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Innovations for Reducing Plastics for a Cleaner Environment in India (INREPLACE) Activity The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to reduce plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, through improvements in solid waste management and advancing a plastics circular economy in selected regions of India. Through the activity, USAID/India will partner with the Government of India (GOI) to address the plastic pollution challenge by (1) improving plastic and solid waste management planning, infrastructure, and services; and (2) addressing the life cycle impacts of plastics and other materials by promoting a circular economy.
Family Planning and Reproductive Health - Host Country Strategic Information Capacity (FP) Family Planning and Reproductive Health - Establish and/or strengthen host country institutions management information systems (MIS) and their development and use of tools and models to collect, analyze and disseminate a variety of information related to the program element. These may include, but are not limited to MIS for government ministries or other host country institutions, needs assessments, baseline studies, censuses and surveys, targeted evaluations, special studies, routine surveillance, data quality assessments, and operational research. This sub-element may also include developing and disseminating best practices and lessons learned and testing demonstration and/or pilot models. Related training, supplies, equipment, and non-USG personnel are included.
Distribution, Reform, Upgrade and Management (DRUM) Distribution, Reform, Upgrade and Management (DRUM) program in Power sector
Family Planning and Reproductive Health - Policy Analysis and System Strengthening Family Planning and Reproductive Health - Create an enabling environment for effective FP/RH programs, including policy interventions (advocacy, dialogue, analysis, planning, finance, implementation, multisectoral engagement, attention to equity); organizational capacity building in human and financial resource management, and management and leadership of FP/RH programs. Also included are activities that aim to ensure the near- and long-term availability of high quality temporary and long-acting contraceptives including condoms for family planning and STI prevention, including direct financing, procurement, delivery, quality assurance, and strengthening country supply chains to manage and deliver contraceptives and condoms for public and private services.
Skill Development in Fecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM) (India):  Using FY 2020 funds, USAID/India will continue support for the Skill Development in Fecal Sludge and Septage Management Sector in Indian Towns and Cities (SDFSSM) activity which commenced in 2019.  The goal of the activity is to build the capacity of municipal officials, private sector players, NGOs and students in fecal sludge and septage management (FSSM) to improve Indians' access to safely managed sanitation services with a focus on municipalities in the Ganges River Basin.  The activity will also contribute to the development of a sanitation ecosystem which will strengthen private sector interest and investment which is fundamentally important for the development of the Indian sanitation sector.    ..More specifically, the activity implementing partner will conduct several different training courses on the operation and maintenance of fecal sludge treatment plants (FSTP), sewage treatment plants (STP) and sewer lines.  Courses will include a two-day safety training session for sanitation workers and plant operators, a one week course on the design and operation of fecal sludge treatment units; a three-month certificate course on the operation and maintenance of FSTPs and STPs; a one-year course on off site treatment methods including septic tanks, anaerobic reactors, planted gravel filters etc.; and a one-year course on urban water management including wastewater recycling and water conservation..
Managing India’s forests for biodiversity and human well-being in the face of global environmental change (India):  USAID will invest $250,000 in FY 2017 Sustainable Landscapes funds into this activity, as part of the Innovations for Forest Resources Management (InFoRM) program. Unsustainable extraction of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) leads to degradation of forests in India. The activity examines the ecological, social, and economic aspects of NTFP collection, especially the issue of genetic resource conservation and sustainable extraction. Italso looks at ways of enhancing the incomes of local communities by introducing new agricultural products and techniques, and through processing NTFPs. The FY 2017 funds will continue the work ito enhance the incomes of the forest-dependent communities and also initiate forest corridors restoration work to improve land cover and species composition in the Western Ghats landscape. This will enable the forests to regenerate and enhance their capacity to provide critical ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and water storage.
SAMVEG - Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Accelerator (India):  India accounts for 20 percent of the world's childhood deaths and 10 percent of maternal deaths, and is the most significant contributor to prematurity-related complications. This activity will contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which India advocated to accelerate in their G20 presidency year. The activity is aligned with the Global Strategy of Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality and Every Newborn Action Plan. The program will enhance the capacity of the GOI, the private sector, and civil society to work together to improve health outcomes.  .With FY 2023 funding, the MNCH Accelerator will launch and seek new approaches and innovations that boost the implementation of high-impact interventions for improving maternal, newborn, and child health. Emphasis will be placed on ensuring a continuum of care, from pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, delivery, postpartum care, newborn, up to children under five years of age. This mechanism will provide technical assistance to strengthen outreach to identify and fill implementation gaps in existing MNCH programs while demonstrating innovative practices and adapting new technologies, commodities, and protocols to improve maternal, newborn, and child health. With FY 2023 funds, it will strengthen quality assurance mechanisms; demonstrate new models of MNCH service delivery through front-line workers; improve uptake of low-cost proven interventions such as Family Participatory Care and Kangaroo Mother Care; build the technical skills of health care providers to address complications during pregnancy and delivery; strengthen referral and follow up systems; strengthen accountability for quality client-centered care; and mitigate the negative impacts of Pb poisoning. USAID will increase cross-sectoral collaboration and develop strategic partnerships in states that contain Aspirational Districts assigned to USAID by the GOI. USAID will integrate messages to create awareness about the effects of climate change..
