USAID’s current Child Blindness Program is a five-year (2018 - 2023), $17.5 million program managed by Integrative Sciences LLC, with technical support from the International Eye Foundation. The program utilizes a competitive Grants Under Contract (GUC) mechanism to provide funding to U.S. and Non-U.S. Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) to deliver high quality eye health services to children and other vulnerable populations in countries around the world.

USAID’s Child Blindness Program (CBP) began as a Congressional directive in 1991 to prevent and treat child blindness. Since that time, the U.S. Congress has provided over $1 million per year to USAID for the program. In recent years, the annual funding has risen, enabling CBP to expand its field reach and provide critical services to more children. To date, CBP has awarded approximately $29 million to more than 50 eye care and health NGOs to implement interventions worldwide, reaching over 7 million children.