# USAID Soroka

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/72068724rfa00008-usaid-soroka/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357551

> Madagascar USAID-Antananarivo offered grants of up to $7.5 million (at least $5.0 million) to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make one award worth $7.5 million in total. Applications closed on February 10, 2025.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | 72068724RFA00008 |
| Agency | Madagascar USAID-Antananarivo |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | February 10, 2025 |
| Award ceiling | $7.5 million |
| Award floor | $5.0 million |
| Expected awards | 1 |
| Total funding | $7.5 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 98.001 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligibility is restricted to Local entities and organizations that have received less than $25 million in USAID funding, at any tier, over the past five years; or for global health awards the organization has received less than $25 million in U.S. Government funding at any tier, over the past five years. For more information, see Section B.1. of the NOFO

## What the grant funds

SOROKA is a Malagasy word which constitutes the root of the verb “misoroka”, meaning “to prevent”, corresponding to the aim of surveillance. SOROKA can be the acronym of the specific objectives of the project: Surveillance, Operational Research, and Optimization of Knowledge-sharing for Action activity. The SOROKA activity is expected to be a $7.5 million award for five years from Oct 2024 to Sept 2029. SOROKA's main objective is to advance the health of the Malagasy people through improvements in capacity-building and coordination and execution of data collection, management, synthesis, and use for public health action. Following the RISE project, SOROKA will enhance local capacity and expand leadership within the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) to detect threats to global health security, and to plan and conduct emergency outbreak response. It will reinforce the country's capacity to plan, implement, and disseminate locally led research and evaluations, and increase public sector capacity to use epidemiologic and surveillance data for public health action. SOROKA will be the main activity of USAID/Madagascar’s Health Office for research on malaria, MNCH (mother, neonatal, and child health), WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), and GHS (global health security), for program evaluation, biological surveillance including AMR (antimicrobial resistance), emergency responses to health threats and institutionalization of epidemiology and laboratory data use for decision making. SOROKA will also provide targeted and need-based cross-sectorial training for the MOPH staff throughout its implementation. In general, SOROKA is intended to cover all HPN program elements, particularly malaria, MNCH, GHS and WASH.

## Questions people ask

### Is 72068724RFA00008 still open?

No. It closed on February 10, 2025.

### Who can apply for USAID Soroka?

Madagascar USAID-Antananarivo accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for USAID Soroka?

Closed February 10, 2025. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $7.5 million each. About $7.5 million in total for one award.

### Who has won USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees, Family Health International, Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The program made 4,233 awards worth $37 billion in that time.