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The USAID/Guatemala "Strengthening Care and Treatment Cascade" opportunity is a draft Program Description announcing an upcoming, competitively awarded Cooperative Agreement focused on the health sector, specifically within the HIV/AIDS program area. The draft signals USAID/Guatemala's intent to fund a project designed to strengthen the HIV care and treatment cascade, which typically refers to improving performance across the continuum from diagnosis and linkage to care through treatment initiation, retention, and viral suppression. While the draft notice does not provide technical program details, geographic focus, or specific target populations, the title and activity category clearly indicate an emphasis on improving system and service delivery results related to HIV treatment outcomes.

This notice is not the final Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). Instead, it functions as a request for input from potentially interested organizations ahead of the final solicitation. USAID/Guatemala asks interested parties to submit a short response (no more than three pages, formatted in 12-point Times New Roman) addressing three points: first, whether and how likely the organization is to submit an application once the final NOFO is released; second, any feedback the organization has regarding cost share expectations (for example, whether cost share requirements would affect feasibility, what level might be realistic, or what types of contributions could be offered); and third, compliance with the submission instructions and deadline. Responses must be emailed to guatemalaproposals@usaid.gov no later than June 28, 2017 at 7:00 a.m. Guatemala time, indicating this is a time-sensitive market research and planning step for USAID.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, the opportunity is categorized as discretionary and will be implemented through a Cooperative Agreement, meaning USAID anticipates substantial involvement during implementation (often through collaboration on technical direction, monitoring, and adaptive management) rather than a more hands-off grant. The listing indicates an award ceiling of up to $20,000,000. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, suggesting a broad range of applicants could potentially apply, subject to standard USAID and U.S. government rules that typically apply to foreign assistance awards. The funding activity category is health, and the CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) number provided is 98.001, associated with USAID foreign assistance.

Finally, USAID/Guatemala notes that the eventual Cooperative Agreement will be awarded through a full and open competition, which generally means the agency plans to compete the award widely rather than limiting it to a narrow set of preselected entities. In practical terms, the key takeaway is that USAID is signaling a forthcoming HIV treatment and care strengthening award in Guatemala and is seeking brief, early input from the field about anticipated applicant interest and the practicality of any cost share expectations before releasing the final NOFO.

• The Guatemala USAID-Guatemala City in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Care and Treatment Cascade" 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 2017-06-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-06-28. (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 $20,000,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.

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