Strengthening the South African National Department of Health (NDOH) to implement and evaluate evidence-based public health program, surveillance and disease control efforts under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This funding opportunity is a continuation cooperative agreement released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through its Center for Global Health. It is titled "Strengthening the South African National Department of Health (NDOH) to implement and evaluate evidence-based public health program, surveillance and disease control efforts under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" and it sits within the broader public health and HIV response framework supported by PEPFAR. In practical terms, the opportunity focuses on helping South Africa's National Department of Health build and sustain the capacity needed to run large-scale, evidence-based public health programs, improve public health surveillance systems, and strengthen disease control efforts, with a strong connection to HIV/AIDS program priorities and related public health threats.

The award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which usually means CDC expects to have substantial involvement in the work beyond simply providing funds. Cooperative agreements are commonly used when the funder will provide ongoing technical input, guidance on monitoring and evaluation, alignment with national and international standards, and coordination support with other implementing partners. The opportunity is listed as a continuation, signaling it is meant to extend or continue work that is already underway rather than start a brand-new standalone initiative. That typically implies established implementers, existing program structures, and ongoing CDC-NDOH collaboration where the next funding period supports refinement, scale-up, and performance improvement based on prior results.

The core purpose is to strengthen NDOH implementation and evaluation of evidence-based public health programming. "Evidence-based" here points to interventions and approaches grounded in data, scientific findings, and proven practice, rather than ad hoc activities. The opportunity emphasizes not only delivering services or interventions, but also building the systems that make those interventions measurable and sustainable: surveillance, monitoring, evaluation, and disease control operations. Surveillance in this context generally includes the collection, analysis, interpretation, and use of health data to guide decisions. Disease control efforts could include outbreak detection and response, targeted prevention strategies, and improvements in national and subnational systems that track disease trends and program performance. Under the PEPFAR umbrella, this often relates directly or indirectly to HIV case surveillance, program coverage monitoring, data quality systems, laboratory networks, and the ability to detect and respond to co-infections and other conditions that affect people living with HIV.

Administratively, the opportunity is identified by Funding Opportunity Number "CDC RFA GH13-133704CONT17" and is categorized under the activity area "Health" with CFDA number 93.067, which is commonly associated with CDC global HIV/AIDS activities. The posting shows an expected number of awards of 10, indicating CDC anticipated multiple funded partners or multiple continuing projects under the same program umbrella. The award ceiling is listed as 0, which generally means the public notice did not specify a maximum award amount in the summary field; actual budgets are often determined through the continuation process, approved workplans, and availability of funds. The opportunity was created on September 22, 2016, with an original closing date of November 22, 2016, reflecting the application window for that cycle.

Eligibility is described broadly as "Others" with an instruction to consult an additional eligibility text field for clarification, which suggests eligibility may have been limited to specific entities such as current recipients, nominated partners, or organizations meeting particular criteria defined in the full announcement. That is consistent with continuation opportunities, where eligibility is frequently tied to existing awardees or pre-identified implementing partners who are already engaged in the program and positioned to continue the work without disruption.

Taken together, the opportunity is best understood as CDC, through PEPFAR support, continuing to invest in the institutional and technical capacity of South Africa's NDOH to run high-impact public health programs backed by strong data systems. The emphasis on implementation plus evaluation signals an intention to improve not only what is delivered, but also how well results are measured and used for decision-making. The expected outcome is a stronger national public health apparatus that can plan, implement, monitor, and adapt HIV-related and broader disease control activities using reliable surveillance data and proven public health practices, in coordination with CDC and other stakeholders.

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