Evidence to Action for Strengthened Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services for Women and Girls (E2A) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Evidence to Action for Strengthened Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services for Women and Girls (E2A) opportunity is a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) discretionary funding announcement intended to support overseas health programming focused on improving family planning and broader reproductive health (FP/RH) services for women and girls. The funding opportunity number is SOL OAA 11 000041, and the mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically means USAID expects to have substantial involvement in the design, implementation, oversight, and learning agenda of the project rather than simply issuing a grant with minimal federal participation. The announcement listed here reflects Amendment No. 01, characterized specifically as a Questions and Answers update, indicating USAID issued clarifications to applicant questions after the original posting to reduce ambiguity and align proposals with USAID expectations.

This opportunity was posted on March 16, 2011, with a creation date of April 18, 2011, and it maintained a closing date of May 2, 2011 (the original and current closing dates are the same). USAID anticipated making one award, with an estimated total funding level of $230,000,000. Unusually, the award ceiling and award floor are both stated as $230,000,000, which signals USAID was planning a single, large, full-value award rather than a range of award sizes or multiple awards. The activity category is Health, and the CFDA number listed is 98.001, which corresponds to USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas, reinforcing that the work is intended for international programming rather than domestic U.S. services.

Applicants were expected to contribute cost sharing or matching, as the announcement explicitly notes a cost-sharing or matching requirement. In practice, this means the selected recipient would need to provide a defined portion of total project costs from non-federal sources (for example, cash contributions, third-party in-kind support, or recipient-provided resources), consistent with the terms USAID sets in the award and the detailed announcement. Because cost share requirements can influence eligibility and competitiveness, the Q&A amendment likely addressed how cost share would be calculated, what kinds of contributions would be allowable, and how applicants should document those commitments.

Eligibility was broad across several organizational types that commonly implement USAID global health programs. Eligible applicants included nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), private institutions of higher education, and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. This mix suggests USAID was open to awards to large international NGOs, university-affiliated implementing groups (where permitted by eligibility language), and commercial entities with relevant technical and operational capacity, with the expectation that the prime recipient could assemble a strong consortium of partners to cover service delivery support, training and capacity building, systems strengthening, monitoring and evaluation, and knowledge translation.

While the excerpt does not provide the programmatic technical narrative beyond the title, the framing "Evidence to Action" strongly signals an emphasis on taking proven or promising practices in family planning and reproductive health and moving them into real-world scale through practical implementation support. In USAID terms, that usually involves strengthening service delivery quality, improving access and equity for women and girls, building local capacity, and using data and learning to refine approaches and accelerate uptake. The "strengthened services" language points toward interventions that improve how FP/RH services are delivered within health systems, such as provider training, quality improvement, supportive supervision, commodity and supply chain coordination, demand generation linkages, youth-friendly and gender-responsive service approaches, and integration with other health services where appropriate. The inclusion of "women and girls" highlights an intent to address the specific barriers faced by adolescents and young women, which can include stigma, lack of confidentiality, limited mobility, inadequate information, and gaps in provider skills for serving younger clients.

Because this is a cooperative agreement, applicants would typically be expected to propose not only a technical approach but also a management and collaboration plan that accommodates active USAID engagement. That could include joint work planning with USAID missions, alignment with country strategies, coordination with host-country governments and other donors, and a clear monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) approach to ensure the project generates usable evidence and translates it into operational guidance and scaled practice. The amendment labeled "Questions and Answers" implies that USAID provided written responses to applicant inquiries, which often cover details like allowable costs, anticipated geographic scope, expectations for partnerships and subcontracting, evaluation requirements, reporting, branding and marking, and clarifications on how USAID would judge technical merit and cost realism.

The agency contact noted for support in accessing the full announcement is Alisa Dunn, identified as the Agreement Officer, with communication by email. This indicates the primary point of contact for administrative and contractual matters, including access issues and potentially formal questions about the solicitation process. Overall, the opportunity describes a single, large-scale USAID investment using a cooperative agreement structure to support evidence-driven improvement and expansion of family planning and reproductive health services for women and girls, with cost sharing required and eligibility open to major nonprofit, academic, and certain for-profit implementers capable of operating at significant scale overseas.

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