Strengthening Zoonotic Disease Prevention and Surveillance in Urban Animal Markets: A Focused Approach to High-Risk Populations in India

JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) implements the Tuberculosis Implementation Framework Agreement (TIFA), a project managed by the United States Department of State (DOS). Spanning eight years (2019–2027), this initiative builds on the U.S. Government’s investments in TB programming. In 2026, the project is expanding its scope to address additional health priorities under the America First Global Health Strategy.

JSI/TIFA will fund Global Health Security initiatives to contribute to India’s efforts to contain outbreak-prone diseases and emerging pathogens at their source. To support this, JSI/TIFA seeks an organization to pilot an intervention for Strengthening Wet Market Surveillance and Zoonotic Disease Prevention. Aligning with the NCDC’s National One Health Programme for Prevention and Control of Zoonoses (NOHPPCZ), the approach focuses on transforming market stakeholders into the first line of defense. This intervention will focus on comprehensive GIS mapping of wet markets in the targeted geographies, followed by a Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) assessment of personnel, sensitization of personnel involved in wet markets, and establishing health facility linkages for regular check-ups and surveillance.

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Section I: Contact Details

Organization name

Organization’s registered address

Applicant type:

Indian nongovernmental organization legally registered with FCRA.

International organization legally registered in India.

For-profit organization with mandatory registrations (PAN, TAN, GST number) and fulfilling all statutory criteria to receive foreign funds.

Foreign Contribution Regulation Act number

Goods and Services Tax number, if applicable.

Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number, if available (guidance for creating a UEI number to be provided).

Name and title of point of contact for applicant.

Mailing address of point of contact.

Telephone number of point of contact.

Email address of point of contact.

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Name and title of authorized signatory for grant.

Section II: Organizational Eligibility

Note your organization’s ability to meet the following:

The chief executive of the organization is willing to sign an agreement and receive funds from JSI, the Washington-based partner.

Yes

Your organization must present to a selection panel (virtual or in person) on the dates mentioned in the attached RFA.

Yes

Describe your organization’s recent (last 3 years) experience managing interventions aligned with the proposed scope of work or a similar scope of work.

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Describe your organization’s recent (last 3 years) experience providing services to the Government of India, specifying: 1) any previous work with the respective national programme at the central, state or district level; and 2) experience working with the National Program for One Health in Prevention and Control of Zoonoses and the National Urban Health Mission.

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Section III: Proposal Description

Describe your organization’s overall strategy for mitigating the risk of pathogen emergence at the urban-animal-market interface. How will the proposed intervention shift the operational paradigm from reactive post-slaughter food safety to proactive, site-specific pre-slaughter biosecurity and stratified risk management to reduce the "visibility lag" in detection?

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Describe your organization’s strategy for transitioning from generalized regulation to precision interventions within urban market environments. How will you leverage Market Welfare Associations (MWAs) to act as "peer-monitors" for biosecurity compliance, and how will you ensure standards are institutionalized by embedding site-specific regulatory checklists into inspection of wet markets by municipal officials?

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Describe your methodology for conducting comprehensive GIS mapping of urban wet markets to categorize them by their unique zoonotic risk profiles. How will you utilize spatial data, such as taxonomic diversity, species mix, and sourcing integrity, to develop a digitized "Risk Map" that informs city-specific biosecurity interventions?

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Detail the methodology for operationalizing site-specific "Trigger Lists" and SOPs for early warning signals. How will you capacitate personnel working in wet market – butchers, meat cutters / meat wrappers, poulterers, slaughtermen / slaughterers, fishmongers, fish handlers/processors, market porters / carriers, transporters, and municipal inspectors – to recognize sub-clinical animal illness, unusual mortality clusters, or atypical human signals for real-time reporting via digital platforms like the IHIP Community Reporting Tool?

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Describe the strategy for bridging the gap between the market ecosystem and formal occupational health surveillance. How will you ensure a "closed-loop" response by formalizing referral pathways for pilot serosurveillance of priority pathogens (e.g., CCHF, Brucellosis, Anthrax) and ensuring at least 75% of high-risk workers are linked to local health facilities for regular health checkup?

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Describe your organization’s experience in meeting technical timelines and the availability of key personnel with expertise in epidemic intelligence, One Health, and grassroots digital health integration. How will your team ensure the successful execution of this pilot to create a scalable "Biosecurity Blueprint" for urban local bodies, shifting the national posture from reactive response to proactive defense?

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