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UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY FUND (UNICEF) has floated a tender for Study of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Rwanda. The project location is Rwanda and the tender is closing on 21 Feb 2020. The tender notice number is LRFP-2020-9155644, while the TOT Ref Number is 39884258. Bidders can have further information about the Tender and can request the complete Tender document by Registering on the site.

Procurement Summary

Country : Rwanda

Summary : Study of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Rwanda

Deadline : 21 Feb 2020

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 39884258

Document Ref. No. : LRFP-2020-9155644

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY FUND (UNICEF)
Email: jmudereva@unicef.org
First name: Josepha
Surname: Mudereva
Telephone country code: Rwanda (+250)
Telephone number: 0788469927
Telephone extension: 2781
Rwanda
Email :jmudereva@unicef.org

Tender Details

Tender are invited for Study of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Rwanda

Deadline : 21-Feb-2020 00:00 (GMT 2.00)

Published : 21-Jan-2020

Type of Notice : Request for proposal

Beneficiary Country/Territory : Rwanda

Reference : LRFP-2020-9155644

Description : 1 Background

Since August 2018, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been facing a large-scale epidemic of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, with importation to Goma and South Kivu provinces. Since the start of the outbreak in August 2018, there have been 3, 303 EVD cases reported and 2, 199 people have died (World health Organisation (WHO), 26 November 2019). Around 28 per cent of cases are children, a larger proportion than reported in previous outbreaks of Ebola. On 17 July 2019, WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in North Eastern DRC a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

As one of the most densely populated countries in Africa, and with high-quality transport infrastructure, Rwanda is at high-risk of rapid spread of EVD. In 2018, the Government of Rwanda (GoR) developed an Ebola preparedness plan and activated mechanisms to minimise the risk of importation. In partnership with UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, the Ministry of Health's Rwanda Biomedical Center conducted a rapid Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) assessment to gauge the level of public awareness about Ebola Virus Disease, as well as the prevailing attitudes and practices related to the disease. The interventions under the Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RC&CE) pillar of the National Contingency Plan have been largely informed by the results of this study.

Although Rwanda remains free of Ebola, it is still at r...