community-driven efforts that serve the broader community where the work is funded. Eligible organization types include civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations, traditional community groups and faith-based organizations, and public or private educational institutions. Applicants with demonstrated experience working with sexual minority groups and other underserved populations are especially encouraged, consistent with the grant's prioritization of communities facing the highest barriers.
There are several strict eligibility and exclusion rules. Only organizations registered with the Government of Zimbabwe are eligible. Applicants must show experience successfully implementing HIV-related programs and must have an established office in the province where they are applying to implement CLM, in place for at least 12 months prior to submission. An organization may apply for more than one district or province, but it can receive only one CLM award. Organizations that already have CLM funding through COP20 resources are not eligible, and PEPFAR-funded implementing partners or sub-awardees that currently provide site-level service delivery are also not eligible, reflecting the program's intent to keep monitoring independent from direct service implementers.
Administratively, applicants must submit through Grants.gov and complete standard U.S. government registration requirements. Organizations need a Unique Entity Identifier (noted in the opportunity as a DUNS or related identifier) and must have an active registration in SAM.gov to be eligible for an award. Because validation can take weeks, the opportunity warns applicants to start Grants.gov and related registrations early to avoid missing the deadline. The application package includes an application template and budget template, along with required federal forms (SF-424, SF-424A, SF-424B) and instructions for completing them, with templates available via Grants.gov and the U.S. Embassy website in Zimbabwe.
From the funding details provided, this is a grant opportunity in the health category (CFDA 19.029) with an award ceiling of $26,500 and an anticipated eight awards under the listed notice. The opportunity was created October 14, 2021, with an original closing date of November 20, 2021, under Funding Opportunity Number 0032021.Apply for 0032021
- The Department of State, U.S. Mission to Zimbabwe in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Community-Led Monitoring (CLM)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.029.
- This funding opportunity was created on Oct 14, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 20, 2021. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $26,500.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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