Support to Strengthen Community-Based Surveillance Activities for STRIDES Indonesia

Request for Proposals
Request for Proposals for Technical and Operational Support to Strengthen
Community-Based Surveillance Activities for STRIDES Indonesia
Solicitation Number: 2026-016-Indonesia-CBS
To: Prospective Organizations
From: FHI 360 STRIDES Project Management Team
Contract Title: Support to Strengthen Community-Based Surveillance Activities for STRIDES
Indonesia
Location: Two provinces (selected from West Java, Central Java, and Banten Provinces),
Indonesia
Date Issued: May 15, 2026
Questions Due: May 20, 2026, 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time
Responses Posted: May 22, 2026, 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time
Submission Deadline: June 10, 2026, 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time
Submission Email: STRIDESProcurement@fhi360.org
The Strengthening Infectious Disease Detection Systems (STRIDES) Activity, implemented
by FHI 360, invites qualified organizations to submit proposals to support the
implementation of global health security (GHS) activities in Indonesia. STRIDES is a U.S.
Department of State-funded global initiative designed to strengthen national and
subnational systems to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats.
In Indonesia, STRIDES is implemented in close coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture
(MOA), the Ministry of Health (MOH), and key national and international partners. The
Activity places particular emphasis on strengthening animal health systems and zoonotic
disease detection, recognizing the critical role of the animal health sector in preventing and
responding to emerging infectious and zoonotic disease threats. Through a One Health
approach, STRIDES supports enhanced coordination across human and animal health
sectors to improve early detection, information sharing, and rapid response to priority
zoonotic diseases.
STRIDES is structured around four core objectives:
1) Objective 1: Strengthen detection capacity and systems at the national and
subnational level for both human and animal laboratory networks and increase
access to quality laboratory services for diseases of public health importance.
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2) Objective 2: Develop sustainable surveillance systems, using event-based (EBS) and
indicator-based surveillance (IBS) systems to detect events of significance for public
health and health security.
3) Objective 3: Providing targeted technical and operational support during
outbreaks, including surge assistance to laboratories and surveillance systems.
4) Objective 4: Provide targeted technical and detection assistance during an
outbreak.
This Request for Proposals (RFP) focuses on strengthening early detection of priority
zoonotic diseases and emerging infectious diseases through enhanced surveillance and
coordination, particularly at the frontline and community levels. The scope of work is
designed to support the development of integrated, multisectoral systems that enable
timely identification, verification, and response to public health threats, with a strong
emphasis on alignment with MOA-led animal health systems and coordination with MOH
and other global health security actors.
Activities under this scope will include assessing essential competencies among human and
animal health frontline workers and volunteers, developing simplified cross-sectoral
competency frameworks, and designing and piloting foundational training materials
focused on outbreak detection and response. The work will also strengthen community-
based surveillance systems, including reporting pathways between animal and human
health sectors, and promote improved risk assessment, biosafety practices, and early
warning systems.
Implementation will be carried out in close collaboration with national and subnational
authorities, as well as academic institutions and technical partners, to ensure alignment
with Government of Indonesia priorities and to support sustainable strengthening of
surveillance and response systems.
Indonesia Country Context
Indonesia is pursuing an ambitious agenda to strengthen national health security amid
complex geographic, demographic, and institutional challenges. As the world's largest
archipelagic nation, with more than 17,000 islands and a population exceeding 275 million,
Indonesia faces inherent vulnerabilities in detecting and responding to emerging infectious
diseases. Its strategic location between two continents and two oceans makes it a major
hub for global trade and travel, while also increasing exposure to transboundary health
threats. Rapid urbanization, high population mobility, intensive livestock production, and
frequent human-animal interactions further elevate the risk of zoonotic disease
emergence and spread.
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The 2023 Joint External Evaluation (JEE) highlighted that Indonesia made important
progress since its first assessment in 2017, particularly in coordination mechanisms,
laboratory systems, and surveillance. However, significant capacity gaps remain across
prevention, detection, and response. Challenges persist in specimen referral systems,
workforce development, and emergency operations. Indonesia's decentralized governance
structure, while enabling local adaptation, creates variability in subnational capacity and
complicates coordination, data integration, and timely reporting. Laboratory systems
remain unevenly resourced, particularly in remote provinces, where constraints in sample
transport and cold chain systems continue to impact timely detection and response.
