Request For Applications for a Local Umbrella Grants Management Organization

Request for Applications (RFA) in for a Local Umbrella Grants Management Organization (Word Version, Updated 13 May 2011)

Pre-Bidder's Questions and Answers (Word Version, 01 June 2011)

Pact in Swaziland Announcement: Umbrella Grants Management RFA

Pact's Community REACH HIV&AIDS Program is pleased to announce the release of a Request for Applications (RFA) for Umbrella Grants Management (UGM) Partners. The request for applications for UGM Partners indicates the availability of funding for local, Swazi organizations who demonstrate capacity to be Umbrella Grant Managers and providers of technical assistance to other local organizations. Pact will ensure that by the end of the five year Community REACH Agreement in March 2015 the organization will have received targeted capacity building and opportunity for hands on management of a cohort of organizations resulting in the successful applicant having:  (1) financial management, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting systems  (adapted from Pact’s tools and systems) in place suitable for use with  local organizations; (2)ability to manage and administer a sub-grant program (3)  ability to provide one-on-one technical assistance in Financial Management and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting to sub grantees.

Pending the availability of funding, Pact Swaziland anticipates awarding a UGM sub-grant through a cooperative agreement (hereafter called agreement) to fund one application submitted in response to this RFA. Applications for Umbrella Grants Management (UGM) Partner will be accepted in the form of a full proposal with supporting documents due no later than 5:00pm Swaziland time on 17 June 2011. The award under this RFA is anticipated to be issued by 30 September 2011 and the UGM Partner will start implementing by 01 October 2011. The initial award will be for 2 years, with the possibility of extension pending project success and availability of funds. The funding amount for UGM Partner is $175,000 per year. Applicants are required to focus only on costing activities associated with running the UGM activity. Applicants should use the Pact template attached in Annex 2 to develop the budget.  In addition, applicants should be aware that Pact will fund, through Pact’s own operating budget, technical assistance and management support to the UGM partner and implementing partners in financial management, grants management, and monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.  Therefore, the applicant should not budget for these costs but only focus on the UGM Partner costs.

Only registered local, Swazi organizations can apply to this RFA. Multi-lateral, regional, and international organizations are not eligible, such nationality being determined on the basis of the organisation's statutes which should demonstrate that it is governed by the national law of Swaziland. In this respect, any legal entity whose statutes have been established in another country cannot be considered an eligible local organisation, even if the statutes are registered locally or a “Memorandum of Understanding” has been concluded. Existing local partners receiving PEPFAR country funding and sub-partners receiving PEPFAR funding are eligible to apply under this RFA.