EOI No. ASLM/ACDC/EOI/ RCoEBB /08/29/25

CLOSING DATE: 03 October 2025

INTRODUCTION

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Officially launched in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2017 as a specialized technical institution of the African Union, is Africa’s first continent-wide public health agency. Africa CDC envisions a safer, healthier, integrated, and stronger Africa, where the Member States can effectively respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases and other public health threats. The agency’s mission is to strengthen Africa’s public health institutions’ capabilities to detect and respond quickly and effectively to disease outbreaks and other health burdens through an integrated network of continent-wide preparedness and response, surveillance, laboratory, and research programs.

The risk of a catastrophic biologic event has ever been increasing due to globalization, increase in travel and movement of humans and animals and increase in technology. However, this is happening at a time when African Union Member States have limited to no capacity to deal with such events as documented by the World Health Organization (WHO) Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of 2016-2019and the Global Health Security Index report of 2021. In response Africa CDC in 2019 together with African Union Member States and its partners launched the Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative. Under this Initiative, the Africa CDC, is strengthening Biosafety and Biosecurity capacities of Member States to enable them to comply with international Regulations including International Health Regulations of 2005, Biological Weapons Convention, United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR 1540) and the multi-country Global Health Security Agenda Action Package 3 on Prevention.