Despite these challenges, the Government of Indonesia has demonstrated strong political
commitment to advancing global health security. The country updated its National Action
Plan for Health Security (NAPHS), conducted JEEs in 2017 and 2023, and continues to
strengthen multisectoral coordination under the leadership of the Coordinating Ministry
for Human Development and Culture (Kemenko PMK). Collaboration among the MOH,
MOA, and Ministry of Environment and Forestry has expanded, reflecting a growing
commitment to a One Health approach. Efforts to strengthen antimicrobial resistance
(AMR) programs, expand field epidemiology training, and deepen partnerships with
development partners further underscore Indonesia's commitment to strengthening
preparedness and response systems.
However, key bottlenecks remain. Fragmented data systems, limited biosafety and
biosecurity (BSS) capacity, and under-resourced health emergency operations centers
(HEOCs) continue to constrain rapid and coordinated response. Sustaining laboratory
functionality, ensuring supply chain continuity, and institutionalizing preparedness
mechanisms at provincial and district levels remain critical priorities.
A key gap identified under the STRIDES Indonesia workplan is the limited capacity for early
detection at the community level, particularly for zoonotic diseases occurring at the
human-animal interface. Strengthening community-based surveillance (CBS) is essential to
improve the timeliness and sensitivity of surveillance systems and ensure that signals
detected at the community level are effectively linked to district, provincial, and national
response systems.
In addition, improving the timeliness of detection, notification, and response remains a
critical priority. The 2023 JEE identified continued gaps in surveillance (D1.1), reporting
systems (D1.2), laboratory diagnostic capacity (D2.1), and multisectoral coordination and
response (R5), particularly at subnational levels. Indonesia continues working toward
strengthening performance against global benchmarks such as the 7-1-7 target, which will
require improved coordination, data flows, and timely detection and response across
surveillance, laboratory, and response systems.
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In this context, STRIDES supports the Government of Indonesia to strengthen multisectoral
surveillance coordination, including platforms such as TIKORDA, and to build capacity
among frontline human and animal health actors. The Activity also promotes community
engagement and risk communication to improve awareness, reporting, and response to
zoonotic diseases and emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). Through a One Health
approach, STRIDES aims to strengthen coordination between MOA-led animal health
systems and MOH-led public health systems, ensuring more integrated detection and
response mechanisms.
Community-based surveillance is positioned as a complementary layer to formal
surveillance systems, enabling earlier detection and reporting through trained community
actors while reinforcing linkages to existing government systems. By strengthening
coordination across sectors and levels of the health system, STRIDES contributes to a more
resilient and responsive national system capable of detecting and responding to public
health threats in a timely and effective manner.
Technical support to design, operationalize and implement a functional community-
based surveillance system in priority districts: Subcontract Implementation
Approach and Scope of Work
Contractors are invited to propose a technical and financial approach to implement the
scope of work and achieve the intended results outlined in this RFP. Proposals should
reflect the contractors' institutional strengths, technical expertise, and operational
presence in Indonesia. Consortium applications are encouraged where partners
demonstrate complementary expertise, clearly defined roles, and strong coordination and
governance arrangements.
This scope of work contributes to STRIDES Objective 2: develop and enhance event-based
and indicator-based surveillance systems for timely detection of public health threats.
Within this objective, STRIDES seeks to strengthen early detection systems at the
community level, with a particular focus on zoonotic diseases and EIDs occurring at the
human-animal interface.
STRIDES Indonesia will engage a local subcontractor to design, operationalize, and
implement a pilot of a functional community-based surveillance system in priority districts.
This pilot will serve as a critical extension of formal surveillance systems, enabling earlier
detection, reporting, and response to priority health threats - and demonstrate the
potential for further scaling this approach across additional provinces. The approach will
emphasize integration with MOA-led animal health systems and coordination with MOH
systems, ensuring a coherent and multisectoral One Health approach to surveillance and
response, with a goal of integrating CBS within national frameworks.
