Innovation Health Practices | BAA GH OAA 2023

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USAID's Innovation Health Practices opportunity is a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) designed to bring in a wide range of partners to jointly develop, test, and expand new research and development solutions that can reduce disease and prevent deaths worldwide, with a strong emphasis on improving health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Rather than funding a single pre-defined program, USAID is looking for organizations to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) and then work collaboratively with the agency to shape strong, practical ideas into real-world interventions. The focus is on innovative health practices and novel tools or approaches that can accelerate progress and help improvements last over time, especially in settings where health systems face resource constraints.

A central feature of this BAA is co-creation and co-design. USAID is intentionally structuring the opportunity to maximize joint problem-solving with selected partners so that project concepts, methods, and implementation plans are built together, not simply proposed and then handed off. The aim is to produce higher-quality partnerships and better technical solutions while using time and resources more efficiently. USAID is specifically seeking new applications of science, research and development, and partnership models in global health that offer strong value to the U.S. Government, which typically means solutions that are impactful, scalable, and cost-effective relative to alternatives.

Eligibility is broadly open (unrestricted), meaning both for-profit and non-profit entities, and both public and private organizations, can participate as long as they meet any requirements described in the full announcement. USAID also clearly signals that it wants to expand beyond its usual partner base by welcoming non-traditional USAID partners and prioritizing the participation of local organizations in LMICs. This includes local private sector actors, faith-based organizations, and other community-rooted institutions, with the goal of increasing local leadership and ensuring that people closest to the problems have a stronger voice in designing solutions.

Another major theme is co-investing. USAID is looking for partners willing to align goals and share responsibility, risk, and resources. Contributions are not limited to cash; they can include in-kind support, technical expertise, intellectual property, brand value, coordination capacity, and access to key networks, locations, data, or decision-makers. Importantly, USAID is not requiring equal cost-sharing. Instead, it is seeking contributions that make sense for the project and reflect each partner's comparative advantage, so the combined effort is stronger than what any party could achieve alone.

From an administrative standpoint, this is categorized as a science and technology/research and development funding activity, and awards are expected to be made as cooperative agreements, which generally means substantial involvement by the government during project development and execution. The opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number BAA GH OAA 2023, with a long open period: it was created on February 21, 2023 and has an original closing date of February 20, 2028. USAID anticipates about three awards, and the listed award ceiling is up to $1,000,000,000, indicating that the agency is leaving room for potentially large-scale, high-impact efforts depending on what is co-designed and negotiated through the BAA process.

• The Agency for International Development in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Innovation Health Practices" 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 Feb 21, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 20, 2028.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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