PEPFAR Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Grant | 2025 PECO GRANT01

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The PEPFAR Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Grant is a competitive U.S. government funding opportunity announced by the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa through the PEPFAR Ethiopia Coordination Office at the U.S. Department of State. It supports community-driven efforts to monitor how HIV services are actually being delivered and experienced in Ethiopia, both at health facilities and within communities. The central idea is to put clients and affected communities in a stronger position to identify real-world service delivery problems early, document them with credible evidence, and push for practical fixes that improve access, quality, and outcomes.

At its core, the CLM program is designed to surface emerging or persistent barriers that prevent people from getting timely, respectful, and effective HIV services. This includes challenges related to service uptake and continuity of care, gaps in availability of services, issues with accessibility for different populations, and any systemic obstacles that reduce the quality of care. The program emphasizes continuous monitoring rather than one-time assessments, so that problems can be tracked over time and solutions can be measured. A major expectation is that monitoring results will be used for advocacy and accountability, helping health facilities and decision-makers respond with data-driven changes that lead to more client-centered HIV services.

A key feature of this opportunity is its focus on empowerment and meaningful community engagement. The grant frames community-led monitoring as a way to strengthen health literacy, encourage people to seek and use accurate information, and increase engagement with HIV service delivery systems. By supporting demand creation and structured advocacy, CLM is positioned as a mechanism for communities to request necessary changes and to hold the health system accountable for delivering high-quality HIV care. In practical terms, applicants are expected to gather both quantitative and qualitative information about HIV services, translate that information into clear findings, and use those findings to advocate for program and policy improvements that benefit clients and sustain the HIV response.

Eligibility is centered on Ethiopian organizations with strong community roots and demonstrated HIV-focused work. The solicitation invites proposals from registered local or national community-based organizations and civil society groups, including networks of key populations, associations and networks of people living with HIV, women-led civil society organizations, youth-led civil society organizations, faith-based organizations, and other affected community entities. Applicants should have a clear mission and ongoing activities related to HIV programming, and they should be capable of collecting and using service delivery data to advocate for change.

There are specific organizational capacity requirements. Applicants must be registered in Ethiopia with the Ethiopian Authority for Civil Society Organizations and must have active status, including up-to-date annual performance reporting and audit compliance. The opportunity also allows consortia or networks, as long as the involved sub-partners are similarly registered and active. The lead organization is expected to have both national and regional representation and an operational structure that includes office infrastructure and dedicated personnel to function effectively across multiple locations. Another major expectation is the ability to implement CLM through sub-grantees, meaning the recipient should be able to manage and support local community-led organizations as implementing partners, ideally including groups with prior CLM experience.

From the funding details provided, this is a discretionary grant (Funding Opportunity Number: 2025 PECO GRANT01) under a health activity category, with CFDA/Assistance Listing number 19.029. The award ceiling is listed as $600,000. The opportunity was created on June 19, 2024, and the original closing date is July 18, 2024. The sponsoring agency is the U.S. Mission to Ethiopia.

• The U.S. Mission to Ethiopia in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "PEPFAR Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Grant" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.029.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-06-19.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-07-18. (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 $600,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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