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STRIDES Indonesia's pilot CBS system is expected to improve early detection and reporting
of priority zoonotic and emerging disease events; strengthen community awareness, risk
behaviors, and reporting practices; establish clear and functional reporting pathways from
the community to district and provincial levels; and enhance multisectoral coordination
and data use at subnational levels.
Under the direction of the STRIDES Indonesia team, the selected subcontractor will be
responsible for piloting CBS activities, including system assessment and design, training,
and reporting. Implementation will focus on two STRIDES priority provinces (selected from
West Java, Central Java, and Banten) with one to two priority districts per province. The
subcontractor will lead implementation at community and district levels, while STRIDES
Indonesia will provide technical oversight, quality assurance, and coordination.
Government counterparts, including the MOA, MOH, and subnational authorities, will play
a central role in ensuring alignment with national systems and sustainability of the
approach.
The scope of work includes several interrelated components. First, the subcontractor will
adapt and use existing STRIDES assessment tools to rapidly assess existing community-
based surveillance operations as to their current implementation and integration within
existing government systems. Second, based on this assessment, the subcontractor will
design and operationalize a community-based surveillance system aligned with existing
MOA and MOH surveillance frameworks. This will include designing a pilot CBS approach
and defining priority diseases and events, developing standardized case and event
definitions, and establishing clear reporting and referral pathways from the community to
district and provincial levels. The results of the rapid assessment and the proposed CBS
design will be reviewed by STRIDES Indonesia and presented to U.S. and Indonesian
government counterparts to ensure alignment with existing systems and for validation and
approval.
Third, following approval of the proposed CBS system pilot, the subcontractor will lead
comprehensive capacity strengthening efforts across the targeted communities. This
includes identifying and training community-level actors, such as community health
volunteers (kaders), animal health workers, community leaders, and other frontline actors,
to detect and report priority events, as well as CBS supervisors at the provincial and district
levels who will oversee CBS implementation. The subcontractor will develop and deliver
standardized training modules covering detection, reporting, and response, and will
strengthen the capacity of district and provincial authorities to receive, verify, and act on
CBS alerts. In addition, training for CBS supervisors at the provincial and district levels will
include ensuring routine reporting of community-detected events through agreed national
systems, maintaining minimum standards for data quality and confidentiality, supporting
verification and referral of reported events, and facilitating the use of CBS data for local
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decision-making, surveillance performance monitoring, and response planning. The
subcontractor will also design materials to support the supervision and quality assurance
of CBS activities.
Fourth, the subcontractor will design and implement risk communication and community
engagement strategies. These activities will focus on increasing community awareness of
priority zoonotic diseases and EIDs, promoting safe animal handling practices, and
encouraging early reporting behaviors. Engagement with community leaders, local
authorities, and relevant stakeholders will be essential to ensure uptake and sustainability
of CBS activities.
Fifth, following training, the subcontractor will begin overseeing implementation,
supervision, and quality assurance of CBS activities. This includes deploying CBS systems in
target communities, ensuring the functionality of reporting pathways, and establishing
quality assurance mechanisms to monitor data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness,
and potentially supporting initial supervision visits. Particular attention should be given to
ensuring that signals detected at the community level are rapidly escalated through the
system to support alignment with 7-1-7 targets.
Finally, strong coordination will be required across all levels. The subcontractor will work
closely with MOA, MOH, subnational authorities, and STRIDES Indonesia, and will actively
participate in coordination platforms such as TIKORDA. All activities must be aligned with
national strategies and coordinated with other partners to ensure complementarity and
avoid duplication.
Through this approach, STRIDES aims to strengthen integrated, multisectoral surveillance
systems that improve the timeliness, sensitivity, and effectiveness of early detection and
response to zoonotic and emerging disease threats in Indonesia.
Deliverables
The subcontractor will be responsible for delivering a set of technical, operational, and
reporting outputs aligned with STRIDES Indonesia Objective 2: strengthen event-based and
indicator-based surveillance systems for timely detection of public health threats.
