The Southern Africa Trust is seeking a consultancy to undertake an assessment of the impact of financial aid flows on the policy work of regional civil society in Southern Africa as part of its ongoing work to engage with donors on financial aid flows to Southern Africa but also as a way of strengthening its work around supporting increased aid flows to civil society for them to be able to effectively to influence policy to overcome poverty. Expressions of interest must be submitted by 28 May 2008, 15.00pm
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Call for Expression of Interest: Impact assessment of financial aid flows to civil society in southern Africa
Southern Africa Trust, 21 May 2008
Further details: /newsletter/id/33178
Call for expressions of interest on Heightening Institutional Capacity for Government Use of Health Research Award
Deadline: 15 August 2018
Applications are open for Heightening Institutional Capacity for Government Use of Health Research (HIGH-Res) Award. This is a joint call for proposals from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and Wellcome to enhance the capacity of ministries of health in lower-middle and low-income countries to use health research evidence in policy-making. This call will fund one consortium up to US$ 1,000,000 for a maximum duration of 36 months. The collaborating research or academic teams must be based at recognized institutions with the capacity to undertake high-quality research. This means an institution that possesses an existing in-house capacity to host a grant and can demonstrate an independent capability to undertake and lead on research programmes. Ministries of health must engage as implementing partners and are required to co-lead the consortium. Applications that include capacity building and comparison across several different institutions and/or countries are encouraged. The primary applicants must be based in at least developed, lower-income or lower-middle income country.
Call for Expressions of Interest: Assessing efforts towards universal financial risk protection in low- and middle-income countries
Deadline for submission: June 30th, 2009
The Alliance HPSR and the Health Systems Financing Department (WHO) are launching a new programme of work that aims to explore and compare country-specific experiences in developing and implementing universal financial risk protection, with a focus on the factors that have helped or hindered the expansion of financial protection mechanisms. We are interested in learning both from positive and negative experiences. It is envisaged that the final product of this programme of country case-study work will be a book encompassing all of the case-studies, and highlighting cross-cutting policy lessons and issues that are applicable beyond the case-study countries. Research teams are encouraged to submit Expressions of Interest (EoI) by June 30th, 2009. These EoI will be technically reviewed. Research teams that submit the most promising EOI will be invited to a proposal development workshop, where applicants will work with technical advisers to develop proposals for 12 to 18 months of work. Researchers in low and middle income countries are eligible to apply to this call for proposals. See the website for more information
Call for expressions of interest: Health policy and systems research in the field of access to medicines in low- and middle-income countries
Deadline: 18 June 2012
The World Health Organisation’s Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is calling for expressions of interest in the topic of access to medicines in low- and middle-income countries. Proposed research should explore the connections between medicines and three other functions of health systems: health financing, governance and health information. Three core questions have been identified for this call: 1. In risk protection schemes, which innovations and policies improve equitable access to and appropriate use of quality medicines, sustainability of the scheme, and financial impact on beneficiaries? 2. How do policies and other interventions into private markets impact on access to and appropriate use of quality medicines? 3. How can stakeholders use information and data routinely collected and available in the system in a transparent way towards improving access to and use of quality medicines?
Call for Expressions of Interest: Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development
UNRISD: Call closes Sunday 25 November 2012
UNRISD invites scholars with a proven track record in research and publication on issues related to domestic resource mobilization, taxation, public finance and governance, aid and political economy, to submit an expression of interest. Countries under consideration include (but are not limited to) Liberia, Uganda and Zimbabwe, and Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Expressions of interest are invited from potential country team coordinators who could lead, and put together, a team of researchers; and individual researchers who would be willing to join country research teams. Participating researchers will collaborate in developing a comparative methodology, undertake field work, draft reports and academic outputs, and engage in workshops, conferences, policy dialogues and other communication activities between January 2013 and December 2014.
