USAID's Dianna Lightfoot explores examples of successful faith-based organization partnerships with USAID and shares resources to help organizations partner with USAID.

1. USAID Global Health
CCIH 2019

2. “The goal of foreign assistance is to end the need for its existence”
-USAID Administrator Ambassador Mark Green
Focus on Faith-Based and Community-Based Organizations Partnerships
• Since 1961, USAID has worked with faith and community based organizations
• You are indispensable partners in our effort to save lives, reduce poverty, and strengthen communities to assist in
humanitarian crises
• The Bureau for Global Health is a core part of USAID with offices in the following areas:
– Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
– HIV/AIDS
– Infectious Disease
– Population and Reproductive Health
– Health Systems
– Center for Innovation and Impact
• Each office engages with Faith and Community-based organizations

3. Examples of Successful Partnerships
– The Nigerian Inter-Faith Action Association (NIFAA), “a Christian-Muslim faith-based
partnership, unique in its national reach and implementation, trains and empowers
Nigerian faith leaders to be at the forefront in the fight against poverty and disease and
advocacy regarding poverty reduction and disease control and eradication”, with focus
action issues being malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and polio.
– A key partner of NIFAA implemented the Faiths United for Health campaign (2009-10) to
train 300,000 religious leaders to promote the use of antimalarial bed nets. An independent
evaluation of this campaign showed that reported net usage was up from 25-50%.
– Sierra Leone: World Hope International: “Preventing Ebola Through Faith and Cultural
Leadership Project” worked with local faith and community leaders to support the Ebola
prevention campaign and support safe burial practices to prevent the further spread of
Ebola. They trained teams on how to perform safe and dignified to ensure that religious
and cultural traditions were respected

4. Christian Connections for International Health
(CCIH)
Grants to FBOs under Advancing Partners and Communities (APC)
umbrella
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Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB)
• Goal: Build the global evidence base that
FBOs provide critical services for FP/HTSP.
• Created low-literacy faith-based materials
• Goal: Integrate Healthy Timing and Spacing
of Pregnancies (HTSP) into existing church
health structures and facilities.
• Implemented a cascaded FP training with
Church of Uganda leadership and health
facility staff in four dioceses.

5. Administration Support
USAID/Global Health’s priorities for faith and community engagement include:
1. Becoming a better bridge between FBOs and USG
2. Increasing capacity of FBOs to better compete for funding
3. Eliminating barriers to competing for funding
4. Increasing collaboration among organizations like yours to address some of world’s
greatest needs
With these goals in mind, your partnership is critical.
2018 Executive Order increased focus and strength to USAID FBO
partnerships

6. Identifying Partnering Opportunities
The Journey to Self-Reliance and Sustainability
The New Partnerships Initiative focuses on working with new or under-utilized smaller,
mid-sized organizations and indigenous groups around the world.
• USAID has 12,000 + projects in (5) Regions of the world: Europe, Eurasia, Middle East, Sub-
Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
• 75% of our workforce is overseas; two-thirds of funding is in the field
• USAID has more than 9,000 staff working around the world with Missions in more than 80
countries and programs in more than 100 countries.
USAID Missions: https://www.usaid.gov/mission-directory

7. Identifying Funding Opportunities
Missions Websites
http:www.usaid.gov/missions/
Country Strategies
https:www.usaid.gov/results-and-data/planning/country-strategies-cdcs
A Systematic Approach
Four Step Work Plan: Summary
“Identifying Funding Opportunities to Partner with USAID” and “Understanding Types of Awards”
http://www.usaid.gov/work-usaid/get-grant-or-contract/trainings-how-work-usaid

8. To be eligible to apply for U.S. federal awards (grants or contracts), entities
need to register for three things:
1. DUNS Number
2. CAGE or NCAGE
a. U.S.-based organizations need a Commercial and Governmental
Entity (CAGE) Code
b. Non US-based organizations need a NATO Commercial and
Governmental Entity (NCAGE) Code
3. SAM (System for Award Management)
Registration Requirements

9. Sustainability: Investing with Faith-Based Now
and For the Future
USAID-Global Health Goals include building capacity and reducing disease in
resilient, sustainable health systems.
• Building self-reliance and sustainability takes time and commitment
• Investments should focus on changing systems of care in-country with
those most invested in their communities long term
• USAID recognizes faith-based groups are long term partners
• Investments now pay dividends in the future