Deliverables are designed to support the development and implementation of a functional
CBS system that enhances early detection of priority zoonotic diseases and EIDs under a
One Health framework, with strong alignment to MOA and MOH systems.
Key deliverables will include:
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* Inception/start-up report (with validated provinces/districts, baseline indicators, and
detailed workplan);
* CBS system design document (overall CBS implementation strategy, including
priority diseases/events, case definitions, reporting pathways, alert verification
SOPs, cross-sectoral competency framework);
* A comprehensive CBS training package, including modules, training materials,
facilitation guides, and tools tailored to both human and animal health sectors;
* Risk communication and community engagement materials, designed to improve
awareness, reporting behaviors, and safe practices related to zoonotic diseases;
* Supervision, monitoring, and quality assurance tools to support implementation,
track performance, and ensure data quality and timeliness;
* Brief monthly progress reports documenting implementation status, challenges,
and results against agreed indicators; and,
* A final report summarizing implementation results, performance against indicators,
lessons learned, and recommendations for scale-up and institutionalization.
Performance indicators will be aligned with STRIDES Indonesia workplan priorities and
finalized during the inception phase in coordination with STRIDES and the MOA. The
subcontractor will at minimum report on indicators outlined in the STRIDES Activity
Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (AMELP) as relevant to activities. Where not applicable,
indicators should be designed in collaboration with STRIDES MEL staff. Data should be
submitted to the Indonesia STRIDES MEL Advisor on a quarterly basis. Illustrative
performance indicators may include:
* # of workforce members trained in event verification and investigation in STRIDES-
supported activities
* # of CBS focal points actively reporting priority zoonotic and emerging disease
signals in STRIDES priority provinces
* % of community-detected events verified within 48 hours
Proposed Timeline and Key Outputs Template
The subcontractor will propose a detailed implementation timeline as part of their
submission. The timeline below provides an illustrative framework, which contractors are
encouraged to refine based on their technical approach, operational feasibility, and
contextual knowledge of Indonesia.
1) Start-Up and Planning (Month 1): During the inception phase, the subcontractor
will conduct coordination meetings with STRIDES Indonesia, MOA, MOH, and
relevant subnational authorities to confirm priorities and implementation
arrangements. Priority provinces and districts will be validated, along with alignment
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to national surveillance systems and platforms (e.g., iSIKHNAS, EWARS, and
TIKORDA coordination mechanisms). The subcontractor will finalize baseline
indicators, assessment tools, and the monitoring and evaluation framework to guide
implementation.
2) Rapid Assessment and CBS Design (Month 2): During the early implementation
phase, the subcontractor will assess existing CBS systems and design and
operationalize the CBS pilot based on the assessment findings. This will include
developing and documenting an overall CBS implementation strategy, including
priority diseases/events, case definitions, reporting pathways, alert verification
standard operating procedures (SOPs), and a cross-sectoral competency framework
for frontline human and animal health actors. This phase will end with a
multisectoral coordination meeting in which assessment results and the CBS pilot
design are reviewed and approved by STRIDES Indonesia, MOA, MOH, and relevant
subnational authorities.
3) Pilot Technical Implementation and Capacity Strengthening (Months 3-5):
During the implementation phase, the subcontractor will lead CBS system capacity
strengthening efforts at community and district levels. This will include the
development of a comprehensive multisectoral training package, including both in-
person and, where appropriate, self-paced learning modules. The subcontractor will
also lead the design of risk communication and community engagement materials
in collaboration with community stakeholders to increase awareness of priority
zoonotic diseases and EIDs, promote safe animal handling practices, and encourage
early reporting behaviors.
Training will target both CBS implementers and their supervisors. Training topics
include detection, reporting, verification, and response to priority zoonotic and
emerging disease events. For supervisors, additional modules on data reporting,
data quality, and use of CBS data for local decision-making and community risk
communication will be included. At least one training pilot for CBS supervisors and
implementers will be conducted in selected districts, with iterative refinement of
tools, training materials, and operational approaches based on field feedback.