Reproductive Health Access Promoting equity and reproductive health access for northeast India (Prerana)
Improved Health and Reduced Fertility in Targeted Areas Improved Health and Reduced Fertility in Targeted Areas of India
Every child counts! Scaling up a successful games based curriculum Despite significant gains in primary school enrollment, 125 million children worldwide are not developing basic math and reading skills. Many children in India are not ready for primary school: 43 percent of first graders in rural areas cannot recognize letters and 36 percent cannot recognize single-digit numbers (ASER 2018). Evidence shows that achievement gaps between low and high-performing children widen steadily over time, and few children who start behind ever catch up. To help prepare young children for success in primary school, MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Institute for Financial Management and Research in India (IFMR) (J-PAL South Asia) has applied decades of research on how children learn in order to develop a collection of simple, low-cost games that engage children's natural math capacity to improve their formal math skills. Proven effective by multiple randomized controlled trials, the Math Games program requires only 45-minute sessions, three times per week and can be effectively delivered by lightly-trained volunteers or government teachers. With support from Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), J-PAL South Asia is providing technical assistance and monitoring and evaluation support to expand the program in Tamil Nadu's public school system and partnering with state governments and the Indian NGO Pratham to expand Math Games to three more states (Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, and Punjab). In addition, DIV is supporting a long-term follow-up studyled by cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke of Harvard University and Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo of MITthat measures the persistence of the program's impact on the children from the original study. As Math Games continues to scale, it has the potential to significantly improve the foundational skills of 2.8 million children across these four states.
Greening the Grid (GTG) - Renewable Integration and Sustainable Energy (RISE) Initiative - DELOITTE Consulting (India):  .Renewable Integration and Sustainable Energy (RISE) will support the Indo-Pacific Vision and will be a critical instrument to support on Asia EDGE by focusing on energy infrastructure modernization and electricity market development. India plays a crucial role in South Asia's energy transformation and increasing regional energy integration due to its location and advancements in its power sector, as well as its potential electricity market that can be expanded to neighboring countries.  RISE will work with GOI institutions (national and sub-national grid operators and electricity regulators) to expand the use of, and improve the design of electricity markets by creating an effective intra-day (which will eventually become real-time) power market.  This will be achieved by developing centralized digital systems for transmission and open access; improving grid operating procedures and developing regulatory frameworks to develop new market products, for example, an ancillary services market for hydro power from neighboring countries. ..The mechanism will work on modernizing India's power system by demonstrating the value of batteries; assessing the technical and economic feasibility of advanced equipment for grid reliability (namely advanced inverters); and adding automatic controls to generators.  These efforts will expand access to affordable and reliable energy supply and create new market opportunities for technologies and services across the region.  The Industry Advisory Council established under the RISE initiative will extend its footprint to the region by facilitating U.S. and Indian entities to engage with policy makers in India and other South Asian countries to capitalize on market opportunities.  These interventions will render India's grid more advanced and reliable, which will translate to a robust South Asian grid. .. .
Innovations in Family Planning Services Technical Assistance Program Innovations in Family Planning Services Technical Assistance Program
Family Planning and Reproductive Health - Host Country Strategic Information Capacity (FP) Family Planning and Reproductive Health - Expand sustainable provision of family planning services in clinical and non-clinical programs including those in the public, private, NGO, and PVO sectors, and at the community level; activities that help improve the quality of the services and care provided, including pre- and in-service training of providers and application of evidence-based service-delivery norms and standards; and availability of a wide range of contraceptive options (temporary, fertility awareness methods, and long-acting and permanent methods) for men and women. Improve responsiveness to client needs, including the FP/RH needs of youth and men, women and girls affected by violence, refugees/IDP, and other underserved populations. Also included are activities that integrate FP and related RH care, including integrated FP/MCH services, especially provision of post-partum family planning, FP information within the ANC setting, and post-abortion care; FP, as appropriate, in the context of HIV/AIDS/STI prevention, treatment, care and support; fistula prevention and repair; prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence in the context of FP/RH programs; and programs that encourage abandonment of female genital cutting and other harmful traditional practices that are associated with negative RH outcomes.
