Amplify Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health Activity (AMPLIFY-FP)) | RFI 624 18 000001

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The Amplify Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health Activity (AMPLIFY-FP) notice is a USAID/West Africa request for information (RFI), meaning it is strictly a market sounding exercise and not an open call for proposals. USAID is collecting feedback and ideas and is not accepting submissions as applications, not promising that a future funding opportunity will be released, and not committing to fund or reimburse any costs associated with preparing an RFI response. Any input provided is voluntary and cannot be used to create a binding agreement with the U.S. Government.

AMPLIFY-FP is described as USAID/West Africa Regional Health Office (RHO)'s flagship family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) effort for the region. The activity is designed to accelerate progress by emphasizing selected "high impact practices" (HIPs) in family planning and by helping countries advance the Ouagadougou Partnership goals, including the widely cited target of reaching 2.2 million additional family planning users by 2020. The program concept explicitly builds on prior regional investments and evidence, including lessons from the AgirPF project and other USAID-supported efforts, and it situates itself within a supportive policy environment shaped by recent regional milestones such as ECOWAS health ministers adopting task shifting policies (an approach that expands who can provide certain services, typically to address workforce shortages and improve access).

The core technical focus is replication and scale-up of proven FP high impact practices, with a deliberate emphasis on large urban and peri-urban centers where demand, population density, and service delivery constraints often make scale both feasible and urgent. The idea is not just to pilot approaches, but to expand and institutionalize them so they can be sustained within national systems and also serve as a model for broader regional uptake. Over the anticipated five-year implementation period, USAID expects that this scaling strategy would lead to meaningful increases in access to and use of voluntary family planning services across the target geographies.

Geographically, the concept targets four Ouagadougou Partnership countries: Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Niger, and Togo. The notice signals that results would be achieved through expanding selected HIPs within these countries, with the expectation that the approaches and lessons could inform programming beyond them across West Africa. While the detailed package of interventions is not spelled out in the RFI excerpt, the consistent theme is using evidence-based practices and prior learning to drive faster, broader adoption rather than reinventing new models.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed under USAID (West Africa USAID-Ghana) as a discretionary funding action with an intended instrument type of cooperative agreement, which typically implies substantial involvement by USAID during implementation (for example, in technical direction, collaboration, and oversight), though the RFI itself does not launch that award process. The source data references an award ceiling of USD 18,500,000, a CFDA listing of 98.001, and an original closing date for the RFI of 2017-10-20, which indicates the RFI response window has already passed even if the concept remains informative for understanding USAID's past or future direction.

Eligibility, in the event a formal solicitation were later released, is broad and includes both U.S. and non-U.S. entities such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private voluntary organizations (PVOs), public international organizations (PIOs), colleges and universities, and for-profit firms that are willing to forego profit. The notice also makes clear that faith-based and community organizations can be eligible if they fit within those categories. At the same time, it flags standard USAID expectations around organizational capacity: applicants would need established financial management systems, monitoring and evaluation capacity, and internal controls and policies that comply with U.S. Government requirements. Any eventual awardee would also undergo a responsibility determination by a warranted Agreement Officer, which can include a pre-award survey to verify financial, compliance, and management capabilities.

Overall, the RFI frames AMPLIFY-FP as a large, regionally significant family planning and reproductive health activity aimed at scaling evidence-based practices in urban and peri-urban settings across four West African countries, grounded in prior project experience and evolving regional policy support, and structured (if ultimately competed) as a cooperative agreement with stringent capacity and compliance expectations for implementing partners.

• The West Africa USAID-Ghana in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Amplify Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health Activity (AMPLIFY-FP))" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-10-05.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-10-20. (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 $18,500,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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