Global Health

Recent Program & Project POST

CAMRIS Announces New $79 Million Global Health Contract
7/16/2010

CAMRIS is an international development firm with more than 50 years of experience, with a long-standing presence in Global Health. CAMRIS' technical areas include providing expertise and support in the field of HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health/Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, TB, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, among others. CAMRIS' programmatic expertise includes program management, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, project design, research support and analysis and institutional support. Among our implementation strengths is the ability to rapidly deploy teams to the field, recruit the highest quality staff and consultants, develop collaborative relationships with USAID clients in Washington and overseas, creatively solve problems and organize complex logistics of technical assignments.

CAMRIS understands the demands of managing field activity and routinely implements multiple assignments quickly and simultaneously, requiring the fielding of many staff within tight timelines. The products of these assignments provide the basis for critical decisions affecting USAID’s global health programs. With this extensive endeavor, CAMRIS assists USAID with (1) laying out the groundwork for national health sector strategies, (2) improving country programs and (3) leveraging multilateral donors’ contributions. This effort culminates in improving the overall health and well-being of communities worldwide.

Among our extensive list of projects, we highlight the following:

• The Global Health Support Initiative-II (GHSI-II), funded by USAID, provides expert technical assistance to the Bureau for Global Health, regional bureaus, and overseas missions. Implemented by CAMRIS in partnership with IAP World Services, GHSI-II hires and manages up to 90 senior program and technical experts in support of USAID’s global health activities worldwide. Such activities include Maternal and Child Health, HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness, Population and Reproductive Health, Monitoring and Evaluation, Epidemiology, Contraceptive Security and Logistics, Strategic Planning and Communications. The scale of GHSI-II makes it an inherently complex project that requires an equally complex infrastructure. To ensure that all USAID requirements are quickly and effectively fulfilled CAMRIS prides itself in a rapid hiring turnaround while scoping out the highest qualified candidates. To this purpose, CAMRIS selects the candidate and takes charge of the hiring and on-boarding process, conducting employee orientation, processing employment and benefits enrollment paperwork most efficiently. In addition, CAMRIS supports and manages these experts throughout their tenure with GHSI-II.

• The GH Tech Project, funded by USAID, provides technical assistance to USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, regional bureaus, and overseas missions. CAMRIS is a major partner implementing about one-third of this five-year indefinite quantity contract. The project provides technical assistance in the areas of program development and design, evaluation, program management, and communications to assist the Agency in achieving its strategic objectives in health. GH Tech works across all global health technical areas, including HIV/AIDS, Family planning and Reproductive health, Maternal and Child Health, infectious diseases and health systems. Under the GH Tech contract, CAMRIS has carried out more than 425 assignments to date in more than 30 countries. CAMRIS oversees all technical aspects of contract performance and provides technical assistance and quality control for all project deliverables. In addition, CAMRIS is responsible for the majority of work, in preparing/refining scope of work; assembling technical teams; conducting the monitoring and evaluation processes; overseeing project implementation; and ensuring compliance with AIDAR, ADS, and Federal Travel Regulations.

• CAMRIS is a prime contractor under the TASC3 IQC and provided experts to conduct a mid-term assessment of the USAID-funded Healthy Communities and Municipalities project in Peru. CAMRIS reviewed the project’s results to date, assessed the effectiveness of strategies and interventions, identified the project’s contributions to the achievement of USAID/Peru health objectives, and made recommendations for future improvements. Through the TASC 3 mechanism, the CAMRIS team provided USAID with access to high-quality, flexible, state-of-the-art technical assistance in a wide array of public health specialties. CAMRIS also provided a Data Quality Review and assessment for the Millennium Challenge Corporation Threshold Program in Peru under TASC3, which consisted of an anti-corruption and an immunization component.

• CAMRIS is a partner in the Monitoring and Evaluation to Assess and Use Results (MEASURE) Phase III Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), funded by USAID. CAMRIS oversees the execution of surveys in developing countries, building capacity, training and performing data analysis and monitoring and evaluation plans. MEASURE Phase III supports eight Program Elements: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), Malaria, Avian Influenza (AI), Other Public Health Threats (OPHT), Maternal and Child Health (MCH), Family Planning and Reproductive Health (FP/RH), and Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS). CAMRIS is currently working on surveys conducted in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Tanzania under MEASURE DHS. CAMRIS has also developed an important capacity building tool for local survey implementers, the MEASURE DHS Toolkit. The toolkit provides a mechanism for presenting MEASURE DHS material in one accessible place available online (MEASURE DHS website and Knowledge for Health –K4Health- Toolkits website), on CD, portable devices, USB (flash drives) and other mobile platforms. The goal is to provide implementers with an accessible and easy to use set of materials from survey design to dissemination of results.