Agricultural Sector Productivity - Research and Technology Dissemination Agricultural Sector Productivity - Support scientific research and technology, including biotechnology that generates improvements in production systems (crop, livestock, farm, forest, and fisheries), value-added products, and management practices leading to sustainable productivity gains, mitigation of risk, and income growth. It also supports dissemination and adoption of productivity-enhancing and post harvest technologies, value-added products, and management practices in these areas by reducing the barriers that may constrain male or female producers, processors, and manufacturers.
South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Integration (SARI/EI) South Asian Regional Initiative for Energy Integration
SAMARTH (Strengthen Abilities to Manage and Respond Effectively to HIV and AIDS in India) SAMARTH (Strengthen Abilities to Manage and Respond Effectively to HIV and AIDS in India) is a USAID funded project aimed at providing technical assistance (TA) to government and civil society partners to mount an effective response on HIV and AIDS issues in the Country.
Remote Sensing for Forest Renewal, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainable Hydrological Management (REFR refresh:this activity develops methodologies for efficient monitoring of forest carbon and water resources using state-of-the-art remote sensing tools and technologies.
COVID-19 Assistance Provide  technical support for the high COVID-19 economic impact on the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) to address their immediate financing needs and support long-term business resilience and recovery approaches. With USAID's support, grants will be made available to self-employed, informal sector workers and nano and micro enterprises whose livelihoods have been adversely affected by COVID-19. The use of these grants will be tied to productive, income-generation activities that can help them recover their livelihoods.
Reduced Vulnerability to Disasters in High-Risk Areas Reduced Vulnerability to Disasters in High-Risk Areas
Improved Education for Children with Disabilities The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to improve the quality of education starting at pre-schools to primary grades among children with disabilities. enable will focus on improving parental involvement, bringing together multiple stakeholders, and strengthening existing service delivery systems. the program's goal is to ensure that children with disabilities acquire foundational literacy and numeracy skills.
World Vision - TB World Visions programmes regularly conduct awareness programmes on TB and the importance of seeking timely treatment from the local Government hospitals and health care centres.
TB Health Action Learning Initiative (THALI) - World Health Partners (India):  This Project implemented by World Health Partners (WHP) aims to improve urban tuberculosis (TB) care and prevention by supporting the private health care sector in providing universal access to quality TB care. It's objective are: facilitating increased TB notifications from the private sector; encouraging private healthcare providers to adopt India's Standards for TB Care; community engagement; catalyzing innovations; and strengthening evidence-based decision making and coordination within government bodies. FY 2017 funded activities in the urban slums of Kolkata include; community engagement activities that increase TB awareness and encourage people to seek early diagnosis and care; ensuring adherence throughout the course of treatment including drug-resistant TB; enable access to existing social protection schemes and innovative financing mechanisms; and partnering with Global Fund TB project partners.
Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery - JHPIEGO (India):  Nurse midwives, when empowered with the appropriate skills and knowledge, are capable of delivering 87 percent of India's sexual, reproductive, maternal, and newborn health service needs. USAID, in collaboration with the GOI's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, is working to strengthen the foundation of pre-service education for nurse midwives. With FY 2017 funds, this project, implemented in six states (Haryana, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Delhi) will improve the quality of Pre-Service Education (PSE) for private sector nursing institutions to deliver high-impact reproductive, maternal, and newborn interventions at the facility and community levels. It will establish partnerships to leverage resources for inclusive and sustainable improvement in the quality of PSE of private sector nursing colleges. It will strengthen targeted private sector nursing institutions by introducing Indian Nursing Council standards to build the capacity of faculty and students.
Enhanced Opportunities for Vulnerable People Enhanced Opportunities for Vulnerable People
HIV/AIDS - Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission HIV/AIDS - Prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) including counseling and testing for pregnant women, ARV prophylaxis for HIV-infected pregnant women and newborns, counseling and support for maternal nutrition and safe infant feeding practices. PMTCT-plus ARV-treatment activities should be coded under Sub-Element 1.1.10 (HIV/AIDS Treatment and Anti-Retroviral Drugs) and Sub-Element 1.1.11 (HIV/AIDS Treatment and Anti-Retroviral Services).
