This is a 3 year USD 5.9 million project which involves conducting extensive international standard impact evaluations and cost-effectiveness analyses of both about-to-be-launched and ongoing health and health-related programs from the developing and transition world. Project participants will receive funds (ranging from US $75,000 to US $250,000) for conducting an international standard impact evaluation research project and will benefit from high-quality mentoring and interaction with international experts, networking with researchers from around the world, and development of program evaluation skills and expertise in best-practice impact evaluation techniques. The last date for submissions is November 17, 2006. The detailed call for proposals and guidelines for submission are available on: http://www.gdnet.org/middle.php?oid=1095
Jobs and Announcements
The European Commission now calls for proposals for clinical research projects to address the three diseases - HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB. Their focus is on developing new effective interventions against three diseases from early discovery through pre-clinical testing and up to early human trials.
International Development Research Centre and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada have announced the 2015 open call for proposals under the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund. With a strong focus on taking effective, pilot-tested innovations to a wider scale of use and application, this call will fund outstanding research-for-development projects that promise consistent and meaningful development outcomes (i.e. reaching important numbers of end-users) by testing, demonstrating and effectively scaling up models, delivery mechanisms, and approaches. This is an open, competitive call for proposals, and will fund projects submitted by strong partnerships between research, development, private sector, and other organisations from Canada and from eligible countries.Projects are anticipated to begin in October 2015. The size of the projects funded by this call will be in range from CA$0.5 to $1.5 million.
The aim of this new initiative of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety is to stimulate research in patient safety worldwide by providing funding for small research projects. It is envisaged that the initiative will also contribute to building local research capacity as well as help raise awareness about patient safety issues. Proposals to identify, develop and/or test local interventions for improving patient safety, as well as studies on the cost-effectiveness of risk-reducing strategies, are invited. Funding will be available to support up to 30 projects to begin in 2009. Grants of between US$10,000 and US$25,000 per project will be awarded on a competitive basis. The grants will target well-defined research projects that can be completed within 12–18 months. Research in all methodological and clinical disciplines that address patient safety is encouraged. The proposed studies may be conducted in any health-care setting. Research to be conducted in developing countries and countries with economies in transition is particularly encouraged. The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2008.
The Southern Africa Trust invites submission of concept notes from eligible organisations for work that addresses the RISDP and strengthens SADC national committees, in application for grants. Through this call the Trust aims to promote greater awareness of the RISDP and encourage analysis and action that strengthens its regional ownership and effectiveness.
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is issuing a competitive Call for Proposals (in collaboration with The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada) to strengthen health systems, promote civic engagement, and make research matter. This collaboration aims to support the integration of political, economic, social and policy analysis into research on public health and health care systems and policies in Eastern and Southern Africa. Only proposals focusing on this region will be considered.
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the Open Society Initiative for East Africa (OSIEA), and the Open Society Institute’s (OSI) Public Health Programme are requesting proposals from coalitions of women’s rights and HIV/AIDS organisations in southern Africa that wish to develop proposals for submission to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria addressing the specific vulnerabilities of women and girls. A detailed proposal must be submitted to the Global Fund that outlines and estimates costs for specific, evidence-based interventions to improve women's and girls' access to health treatment, educate them about HIV and AIDS, meet their sexual and reproductive health needs and promote their human rights.
With funding support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, announces a call for proposals for a new intervention targeting support to doctoral schools and rebuilding scholarly communities in the social sciences and humanities in African universities. The overall goal is to engender a generation of academics and knowledge that can enable the people of the continent critically (re) imagine and (re) create better, freer, more sustainable, and more inclusive communities and worlds. Proposals to be supported under this call are those submitted by individual/ groups of graduate/doctoral schools, SSH faculties, including research and teaching units dealing with higher education studies. Proposals should focus on issues to do with curricular reform, doctoral student supervision practices and mentoring of faculty in graduate supervision; interventions to rebuild/recreate scholarly infrastructures and academic communities through holding faculty seminars, strengthening faculty journals and conferences, systems to recreate strong workshop and seminar cultures; support for scholarly writing and academic publishing workshops especially targeting doctoral students and early career academics.
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research in collaboration with the WHO Department of Service Delivery and Safety, Canada’s International Development Research Centre and the Rockefeller Foundation, is launching a new research program focused on the role of non-state providers in strengthening health systems towards the achievement of Universal Health Coverage. Research funded under this call must contribute to answering the research question: What are the factors that have enabled or hindered interventions by governments to engage non-state providers in strengthening health systems towards the achievement of Universal Health Coverage and what are the reasons for it? Between 8-12 proposals will be awarded amounts of up to US$ 120,000 depending on the context in which the study is taking place. The Principal Investigator must be a researcher in an institution based in a low or middle income country. further detail and application procedures can be found on the website for the call.
The United Nations Democracy Fund invites civil society organisations to apply for funding for projects to advance and support democracy. The thematic categories for applications are: democratic dialogue and support for constitutional processes; civil society empowerment, including the empowerment of women; civic education and voter registration; citizen’s access to information; participation rights and the rule of law in support of civil society; and transparency and integrity. The selection process is expected to be highly rigorous and competitive – last year, fewer than 70 project proposals were selected out of more than 2,100 received. UNDEF funding ranges from US $50,000 to US $500,000, with most projects in the mid-range. It is anticipated that the vast majority of applicants and short-listed project proposals will emanate from local civil society organisations.