Improving Health Research and Evaluation Capacity within the Government of Tanzania under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) | CDC RFA GH15 158902CONT16

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The grant opportunity titled "Improving Health Research and Evaluation Capacity within the Government of Tanzania under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding action designed to support and extend existing work that strengthens Tanzania's ability to conduct health research, monitoring, and program evaluation in the context of PEPFAR-supported HIV/AIDS efforts. It is issued as a continuation award, meaning it is not a new open competition for first-time applicants; instead, it is meant to keep funding in place for organizations that were already funded under the earlier announcement CDC-RFA-GH15-1589. In practical terms, this type of award is typically used to maintain momentum of an ongoing project, retain trained staff and systems, and ensure that capacity-building investments continue to produce usable evidence for national HIV program decision-making.

This opportunity is categorized as "Continuation" and uses a "Cooperative Agreement" funding instrument. A cooperative agreement generally indicates a closer working relationship between the CDC and the recipient than a standard grant, with substantial CDC involvement expected during implementation. That often includes technical guidance, alignment with PEPFAR monitoring and evaluation expectations, collaboration on evaluation designs, support for data quality and analysis approaches, and coordination with national stakeholders. The activity category is listed broadly as "Health," and the CFDA number is 93.067, which corresponds to CDC global HIV/AIDS-related assistance.

Eligibility is effectively limited. While the listing shows "Eligible Applicants: Others," the description makes clear that the funds are intended only for grantees previously awarded under the original funding announcement (CDC-RFA-GH15-1589). That language is important because it signals a restricted continuation action rather than a public competition. Organizations that did not receive the earlier award would not be able to apply for this continuation funding.

The funding opportunity number is CDC RFA GH15 158902CONT16, which reflects that it is a continuation related to the GH15-1589 announcement. The record lists an original closing date of 2015-11-24 and a creation date of 2015-09-24, which places the administrative posting in late 2015. The award ceiling is shown as 0, which commonly appears in listings where the ceiling is not specified in the public synopsis, where the amount is determined through continuation increments rather than a new fixed competition, or where the system entry does not reflect a meaningful cap for the continuation action. The expected number of awards is not provided in the source data, which is consistent with a continuation notice where the recipient pool is already known and limited.

In terms of what the award is meant to accomplish, the title and PEPFAR framing indicate a focus on strengthening government capacity in health research and evaluation, likely including areas such as program evaluation skills, operational research, development and use of evaluation frameworks, and the ability to generate and interpret evidence to improve HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs. In a PEPFAR setting, this commonly involves improving the quality and use of routine health data, strengthening analytic capacity, supporting evaluation studies that answer implementation questions, and building systems that help government teams use findings to refine program strategies. While the synopsis does not list specific activities, the purpose implied by "research and evaluation capacity" typically centers on building sustainable government-led capabilities rather than running direct service delivery alone.

Overall, the key takeaway is that this is a CDC/PEPFAR continuation cooperative agreement focused on reinforcing and extending previously funded work to improve Tanzania government capacity for health research and evaluation, and it is restricted to organizations that already held awards under the earlier CDC-RFA-GH15-1589 announcement.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Improving Health Research and Evaluation Capacity within the Government of Tanzania under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.067.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2015-09-24.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-11-24. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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