Support to Strengthen Community-Based Surveillance Activities for STRIDES Indonesia

Location:	District of Columbia
Posted:	May 15, 2026
Due:	Jun 10, 2026
Agency:	FHI 360
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	G - Social Services Q - Medical Services R - Professional, Administrative and Management Support Services X - Lease or Rental of Facilities
Solicitation No:	2026-016-Indonesia-CBS_RFP_02
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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