Following training activities, the subcontractor will support the start of CBS system
implementation, which includes supporting CBS supervisors and implementers
immediately following the training, including reinforcement of reporting pathways,
supervision mechanisms, and data reporting processes. Emphasis will be placed on
ensuring integration with existing government systems and strengthening
coordination between MOA-led animal health services and MOH-led public health
systems.
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4) Final Reporting, Knowledge Sharing, and Transition (Month 5): At the conclusion
of the implementation period, the subcontractor will submit a final technical report
to FHI 360. This report will include performance against indicators and lessons
learned. As this work is a pilot, key to this document is a transition plan that includes
recommendations for scaling and institutionalizing CBS systems across additional
provinces and within national frameworks to ensure that strengthened surveillance
systems and practices are maintained beyond the period of performance. The
subcontractor will also co-facilitate a presentation with STRIDES to MOA, MOH and
subnational authorities providing a summary of implementation highlights and next
steps.
Notes for Prospective Contractors:
* FHI 360 may issue one or more Cost Plus Fixed Fee Level-of-Effort Term
subcontract(s) to the successful contractor(s). Cost Plus Fixed Fee Level-of-Effort
Term subcontracts will specify a level of effort for a stated time period. If the
performance is considered satisfactory by FHI 360, the fixed fee is payable at the
expiration of the agreed-upon period once the level of effort specified in the
contract has been expended in performing the contract work. Contractors should
consider this when budgeting for staffing and personal costs.
* The timeline is indicative; contractor(s) may propose adjustments but must justify
them in their proposal. Contractors submitting for one or more objectives must
clearly delineate the objectives for which they are submitting a proposal and
budget.
QUALIFICATION
1. Offerors must be a non-governmental organization (NGO), community-based
organization (CBO), for-profit, or similar local organization that is legally registered
and operating in Indonesia. Organizations with a strong track record in technical
support in one or more of the following areas strongly preferred: adult learning and
curriculum development, multisectoral One Health workforce training, community-
level health worker capacity building, and/or competency framework design. Local
organizations that are locally owned and operated and U.S. small businesses
are strongly encouraged to apply.
2. Public International Organizations (PIOs) government or government-affiliated
entities, parastatal organizations, public universities, and multilateral organizations
to which the United States is not a signatory are not eligible to apply for or receive
awards under this RFP. Proposals submitted by such organizations will not be
considered.
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3. Offerors should have demonstrated technical and operational capacity across one
or more of the following areas:
* Improving disease surveillance systems, including both event-based and
indicator-based surveillance, with experience supporting surveillance at national
and subnational levels. Contractors should demonstrate familiarity with zoonotic
disease surveillance and integration of surveillance systems under a One Health
framework.
* Strengthening data systems, including the design and implementation of
systems for data collection, analysis, interoperability, and reporting, with a focus
on improving data use for evidence-based decision-making at multiple levels of
the health system.
* Providing technical and operational support during public health emergencies or
infectious disease outbreaks, including surge support to surveillance and
laboratory systems, and experience working within multisectoral coordination
mechanisms.
In addition, contractors should demonstrate experience working collaboratively with
government counterparts, including ministries responsible for animal health and
public health, and the ability to operate effectively within multisectoral coordination
platforms. Experience engaging community-level actors and strengthening linkages
between community, district, and national systems will be considered a strong
asset.
Finally, offerors must demonstrate proven experience in the design,
implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of programs of similar scope and
complexity, particularly within the context of GHS and One Health approaches.
Experience in Indonesia or comparable decentralized settings is strongly preferred.
4. Contractors must demonstrate experience working collaboratively with Government
of Indonesia counterparts at both national and subnational levels, including the
MOA, MOH, and relevant technical directorates (e.g., animal health services,
surveillance, and laboratory systems). Experience engaging with provincial and
district-level authorities, including District Health Offices (DHO), Provincial Health
Offices (PHO), and local animal health services, is essential.
5. Contractor(s) must have proven systems in place to ensure the timely and high-
quality delivery of technical services, materials, and reports as outlined in the scope
of work.
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