Call for Expressions of Interest: Universities and Social Inequalities in the Global South
Deadline for Submission of Proposals: 10 March 2019, 23:59 CET
UNRISD invites expressions of interest from researchers to prepare papers that will feed into the development of a research proposal for a project on the relationship between universities and social inequalities in low- and middle-income countries. With the persistent and rising inequalities of present day encompassing not only income and wealth but also inequalities across race, gender, ethnicity and geographic region, it is critical to reinvent, reimagine and strengthen a wide range of policies and institutions that can play a role in overcoming inequalities. This call and the subsequent research project to be developed focuses on universities as one such institution. The project proposal will focus on the role of universities in reinforcing or lessening social inequalities in low- and middle-income countries. It will explore the following questions: What potential does higher education have today to increase social mobility, reduce inequality and contribute to the advancement of society through the production of knowledge and skills? Are institutions of higher education contributing to inequality rather than equality, and if so, through what specific actions and mechanisms? How can the transformative potential of such institutions be fully harnessed for overcoming inequality?
Call for Expressions of Interests: Consultants
Deadline: 30 January 2016
Formed in 2006, the One in Nine Campaign is a network of organisations and individuals driven by feminist principles and the desire to live in a society where women are the agents of their own lives, including their sexual lives. The Campaign supports and advocates for the rights of women who speak out against sexual violence as well as other survivors in five ways: Solidarity in Action and Building Feminist Activism, Feminist Knowledge Production and Research, Media Advocacy, Justice and Legal Transformation and Direct Action. The One in Nine Campaign is calling for application from all interested individuals/service providers in the following fields: Organisational Development, Strategic planning and reviews, Resource Mobilisation /Fundraising for NGOs, Research, Documentation (written and/or visual), Monitoring and Evaluation, Staff development/Team building, Creative Arts for social change (all art forms welcomed), Health and Wellness, Marketing (especially for small businesses, NGOs, Cooperatives) and Setting up and registering of Cooperatives. The organisation seeks to update its Consultants database and preference will be given to individuals who identify as Women and feminists and registered service providers that are led by Women.
Call for Expressions of Interests: Consultants
Deadline: 30 January 2016
Formed in 2006, the One in Nine Campaign is a network of organisations and individuals driven by feminist principles and the desire to live in a society where women are the agents of their own lives, including their sexual lives. The Campaign supports and advocates for the rights of women who speak out against sexual violence as well as other survivors in five ways: Solidarity in Action and Building Feminist Activism, Feminist Knowledge Production and Research, Media Advocacy, Justice and Legal Transformation and Direct Action. The One in Nine Campaign is calling for application from all interested individuals/service providers in the following fields: Organisational Development, Strategic planning and reviews, Resource Mobilisation /Fundraising for NGOs, Research, Documentation (written and/or visual), Monitoring and Evaluation, Staff development/Team building, Creative Arts for social change (all art forms welcomed), Health and Wellness, Marketing (especially for small businesses, NGOs, Cooperatives) and Setting up and registering of Cooperatives. The organisation seeks to update its Consultants database and preference will be given to individuals who identify as Women and feminists and registered service providers that are led by Women.
Call for feedback on the World Health Organization Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel: Background paper
All contributions welcome
The draft code sets out guiding principles and voluntary international standards for recruitment of health workers, to increase the consistency of national policies and discourage unethical practices, while promoting an equitable balance of interests among health workers, source countries and destination countries. Consistent with contemporary international legal practice, the initial draft of the code also aims to establish an international procedural structure to foster national dialogue, commitment and action on health worker migration. It does not aim to comprehensively address and resolve all of the complex substantive issues raised by the international recruitment of health personnel. Rather, its goal is to provide a straightforward framework and platform on which to launch negotiations. World Health Organization member states may potentially consider and elaborate more detailed national and international commitments in the final version of the code or in future international instruments. Feedback comments are invited on the World Health Organization paper on the code.
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Call for funding proposals: Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Deadline: 1 October 2010
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNFPII) is the advisory body to the United Nations Economic and Social Council for discussing indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights. It has a trust fund on indigenous issues relating to the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People. This Fund is now offering funding for non-governmental organisations for 2011. Projects can be proposed in the areas of culture, education, health, human rights, the environment and social and economic development. All projects should primarily be focused upon indigenous peoples and they should directly benefit them. The guidelines suggest that the project proposals should be developed by indigenous people, but in cases where non-indigenous organisations are submitting proposals, they should develop them with full participation, consultation and free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples, groups or committees receiving the benefits of the project.