MA Combipacks Scale-Up COF
Announcements
Due to recent significant reductions in our funding, we have made the difficult decision to close the MA Combipacks COF effective immediately. The MA Combipacks Cycle 12 application cycle scheduled to open April 9 will not proceed, and no new awards will be funded.
All active MA Combipack grants will be honored and managed through to completion.
Any updates will be posted here and distributed via community listservs.
Over the past four years, the MA Combipack COF awarded $11.5M across 48 grants in 15 countries, leaving a lasting impact on better health outcomes for women and girls. By requiring projects to align with government priorities, the fund helped ensure that product introductions were more effective, optimally sequenced, better integrated into country health systems, and more likely to achieve sustainable impact. We are grateful for the strong partnerships with grant recipients, local partners, and Ministries of Health, and proud of the impact achieved together in advancing access to safe abortion and MA combipacks.
This MA Combipacks Catalytic Opportunity Fund (COF) is a flexible pool of funds to support catalytic activities that advance government-led introduction and scale-up of quality MA combipack in low and lower-middle income countries. The MA combipack COF is supported by RHSC Safe Abortion Supplies Workstream.
Catalytic opportunities eligible for funding are broadly defined as activities that enable increased efficiency and/or effectiveness of product introduction and scale up OR activities that are critical to achieve successful product introduction and scale up​.
Opportunities should demonstrate how they will lead to tangible, time-bound results for scale up, specifically how activities will lead to a sustainable increase in availability of quality abortion care products and services, including MA Combipack.
Additionally, COF proposals must be government-endorsed to illustrate alignment to country priorities, propose activities that work within the legal framework of the country, and should leverage and build sustainable processes, systems, and resources for scale-up.
Resources
Interested in the projects and organizations supported by the COF? Click on the COF Project Directory for a list of past and current COF award recipients. This register includes project descriptions and points of contact. Please refer to this to ensure no duplication with existing or past awards, prompt local coordination with other partners, and build off of past work as relevant.