REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP): RADxAR TB Community Engagement for Improved TB Diagnosis
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP): RADxAR TB Community Engagement for Improved TB Diagnosis
The Aurum Institute, with support from the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), is implementing a multi-country initiative to accelerate equitable access to near-point-of-care (near-POC) diagnostics for tuberculosis (TB) in high-burden settings.
Near-POC diagnostics can significantly reduce delays in diagnosis and treatment, improve patient outcomes, and strengthen health system performance. However, the successful introduction and scale-up of these tools depends not only on technology and systems, but on community awareness, advocacy, trust, demand, and accountability.
Communities, community-based and civil society organisations (CBOs and CSOs) are therefore positioned as core partners in this initiative and will play a central role in shaping how TB is viewed as well as how TB diagnostics are understood, accessed, and experienced at community level.</p><p>This RFP invites experienced community organisations to join the consortium and lead structured, community-driven engagement, monitoring, and advocacy activities in support of the TB cascade of care, including near-POC diagnostic introduction.
In addition, this initiative is intentionally aligned with upcoming or ongoing updates to TB/HIV guidelines and national strategic plans, and financing discussions such and national budgeting and Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (GC8) planning processes.
Community-generated evidence and lived experience will be critical to informing how TB service delivery gaps, including diagnostic access and patient pathways are reflected in future national planning and financing discussions.
Through this project, community partners will help ensure that community priorities and implementation realities meaningfully inform dialogue at country level.
Community partners will be selected within these countries and will work closely with local communities, health facilities, and national stakeholders.
Community partners selected through this RFP will become formal consortium partners, contributing directly to implementation, learning, and accountability processes.
Purpose of the RFP
The purpose of this RFP is to identify community-based and civil society organisations that can:
1. Engage national processes for product adoption, planning and financing
2. Support constructive advocacy with health services and policymakers
3. Strengthen community understanding of TB service delivery including the acceptance of near-POC diagnostics
4. Support appropriate demand and uptake of TB services, particularly active case finding
5. Generate structured community feedback on access, acceptability, and quality of TB services
6. Contribute to community-led monitoring (CLM) and accountability
Community engagement is treated as part of a multistakeholder approach to access to health services, rather than a standalone activity.
This RFP is open to community-based and civil society organisations based in the following countries:
South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Uganda, and Ethiopia.
This form is for organisations wishing to submit a short Expression of Interest (EOI) to participate as a community partner. Full details are available in the RFP document.
Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWEuz0G_IocUFAH7HlzW7Wk71ob5ute61U-7KrO8DZYvByaA/viewform
