Equinet Grants/Awards: Paper On Poverty- Equity And Health In Southern Africa. Closing date for applications: November 1 2001
The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) has played a role over the past three years in highlighting issues of equity in health in southern Africa. It does so by networking professionals, civil society and policy makers to promote policies for equity in health, undertaking research, initiating conferences, workshops, and discussions through the internet, and providing inputs at the SADC forums. Noting the already significant work taking place on poverty, poverty reduction strategy papers and the links to health, and equally the strength of policy commitment to equity in health, and noting work already done by EQUINET in this area (which will be provided), EQUINET seeks to commission a paper to inform policy and research work on poverty, equity and health in southern Africa. Time frame: Six months, with an expected work time of three months.
Jobs and Announcements
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) has launched an African Diaspora support to African Universities program. This call for proposals targets academics based in African universities, and those in the Diaspora within Africa and outside Africa (Europe, North America, Canada, Australia), in the SSH, both of whom have attained their PhDs in the last five years, or are at the advanced stage of their PhDs, to submit proposals for post-doctoral research, preferably, but not exclusively on issues related to one of the following themes: The African academic Diaspora and the revitalisation of Higher education in Africa; Current trends in economic theorisation on African social and economic development; The Social Sciences and the Place of African Higher Education in the World; African Citizenship, migration and economic mobility within and outside Africa. Individual applicants selected under this call will be invited to attend a methodological workshop in the early stages of implementation of their research projects.
As many technologies and much knowledge are proprietary in nature and form the subject matter of patents owned by foreign entities, a key national policy instrument is the intellectual property rights regime. How it reflects and balances relevant international commitments with the goal of advancing the economic and social rights of its citizens is crucial in promoting their best interests. This is a Call for Proposals on how developing countries can access technologies and information contained in existing patents to enhance innovative research at the national level. This call for proposals is limited to developing country institutions. Six grants of approximately $75,000 Canadian will be made after the close of the competition on November 30, 2007.
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, in collaboration with the Oslo Satellite of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care (EPOC) Group, the EPPI-Centre, Institute of Education, London, and the Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, wishes to award grants to four institutions in low and middle income countries in order to: develop capacity in low and middle income countries (LMICs) for the conduct and packaging of systematic reviews of health policy and systems research relevant to these countries; conduct reviews within three main thematic areas; further develop methodologies relevant to systematic reviews of health policy and systems research in LMICs. The closing date for applications is 19 January 2007.
The Wellcome Trust and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research recognise the importance of using health research evidence in policymaking. This joint call for proposals is focused on low income countries and intends to build much needed capacity to strengthen links between research and policy making. Proposals are invited from groups based in low income countries to: Develop and implement innovative interventions that enhance policy maker capacity and/or civil society capacity to employ health policy and systems research evidence in policy making and policy dialogue; and conduct rigorous evaluations of the strategies employed. All proposals must address both of these objectives. Brief expressions of interest should be submitted to the Alliance by 16 January 2009.
The Poverty and Economic Poverty (PEP) Research Group is looking for proposals for 2010, valued up to Can$50,000 each. PEP provides financial and scientific support to teams of researchers in developing countries studying poverty issues. Its specific aims are to better understand the causes and consequences of poverty, propose pro-poor policies and programmes, improve the measurement and monitoring of poverty, strengthen local research capacity in poverty issues, develop new concepts and techniques for poverty analysis. To maximise capacity building, PEP favours teams consisting of at least one senior member supervising a gender-balanced group of junior researchers. All team members must originate from and reside in a developing country during the course of the project. Grants are awarded in four programmes: community-based monitoring systems; modeling and policy impact analysis; policy impact evaluation research initiative; and poverty monitoring, measurement and analysis. Decisions will be communicated by 30 April 2010.
The Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa program is launching a call for proposals for the selection of Health Policy and Research Organizations. This program is funded by Canada’s Global Health Research Initiative, a collaboration ofForeign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and IDRC. Organizations (or the lead organization of a consortium) must:
• be a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization legally founded and registered as an independent entity in the country of operation. Only non-partisan and not-for-profit organizations can be included in a consortium.
• be an African organization. United Nations agencies and international organizations based in Africa or overseas are ineligible to be the lead organization or to be part of a consortium.
• support a health policy development and implementation mandate through knowledge brokering, analysis, and research.
• work in at least one of the targeted countries and demonstrate willingness and capacity to expand their work in all the other targeted countries in the selected HPRO region (East or West).
The Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa program is launching a call for proposals for the selection of Health Policy and Research Organizations. This program is funded by Canada’s Global Health Research Initiative, a collaboration of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and IDRC. Sub-Saharan Africa is the program’s region of focus, targeting these nine countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, and Tanzania.
The mission of the International Women's Programme (IWP) of the Open Society Institute is to use grant-making and programmatic efforts to promote and protect the rights of women and girls in priority areas around the globe where the principles of good governance and respect for the rule of law are absent or destroyed because of conflict. IWP seeks to promote the advancement of women’s rights and gender equality in law and practice, and the empowerment of women to ensure participation in the democratic processes. Organisations can apply for one- to three-year grants, ranging from US$25,000 to US$200,000. The deadline for proposal submissions is 7 July 2008.
The Canadian International Development Agency’s (CIDA) Partnerships with Canadians Branch (PWCB) is launching a C$75 million call for projects over $500,000 to take a comprehensive and integrated approach to address maternal, newborn, and child health, under its Partners for Development Programme. Projects must align with the elements and principles of Canada's contribution to the Muskoka Initiative, which will focus its efforts along three key paths: strengthening health systems to improve health service delivery at the district level by training more health workers and expanding access for mothers and children to needed health care facilities and interventions; improving nutrition by increasing access to healthy and nutritious food and needed nutritional supplements that help reduce mortality; and addressing the leading diseases and illnesses that are killing mothers and their children. Projects must be implemented in eligible countries with high rates of maternal and child mortality. Eligible countries in the East, Central and Southern African region are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This call will fund projects from Canadian organisations in partnership with organisations in developing countries.