Strengthening HIV Strategic Health Management Information System (HMIS) Activities in the United Republic of Tanzania to Improve Informatics and Data Use within the Health Sector under the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

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	Federal Grant Title:	Strengthening HIV Strategic Health Management Information System (HMIS) Activities in the United Republic of Tanzania to Improve Informatics and Data Use within the Health Sector under the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
	CFDA Number:	93.067
	CFDA Description:	Global AIDS
	Federal Agency Name:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
	Category of Funding Activity:	Health
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	CDC-RFA-PS10-1066
	Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Feb 11, 2010
	Creation Date:	Feb 11, 2010
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Apr 10, 2010
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Apr 12, 2010
	Archive Date:	May 10, 2010
	Expected Number of Awards:	2
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$8,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$1,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$250,000
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Eligible applicants that can apply for this funding opportunity are listed below: Public nonprofit organizations Private nonprofit organizations For profit organizations Small, minority, women-owned business Universities Colleges Research institutions Hospitals Community-based organizations Faith-based organizations Federally recognized Indian tribal organizations Alaska Native tribal governments Indian tribes Tribal Epidemiology centers Indian tribal organizations State and local governments or their Bona Fide Agents (this includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau) Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with States) Non-domestic (non U.S.) entity A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state as eligible to submit an application under the state eligibility in lieu of a state application. If applying as a bona fide agent of a state or local government, a letter from the state or local government as documentation of the status is required. Attach with "Other Attachment Forms" when submitting via www.grants.gov.
Grant Description: The purpose of this program is to provide technical assistance to strengthen Health Management Information System (HMIS) capacity within all levels and units of the Government of the Republic of Tanzania's (GoT) Ministry of Social Health and Welfare (MOHSW) in order to:- Build on lessons learned and investments in the HIV/AIDS sub-sector to support national planning and harmonization of health sector information systems to achieve the goal of one data collection and dissemination system that meets the needs of all government, cooperating partner, non-governmental, and civil society institutions operating in the Tanzanian health sector.- Improve the capacity of the MOHSW to collect, manage, and analyze aggregate program monitoring and evaluation data to meet GoT, international, and cooperating partner reporting requirements. - Support the MOHSW in systems analysis, process design, vendor selection, and deployment of operational or transaction processing management systems supportive of standard operating procedures (SOPs) across the MOHSW.- Support the creation of a data warehouse, or analytical processing system, which brings together information from aggregate data collection systems, surveillance and evaluation studies, transactional systems and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data. This collection of data must be promoted/designed to enable data mining and detailed longitudinal and population-based analysis of multiple concurrent data sets to inform policy formulation, resource allocation, and decision making processes.- Support application of data analysis in dissemination papers, abstracts, and report cards. MOHSW dissemination of data should support status updates, stakeholder dialogue, and health services planning with all stakeholders at local, district, regional and national levels.- Support the use of policy analysis, projections, and modeling techniques to build evidence-based policy formulation, programmatic resource allocation, and decision making across the health sector and at all levels.
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