About LEAP Global

The USAID Long-Term Exceptional Technical Assistance Project (LEAP Global) envisions efficient, effective infectious disease programs embedded in each country’s governing health body that have the right technical expertise necessary to tackle infectious disease epidemics. Project Technical Advisors (TAs) have that right expertise, bringing extensive experience and leadership in such areas as treatment, health financing, grants management, strategic planning, and monitoring and evaluation to the priority countries in which LEAP Global works. The project prioritizes hiring local country nationals to ensure that the expertise amplifies and embeds lived, contextual experience. 

To ensure that TAs have the support they need to carry out their roles, LEAP Global, through its Project Management Office, has created and employs straightforward, coordinated strategies and approaches that streamline TA onboarding, management, and support processes, always underlain by a collaborative, respectful, culturally sensitive customer service mindset. Job aids, including tools, trackers, and templates, facilitate smooth implementation, communication, monitoring, and evaluation. Continuous learning and quality improvement ensure that the project remains flexible and responsive to individual partner and TA needs and to any emergencies that may arise. And, a set of inter-linked operations and knowledge management systems enable team members, including TAs and USAID staff, to share and access the tools and information they need at the click of a button and encourage cross-TA dialogue and knowledge-sharing to generate innovative approaches to managing infectious diseases that can feed into and advance such programming across the globe.

By directly embedding the technical expertise within national programs, LEAP Global provides long-term, sustainable mentoring and capacity building for program staff, empowers host governments to lead and manage key aspects of their infectious disease portfolios, and improves coordination between USAID and the host governments. This approach supports USAID’s localization efforts and institutionalizes long-term sustainability. The map below shows the countries in which the project has embedded TAs.