HIV/AIDS - Palliative Care: Basic Health Care and Support HIV/AIDS - Basic health care and support, which includes: all clinic-based and home/community-based activities for HIV-infected adults, children, and their families that are aimed at optimizing the quality of life for HIV-infected clients and their families throughout the continuum of illness by the means of symptom diagnosis and relief, psychological and spiritual support, clinical monitoring, related laboratory services and management of opportunistic infections (excluding TB) and other HIV/AIDS-related complications (including pharmaceuticals), and culturally-appropriate end-of-life care. Basic health care and support also includes clinic-based and home/community-based support, social and material support such as nutrition support, legal aid, and housing, and training and support of caregivers. Clinic-based and home/community-based care and support activities for HIV-positive children within programs for orphans and other vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS would fall under sub-element 1.1.8 (Orphans and Vulnerable Children). ARV treatment should be coded under sub-element 1.1.10 (HIV/AIDS Treatment and Anti-Retroviral Drugs) and sub-element 1.1.11 (HIV/AIDS Treatment and Anti-Retroviral Services).
Integrated Nutrition and Health Project (INHP) Title II Supported Integrated Nutrition and Health Project (INHP)
Grand Challenges in Tuberculosis Control (India):  .India has been quick to adopt and use improved TB technologies and approaches beginning with the adoption and rollout of DOTS in the 1990s.  More recently, with USAID support through WHO, the GOI has adopted and is scaling up the use of the rapid TB test, GeneXpert, including in the diagnosis of drug-resistant TB in children. The Grand Challenges in TB Control Project has leveraged $5 million to match USAID's investment to crowd source innovations to: (1) promote treatment adherence through information and communication technology, (2) improve diagnostics, and (3) test models for engaging the private sector providers of products and services.  FY 2016 activities will support scaling successfully proven technologies that prevent, reach and cure TB in India.  This activity is co-funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) who will solely fund and support the transfer of all activities outside of India regarding best practices for other high TB-burden countries.  ...
Trees Outside Forests in India (India):  .USAID will invest FY 2023 funds in the Trees Outside Forests in India (TOFI) activity to expand the planting of trees outside of forests in India for enhanced provision of ecosystem services, especially carbon sequestration, and increased inclusive economic opportunities. This activity will help mitigate climate change by helping the GOI meet its nationally determined contribution target of creating an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tons of CO2 equivalent by 2030. This activity aligns with the U.S Government's strategy to address climate change through nature-based solutions and USAID will strengthen an enabling environment that promotes and incentivizes farmers and other tree growers to plant trees, through interventions such as rationalizing and tree felling and timber transit rules, developing certification standards for trees grown outside forest areas. USAID will also increase economic opportunities from trees outside of forests through interventions, such as increasing availability of high-quality planting material, demonstration of quality plantations, promoting wood-based value chains and financing.  Finally, USAID will also improve access to technical information necessary to ensure the success and viability of tree-based production systems outside of forests by establishing virtual call centers and innovation platforms led by local stakeholders. The activity will contribute to reducing pressure on forest reserves for timber, fuelwood and fodder. This activity aligns with the U.S Government's strategy to address climate change through nature-based solutions and will support the forestry pillar of the U.S.-India Climate Action and Finance Mobilization Dialogue.  .
South Asia Group of Energy (SAGE) (India):  The inter-agency agreement with the US-DOE will support the Indo-Pacific Strategy and Asia EDGE goals by providing U.S. intellectual capability and capacity to support Asia's energy and economic growth by undertaking relevant analysis and modeling exercises.  These analyses will present case studies and create evidence to support an enabling environment for regional power trade, modernization of utilities and advancement of modern technologies.  The analyses will also support private sector investments by generating information and know-how of the business opportunities for U.S. companies in the region.  It will also aim to address barriers to energy growth, including poor regulations, insufficient infrastructure, and lack of institutional and human capacity through technical assistance and capacity building. The labs will also collaboratively design and implement modelling exercises with local national institutions and think tanks such that they acquire skills and capacity to support analytical and intellectual thinking in the region. It will expand the collaboration with Indian National Institutions on solar energy, advanced bio-energy, improve test facilities for wind turbines and blades, technology certification, etc. Using U.S. DOE's lab expertise, the mechanism will work in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka) to achieve energy commerce growth, advanced market-based policies, market integration, private capital investments, and access to affordable, secure and reliable energy for all.  .
Increased Transparency and Efficiency in the Allocation and Increased Transparency and Efficiency in the Allocation and Mobilization of Resources in Selected States